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Videos of Hawaiian Education


Videos of Hawaiian Education


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Welcome to our collection of videos of Hawaii education. The need for reform of Hawai’i’s educational ethos grows ever more pressing. Our best and brightest have voted with their feet. More than half of our college graduates leave, and we have lost 100,000 of our best and brightest to the Ninth Island. What’s happening here is of a piece with our usual pattern of exploitation and burnout. It is the same thing that happened with sandalwood, whaling, sugar, development, and tourism. What will become of us when we have no more natural resources to exhaust? That would leave us with the one resource that is at once the most precious and the most neglected: our human capital (if it hasn’t all left by then). We must begin with acquiring an understanding of ourselves and our unique identity… and of all we could offer the world as a knowledge economy.


Oni kalalea ke ku a ka laau loa. – The top of the tall tree waves proudly. (Said of good scholarship.)


A person wearing traditional Hawaiian attire stands with fists raised before a city skyline and the text Kumu Hina, the true meaning of aloha—capturing the spirit found in videos of the culture of Hawaii.

“Kumu Hina” (1:17:00)


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