Ka Nupepa Kuokoa, Volume IV, Number 51, 23 Kekemapa 1865 — English Column. [ARTICLE]

English Column.

Newspapers in Schools.

The replics m thc two GoYemm*Mitai t) r . gans to our short paragraph regardi! v M „ use of those newspapers in tho schooU r». ceiving aid frorn gt>vernment, were do«ik! ? «j as satisfactory as the case aliowed. One of them us with bein£r jealou-; It thinks the children of the land shou!c read Hawaiian History—and therefore it will 0 an admirable arrangement that the Au Okoa be read in the schools! Such arguments nee-i nq reply. The other intimates thai a simitar coar>-» was taken by the Board of Education ur 4 Jer Dr. Armstrong. We well know that a si u . gle copy of the Polynesian was xhen s?;u to eaeh English school ; but how very difterent that £rom an arrangementby whieh th«? Ne\vspapers are to be used 44 in the di!u-roßt classes fQr a regular reading lesson." It is certainly an original idea ttiat -n-u the best of newspapers ean to advanta^ t . used for " regular reading lessons" jti sciiooi>, and one the full credit of whieh our piy>«'ut Board of ,Education must receive. But it is satisfactory to know that notwithstatidinthe " respectful request," eaeh teacher is t>o.to do as be thinks best in using the papor in his school.