Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-12-02
COLLEGE CLUB CITESAUTHORITY
FOR CR|HCISMOF TEACHING PLAN

.of two years. The public recognizes
that ali which institutions can give is
carefully planned apprenticeship;
no amount Of scholarship or practise
teaching where the final responsible
~ rests on a second person can deter.
mine a master workman The public
means none other shall hold the hon
ored distinction Of teacher.
The Normal School Certificate
In the States the financial value of
even certificate is still 10 be deter
mined Just as The value OF a doctors
. license, by his own powers. With us
a normal school certificate, the lowest
standing given. Is sight draft on the
territory for an annuity OF $500; no
statute Of Limitation runs against IT,;
the school laws and usage OF the ter
ritory assure its acceptance A dip
Iona draws 1920 annually. the only
serious drawback 10 the investment
being that the drafts are not negoti-
able II is giit-edged investment; in
reference TO the capital invested, il
makes Eva al its best look like a
penny savings bank.
A persistent rrmor that the two re-
quests of the College Club constitute
an attack on the principal OF the nor
NAL school makes il seem wise to state
the following facts, found i'm the Of
fetal records of the department of pub
lie instruction
What Territory Can Do
1T is obviously impossible 20 eX-
pect the newer standard of training
in a commonwealth devoid OF high
schools or but scantily supplied. But
from It's very start the Normal school
has had a small group of young wom-
en-, drawn from the best type Of island
homes, who have taken our high school
course or its equivalent, and later
have added TO their Normal school Dip.
Iona of the one-year course, higher
training in mainland or European
schools. They constitute group that
any school might well be proud OF,
the 'Alii' OF its graduates. They show
what our territory can do, once we
give 1t chance.
Moreover, in the Normal school
catalogue for 19lO-1l, announcement
is made OF q two-year course OF pro
high school course is the requisite OF
admission. That is the very course
now standard on the mainland. That
course was never put into operation
here presumably because of the small
number of applicants, but Is very an
ncuncement shows the school IN its
ideals as abreast at that time OF the
foremost of the mainland Normal
schools. The course of study also OF
its four-year course could well bear
comparison with the old mainland
type, not then so nearly obsolete.
A Comparison
ut takes no technical knowledge
of schools to try the following expert
ment: Get from the files Of the de-
partment the Normal school reports
from the beginning, or even that for
the one year 1901; get also the Oct
ober issue of the Hawaii Educational
Review, 1914, with the present course,
then going into effect. A comparison
of the work as planned by the head OF
the Normal school in conference with
his faculty. and that now enforced, as
well as of the methods cited, furnishes
conclusive evidence of fundamental
difference. The American standard
is not Tow even an ideal. The
old mainland type is no longer fact
or The Normal school is not falling
behind the mainland standard. 1t is
headed in the opposite direction.
1T is hoped by the committee that
this will dispose Of any stray rumors
as to hidden meanings.
COMMITTEE ON LOCAL INTER
ESTS, COLLEGE CLUB"