Excerpt from A Survey of Education in Hawaii, Made Under the Direction of the Commissioner of Education, 1920 Every school system that is going about its work intelligently and effectively is subserving at least three important interests: The Nation, through preparing, along with other agencies, dependable, patriotic, and worthy citizens; the community, through shaping the training it gives, so that the community will have competent leaders and efficient workers in all its occupations; the individual himself, through helping him to find 1his aptitudes and abilities and through providing him with the means for so developing these that thereby he is enabled to render a service alike satisfying to himself and to society. The citizenship needs of the Nation the occupational needs of the community, and the tastes, aptitudes, abilities, and ambitions of the individual, then, are the guideposts which point the pathway of the public school; and these are the considerations, likewise, which must be held in clear view in any appraisal of the work of the schools of Hawaii. Furthermore, it should be pointed out, the system that holds unswervingly to this threefold purpose, intelligently shaping its practice the while by these ends, can never be charged, rightly, with influencing its children to turn away from legitimate labor of any kind. The influence of a system dominated by such high purpose will be not to free men from work but to free them in their work. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.