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A PLAN FOR A SBCOXDARV AGRICULTURAL SCHOOL. 



Combinino- a broad view of education with a concrete idea of 

 Hawaii's needs. Andrew Adams, manafjer of Kahuku plantation, 

 made a notal)le address recently to the Territorial Teachers' Asso- 

 ciation. Mr. Adams was speakingr on the plans for the secondary 

 a,s:ricultural school at Kahukii. and made a forceful j^lea for a real 

 trial of its merits. Mr. Adam-;" paper follows: 



The Moiihcrs of the Territorial J'cachcrs' Associatii>!i, Ladies and 

 Geiitleiiieii: 



Yon have kindly permitted me to present to \(ui the planters' 

 point of view of the proposed establishment in I lawaii of a Sec- 

 ondary Afjricnltural School. 1 am credibly informed that Ha- 

 waiian planters are reputed to have evolved into autocrats of a 

 sort. If this be so ■then it is ])Ossible that some of them, or of us 

 rather, miqiit be nnwilline^ to delec^ate to me the authority to 

 present the views of all. To avoid possible trouble therefore, per- 

 mit me to sli.e:htly alter the title of my paper so as to limit my 

 responsibility to presenting? one planter's point of view. 



Tt is entirel)' possible that some of the views which 1 shall 

 present to you will be a repetition of the views of the other s]:)eak- 

 ers of the afternoon, with mere chancres in the phraseology of ex- 

 pression. Such a repetition will but serve to emphasize the fact 

 that the interests of the teacher and the ai::riculturist are not in- 

 compatible, but. broadly speaking:, are identicrd. Intrusted to each 

 are natural forces susceptible of development into threat productiv- 

 ity, alwavs provided there is present in the mind and soul of the 

 pupil and in the soil of the field that subtle constructive element or 

 force so necessary to development. 



The '■Old-style." 



Familiar to us all is the ])icture of the old time iiedair<i<^ue who 

 expressed himself best in what Shakespeare called "three-iMled 

 hyi)erboles. s])ruce afifectation. fii^ures pedantical." l\M-hai')s more 

 familiar to us liere is the sight of the oUl style plantation overseer 

 who ha])pened along from the shi])s in the harbor to tr\ hi> hand 

 at cane cultivation. I am speaking <if classes, not of indivichials. 

 The community has come to insist that only such as have a natural 

 inclination and ])articular (|ualihcations for the work shall preside 

 at the teacher's desk in the class room. In the final analysis there 

 is no real place in the fields for the individual who h;\s no red 

 love f)f it. lie is deficient in the larger view. 



What has this to do with the establishment in I lawaii ot' a Sec- 

 ondary .Agricultur.'d Scliool? \i<\\ are teaclin-s and understand 

 the meaning of and appreciatt- the necessity loi- the larger view. 

 l'V)r in your work and mine, inspiring" us to sustaini'(l effort for its 

 accomplishment, is the knowledge of that insistent human need of 



