Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-06-24
"A STUDENTS, LARGEaCLAsSN
KKINLEY HISTORY, GRADUATED

i pretend TO turn out boys and girls full.
| ly educated. yet, IL they have incul-
Gated the reading habit, they have
served To broaden the viewpoint of
their graduates. .s<" =.
Il would rather see a boy OF mine
reading dog-eared dime novel than
not have him read anything at all"
he declared. for know that If he has
brains the time will come when the
dime novel viii not satisfy him.
Attorney Wilmington. whose topic
was Preparedness" spoke. in part,
as follows: ,...-1 n EE5
In the things of the spirit hard is
the way and narrow is the path which
we must tread If we would attain.
What, then, are the conditions Of at
tainment2 What must one do TO full,
I'll these conditions and attain state
of preparedness?
First Of all. the cnoice OF parents.
Not so much the father, skthoAgh II
Is well TO have decent, clean strain
Of blood upon the parental side, and
the influence OF the father is impor-
tant, particularly in the adolescent
years of the boy. This masculine m
nuence. which We miss so much in
these later days in our schools, is an
important element jim Preparedness
and not to be overlooked But when
1t comes TO choosing the motherl that
Is allimpo rtant; for the training Of
the child is naturally and wholesome
" begun only by the mother. Quintf-
Ian, the greatest authority who ever
wrote on education, says that the
child should be trained and educated
entirely BY the mother up to the age
Of eight years; that Is TO say, up TO
the grammar.school age. Tacitns re-
minds us that Gracef1i was trained by
C0rnelia, and Caesar by Aurelia. to
discipline and endurance. We try to
supply the deficiency of mothers by
the Kindergarten, by the primary
schools. more often by the street. We
try to replace both fathers and moth.
ers by the juvenile court, by organic
ed societies, by asyIuIhs; and comics.
sions of decadent condition Of the
race. There ought to be no necessity
for juvenile court, or orphan asylum.
Society ought to be able to absorb
those deprived OF their natural pro
tectors and trainers without such or.
ganized effort, and the tendency of
this generation to magnify the impor.
lance Of these agencies, which are but
the nursing bottles of society, is alto
gether wrong.
Again, true preparedness, to quote
a second time the language of Isaiah,
means .precept must be upon precept,
precept upon preeept, line upon line,
line upon line, here a little, and there
a little Whatever is done must be |
done well to be of any value, and the
child's education in this period is |
here a little and there little, but not |
li0e upon line or precept upon precept. |
i am one Of those who think that |
athletics are oEerdone In the colleges,
particularly inter college contests, and
oyerdone on the mainland In inter
scholastic contests not here. |
But in the best of the colleges and in |
many Of the preparatory schools the |
boys. and to some degree the girls, |
can find only in athletics an opportu- |
nifty for discipline or the sacrifice Of |
self in order to attain q common end |
There they learn that It is not the
individual effort, but the united eff. /
fort There they learn that good hab.
Its. sleep. moderation. are, what pre-
pare one for the immoderate exertion |
required in the final contest, and to /
that extent it is a splendid discipline,
the value Of which is diminished by
publicity and glamor.
Sunday School Equips Child.
The Sunday school, in equipment,
trained teachers, excellent methods,