Opening Address Delivered Before the Teachers and Pupils of the Summer Normal School

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Excerpt from Opening Address Delivered Before the Teachers and Pupils of the Summer Normal School: July 8, 1901That the opportunity has been appreciated is evidenced by the number of pupils who have passed through the normal school and now hold positions as teachers in every part Of the Islands. At the present moment fifty of our own normal 'school graduates are filling positions in schools in every part of the-islands. Wherever they may be, they stand out as a beacon light, understanding sometimes fully, sometimes less fully, the problems that are before them, but always being clear as to their duty and their ideal. Our own normal school teachers are Of immense value to us who are for the moment guiding the education of the Territory, and we all have the utmost hope that from among them will rise a truly Hawaiian Educational Light. For I have the faith and belief in me that during this century we are now entering upon, Hawaii will be to the new world, that great Pacific world of mingled Oriental and Occidental civilization, what Rhodes was in the time Of Caesar's youth, a spot to which every man who aspired to culture had to come, in order to gain the final educational polish. It is a far jump from this Normal School upon whose ¿oor I stand today, and that high pinnacle of culture, but it is a possible one, and we are now laying the foundation stones of the future superstructure.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.