Sub-Topic: Hawaiian Land Affecting Education

Education is the key component for a child’s future. The purpose of education is to teach skills and knowledge for the child’s adult life. One of the main subjects is History.  Though some students dislike the subject, its one of the most fundamental subjects.  History is important mostly because you need to know about your past before you move on to the future.  It is also important because without knowing your history you have no knowledge of how you came to be. Learning about your History can also help you in future situations. Reading though history books, you may come across situations that you could relate to. Like every story, there’s always an ending and that ending could give you a solution to your problem. Reading though history will help you become a critical thinker. Being a great critical thinker with help save lives, countries, and cultures. For example the fight for Hawaiian land is giving students a chance to give their personal thoughts on should be done.  

Students during this generation are faced with the reality of what’s right and what’s wrong. As the fight for Hawaiian land becomes more intense, education is put at the mercy of a single signature. Hawaiian Charter Schools is the education that is being endangered of being getting shut down. Hawaiian Charter School’s, are Hawaiian based schools that go really into depth of what really happened in the years of our ancestors. These schools are what keeping the Hawaiian culture alive by teaching the next generation, thousands and thousands of years of sacred dances and chants. With different laws being passed and taxes being raised, it becomes harder to keep these schools alive.

Hawaiian Charter Schools were created for children that look forward to learn about the Hawaiian Culture. Students learn everyday subjects with the Hawaiian Culture incorporated with it. With this value, students can combine everyday situations with what they’ve learned in school. This provides more critical thinking students, which can help with solving problems in a more fair and safe way. Hawaiian Charter Schools also practice Hawaiian traditions like sailing, hula, and chanting. This helps students become more disciplined and respectful of there surroundings. With every word and every step, there is a meaning behind it. Allowing students to be more knowledgeable about there surroundings.

Simple words like “Pono” and “Laulima” go very far in the Hawaiian Culture. Pono means righteousness and laulima means many hands. The definition doesn’t sound like much but when you go more deep into finding a meaning for the words, you discover more then what you are looking for. When you live with a pono attitude, you start to change the attitude of the people that you encounter. When these people start to live the life of being pono then more and more people become pono as well. Its amazing how simple words can make such a huge impact on peoples lives.

Its not what you educate people about, its how you do it. Different techniques of teaching can determine what the student gets out of it. If you can manage to teach the heart of student, then they’ll actually take what they’ve learned and want to learn more. In my opinion, it’s like a spark, its starts off small, but give it time and it’s turns into a fire.