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13, no. 4
August/September 2010

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Story by Paul Wood
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by Elyse Butler

His Majesty King Kamehameha III was
slightly older than 10 when he proclaimed in 1824: “He aupuni
palapala ko‘u; o ke kanaka pono ‘oia ko‘u kanaka”—“Mine is the
kingdom of education; the righteous man is my man.” In this he
voiced the enthusiasm of his people, who were fascinated with the
new Western technology they called palapala, the written
word. As ordered by their chiefs, the Hawaiians flocked to reading
classes. The best students went to live at a school founded by
American missionaries in Lahaina, Maui, called Lahainaluna. Today
the institution, a public high school with a boarding program that
has sustained itself for almost two centuries, is “the oldest school
west of the Rockies”—a quick catch phrase that compresses a deep and
continuing Hawaiian story.

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