Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-12-01
SCHOOL survey
IS INDORSED BY
SANFRANCISCAN
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Ne seSSlOn MAS 10 Close tHiS dluci'
noon
Miss D. Barnes, a teacher at the Ka,
lihiwSena school. this afternoon
presented the following resolution
urging that the association take action
to secure an increase in the pay OF
teachers:
BE Il resolved that there should
commensurate with the increase in the
cost OF living; and be il further re-
solved that committee be appointed
to confer with other associations OF
teachers. with chambers or commerce
and other organizations and with pub.
lie officers and others with view to
securing more adequate pay Of teach
eTsr
The president is to name a commit
tee to carry further the plan outlined
in the resolution.
Outlines School Survey
Doctor Brown said that the school
survey in San Francisco was brought
about through the efforts of small
committee OF women representing two
large associations. and that one of the
first endeavors was to make, a com
prehensive study of the public school
systems in the United States.
In this work the committee was aid
ed by Doctor Boone of the Uniyer-
sity OF California, one of Americas
leading educators, and also by teJt
book entitled Helping the School Chill
dren" The book was taken up a
chapter at a time. each lesson be-
ing paralleled by actual work in the
public schools.
A number of questions. said the
speaker. were sent out to the teach
ers. these being largely personal. One
OF these was What is the manner
OF the teacher in the class room?" and
this, Doctor Brown said. caused more
trouble for the committee than any
thing else. The committee also stud
fed local conditions to great extent,
employing young woman of the
Russell Sage Foundation. This train
ed worker compiled the material that
had been collected by the committee,
which included photographs. data on
the actual condition of schools. the
of Fairgrounds, and in fact,
everything of Importance upon which
II was believed Improvement might
be made.
All this work, said the speaker,
touched the pulse of the community.
II was found that San Francisco was
spending considerable amount of
money on its schools; more, in fact.
than 196 other large cities. But when
the survey was published, the fact
was emphasized that San Francisco
was not spending enough to secure for
It's children a good modern education.
But the following year. said Doctor
Brown, $4,000 more was secured for
school purposes, "and there should
nave been FIVE times as much" added |
The speaker
From what understand" said Doc
or Brown. your trouble here with
regard to school survey is no mo.
ney. 1t cost $500 for San Francisco,
md that city had experts to do it.
She told how the money was final
v raised in the coast city and of the
coming of the II men and women rep |
every department in modern
education. These experts we're from
he leading cities in the United States.
One teacher in San Francisco said |
hat the ventilating system in her
school had never worked properly un-
il an expert went down into the base /
nent and ascertained what the trou-
,le> was. The work Of these experts.
he speaker said, was very stimulat-
ng to the entire school system.
The meeting was opened with an
Iddress by DR.. Robert d. Williams,
PRESIDENT OF the Mid-Pacific Institute.
Who spoke on Modern Educational
Tendencies"
DIR. Williams began his speech with
decided swing at the old ideas of
'ducation. mo licking. no learning.
Ie declared was the motto Of the old
orm school, out of which grew the
'elief that all human nature was bad.
The human vii. must be broken as a
Iorse is broken, a system found today
n some penitentiaries and reform
chools. and to less extent in the
ublic schools.
The old idea was that the brain
gas muscle which must be exercised,
aid the speaker. or that it was a con-
amer into which knowledge could be
olired. He pointed out that the pres
mt idea conceives Of knowledge as
on use and need The
hid defines a fork according to its
Sc. first of ALL
Interest in sub-normal children.
which has developed so Of late, has
ed to the new idea that the training
iven them NAV be as valuable for
ormal children as well. The great
alue Of this new idea is that it is
by tradition.
leyi.w Of Dewey Book
This was followed by an interest
NJ review OF Professor Dewey'S
Philosophy OF Freedom: Education
nd Democracy by ]. f. Nelson, prin-
ipal OF Mills scaool. He said, in part:
Education is a necessity Of life,
nth social function demanding d.
ection and growth. The very ma
ure OF human associations demands
hat its ideal be that of genuine de-
NJ.