Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-06-04

youth to improve. ReaulnS Shoa'd DC
done unanimously by the child we'll
trained in language, and should be
ENCOURAGED with all the skin a teach
er can display, so that 1t will not be
the drudgery Of school books, but the
! JOY OF the race to catch up with an
cestry and then forge ahead.
| Mathematics is nothing more than
applying language thinking to length
| time. mass and force, and making or
derby and expeditions our capacity for
graphing numbers and groups. II
involves both writing and reading, and
| then practice in consecutive symbols
and phrases. an exact language nf re-
lationships which is the basis OF all
| measurements and science. 1t Is the
best of all the disciplines for training
the sense of order and uncompromls-
ing truth.
Physical culture means active body
and mind, fresh air and moderation
in food. judgment and knowledge In
personal hygiene. from which flows
an ever-increasing capacity for work
and happiness. as muscle. brain, blood
and nerve pulse together in a splendid
! harmony which is also growing, eVOlv-
ing, changing and budding-which. In
Tennyson's words, Dungeons out OF all
within US that which not harms dis
; tinctive" womanhood and manhood.
These four great essentials OF char.
, aCter, body training, writing, reading
and figuring-as basis for human hab-
1t, no one can doubt are. the elements
Of thinking. Multiply technical sub
jects as we may, these underlie them
all, are apart from them all, and above
all things are external attributes OF
human evolution, both in Aristotle's
day and in ours. Therefore, it Is that
I insist on segregating them as dfsci-
pline s, to be administered collectively.
to be used by the pupil throughout
| life, with freedom to change only as
controlled by the habits for which
they are responsible.
There has been so much talk Of
individual training" the genius OF
each boy and girl treated separately.
that the modern pedagogue will shud-
der when he hears me reiterate col
lective teaching Of children In gram
mar and high school grades. The rea-
| sui ] HdIp I'll IL 10 CLutHCuLIS q ptuSSh-
cal one-eeonomy demands 1t as the
| best compromise. Mr.. Ford has de-
! veloped the greatest and most benefi-
cent automobile enterprise in the
world by making only one model which
has not been changed for years-ev-
erything of excellent material. every
thing standardized. and everything In
| large numbers with a resulting price
that provides large and larger num-
bers of people with facile transports
ticn every year. Now in teaching fun
damentals all of our teachers are poor
because underpaid, some are better
than. others, diversity Is fostered by
the hopeless struggle to give individ-
ual training, and with differences OF
teachers. differences of pupils. differ
ences of subjects chosen by the teach.
ers, and differences of subjects eho
sen by the pupils, we are like an au.
tomobile factory trying to serve the,
public with LA different models of
ars--nothing is excellent, nothing is
standardized, everything Is In small
numbers and the price Is ignorance
and degeneration instead of uplfft.
Put cut standard product in judg-
ment and habits and it will educate
itself and the community. ~ssE.;;.=
And here come back into the main
thread of this DISCOURSE standard
ICED human product of the evolved
peoples college will educate itself and
the community, will govern by cleo
ton the professional schools, and will
| use wisely its freedom to change at
maturity, so that you need have no
fear of backsliding, nor of standing
still. The present evil is the develop
ment of monstrosities in education,
like certain fossil shell-fish, which in
past time developed from age to age
spines. at first defensive, then orna-
mental, then bigger, and even OBJ
| structive to the life and movement
of the animal, until the species, was
killed off by competition with
forms more materially devel-
oped. The desire to experiment
in education ought never to have been
allowed to enter the years of child
hood where simple training of soul
and body was all that was needed.
Through the teachers, product Of the
changing school of life, there is bound
to creep in change aplenty. in the of.
ferings to children, without deliber-
ately throwing open any door to the
children's choice.
On the other hand what a splendid
freedom Is open to the young woman
or the young man who emerges from
the college of discipline. You Of the
graduating class have before you the
glorious chance to answer one ques.
ton: What is the essential happiness
of the educated human soul?I
Educational addresses ordinarily
say Maintain bright the afmor of
your forefathers." They harp on pre-
serving the past and preach the good
old days. The philosophy of change,
which from Darwin to Bergson has
swept over US and invigorated the hu-
man soul in this Goth century, recog-
nizes man as erring. Recognizes right
and wrong as changing with our needs
Recognizes that an educational sys.
tenn may plan to change itself as a