The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1919-06-20
Punishment In
School To Stay
MacCaughey Says Ha Has Been Mis-
repreSented-favCr Spoken Eng
lish Instead OF Written - Con-
graduates Principals Club

of Maui were hosts at a large recep-
ton which was rendered the visitor
last Friday night at the Kahului Com
munity house. Besides the teachers
of Maui. man parents attended the
r~eception interested in hearing what
Mr.. MacCaughey's views were on the
school proposition.
Mr.. MacCaughey made an address
TO the assemblage and outlined some
81 his ideas for the betterment OF the
Territorial schools.
After congratulating the Club upon
it's organization and objects, Mr.. Mac
Caughey expressed himself as being
greatly in favor of organizations that
embodied practical experience ana,
which, like the Maui Principals CLUB,
tended to better cooperation n
teamwork between the factors con-
nected with the great work of educa-
ton in the Islands. He said he was
pleased to be able to avail himself OF
the opportunity to hear authoritative
ely of the problems which are peculi-
ar to the various Islands, and for this
purpose thought a similar organization
on each Island would be valuable to
the constituted authorities.
Corporal Punishment
In regard to corporal punishment
the superintendent declared himself
to have been misrepresented by a
section of the press. He stated he
did not disapprove of it and did not
recommend any change in the exist
ing rules, but what he did object to
was the administration of corporal
punishment in an indiscreet or un-
suitable manner. Such instances,
however, he stated, were extremely
rare. But where teachers, owing to
personal idiosyncracies or tempera-
mental reasons were not suited to ad-
minister such punishment, the princi-
pal should do so if necessary, and
teachers should in most cases consult
their principals, anyway.
The statement that a school which
had the maximum of punishments had
usually the maximum of inefIiciency
was heartily Endorsed by the large
audience of educators present.
Military Drill
Mr.. MacCaughey on the matter of
compulsory military education stated
that the great objection to the intro
duction Of military drill in schools
was because it was essentially mas
culine and belligerent. The %setting-up
exercises were profitable but in
schools where such drills had been
tried, it soon wore thin, and, having
little of the sustaining motive of in
%terest, eventually became mechanical
and wearisome.
He referred to the boy and girl
scout movement which he believes
has proved to be much more effective
it appeals to, and c%ultivates, the
love of nature.
Spoken English
The new regulations in regard to
question, he said, are naturally
transitional and there are many fact
ors which have to be considered in
the new scheme in regard to grading
pupils mainly in dc ~ anCe to their
to speak the English language.
THE sentiment Of the community,
continued the supeTintend-
ent, demands that children shall be
able to speak English with facility by
time they leave school, not to
about with pitiful pigeon
English as is often the case. For this
purpose less emphasis will in future
be given TO written work, especially
n the lower grades, and, as a general
principle, the sine-qua-non for promo
ton from grade to grade is that the
suitable to that grade shall
be mastered before children are pro-
noted to a higher grade.
I'm many schools, even in high
schools, children have a marked tend
ency to revert to the speech of their
ancestors rather than use the tongue
the country in which they live.
When it was essential for English to
used as in the case of class recita-
ions, the voices of the pupils are
often timid, stumbling and indistinct."
At this time Mr., MacCaughey took
he opportunity to pay a compliment
o the comprehensive report of a com
nittee of the club previously appoint
I'd to recommend methods tending to
cooperation between Japan
'se and English schools in regard to
and other subjects.
The discovery is being made that
railroads and telephones is
OF as EASY as if looked