The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1920-02-27
Maui P~edagOgueS
Have Profitable Day
Teachers Hold Snappy And Progress
Sive Session : Recreation Clubs Or
ganized 0fChild Welfare
Explained

Explained
over two hundred teachers and
visitors filled the Kahului Community
House to capacity last Saturday for
the annual session of the Maui Teach
ers' Association. Paul MacCaughey,
president of the association announc-
ed the -appoiutmeRt-of John Martin,
J. Vincent, and Mrs. l.. Boyum, as the
executive committee for the ~associa-
ton for the school year.
Dr.. Henry Curtis and Mr.. Clinton
Child were the speakers for the
morning session while at the opening
of the afternoon session Mr.. Charles
Puck called the attention of the AssO-
citation to the track meets to be soon
inaugurated and called for the CO.
operation of the teachers in encOurag-
ing a team spirit to keep pace with
the school spirit and the Maui spirit
already in evidence on this island.
DR.. Curtis remarks were in part as
follows:
There have been four serious &C
cusatiOns made against the profession
of teaching:
First: That it makes the teachers
sick.
Second: That it makes them less
attractive.
Third: That the teachers do not
like it; and
Fourth: That it leads to arrested
development.
81 think that you may all agree
that, so far as all of these come from
teaching, however, they are unneces-
sry results.
According to our best studies,
teachers are peculiarly subject to
tuberculosis, to nervous disorders and
to anemia. One cure of all of these
troubles is the m plenty of open
air exercise, which is vigorous enough
to stimulate the circulation and eX-
pand the lungs.
Teachers often become over peda-
gogic and dictatorial in their manner.
A group of teachers often seem older
than they really are, yet the teachers
who love children and carry the spirit
of play in their work stay young in
spirit and often seem several years
younger than they actually are.
Teachers often do not like teaching.
No M can enjoy work when she is
sick or when she is working beyond
her strength, and no one rel really
enjoys children unless she loves chill
dren.
"The age of retirement of teachers
in Europe, in most cases, is about
fifty. There is something radically
wrong in the teachers method, how
ever, if she is laid on the shelf at this
age it shows hat she has gotten into
routine methods and has stopped
growing.
Every teacher ought to get out-of-
doors after her school is over in the
afternoon and take part in some vigor-
ous exercises. Frequently she should
go out for week-ends, if she is getting
tired, and forget all about her school
for a couple of days. 1t would be
splendid for every teachers in the
island to belong to a Trail and Noun
tain Club, and take their long walks.
1t is more important that the teacher
should be a wholesome personal in
fluence than that she should be learn
ed if she is to be a teacher of little
children, and all the way along the
amount of vitality and health which
she has is quite as much an influent-
ial element in her success as is her
learning"
Mr.. Child gave a brief outline of
the work which is opening up on Maui
along child welfare lines, and emphas-
lied the aspect of child welfare that
meant development of the child
through the channels of political life,
and technical education as well as
reaching them from a moral and re-
creational standpoint. The hope was
expressed that a physical director
would be secured, and that a campaign
for weights and measures; for
better lunches, and 10 teach the child
to drink milk, would Don be started.
Owing to the prevalent use of timed
milk, the children of the camps are
not used TO fresh milk and do not
relish it.
The audience was reminded that
the Federal Children's Bureau was
now represented by the Alexander
Settlement Hsuse and the plantations
having agreed to cooperate, it now
enlarged the field of the child welfare
worker as their efforts would closely
touch the schools, and the fields as
well as workers in the mills. A
standard of increasing efficiency
among the laborers is aimed for, mas
much as proper housing and proper
food were the fore runners of proper
workmanship.
The Cho-Cho'S, a easy working name
for the Children's Health Organization
is being put into effect on Maui. The
slogan" | am a Cho-ChO" meaning that
the child had entered a competition
to increase his health o and that