Chiefs’ Children’s School

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Chiefs’ Children’s School was a 19th-century Hawaiian institution established to educate the high-ranking children of the Hawaiian aliʻi (nobility) in Western and traditional subjects.

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Chiefs’ Children’s School canonical 2

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Predicate Object
instanceOf boarding school
educational institution
historical organization
school
alsoKnownAs Chiefs’ Children’s School (Royal School)
Royal School
country Kingdom of Hawaii
curriculum Christian religious instruction
arithmetic
geography
history
reading and writing
traditional Hawaiian culture
dissolved 1849
educatedFutureMonarch Kalākaua
linked to: King Kalakaua

Kamehameha IV
Kamehameha V
Liliʻuokalani
linked to: Queen Liliuokalani

Lunalilo
established 1839
foundedBy Hawaiian government
Kamehameha III
King Kamehameha III
linked to: Kamehameha III
governance students were legally declared eligible to rule
historicalSignificance central to the Westernization of the Hawaiian ruling class
trained nearly all later monarchs of the Kingdom of Hawaii
isLocatedIn Hawaii
linked to: Hawaiʻi (island)

Oahu
languageOfInstruction English
Hawaiian
location Honolulu
notableStudent Alexander Liholiho
Bernice Pauahi
David Kalākaua
linked to: King Kalakaua

Emma Rooke
Lot Kapuāiwa
Lydia Liliʻu Kamakaʻeha
William Charles Lunalilo
linked to: Lunalilo
opened 1840
operatedBy American Protestant missionaries
principal Amos Starr Cooke NERFINISHED
Juliette Montague Cooke
purpose to educate high-ranking children of the Hawaiian aliʻi
to prepare future rulers of the Kingdom of Hawaii
to provide Western-style education to Hawaiian nobility
to teach both Western and traditional Hawaiian subjects
runBy Amos Starr Cooke NERFINISHED
Juliette Montague Cooke
studentBody children of high-ranking aliʻi
heirs to the Hawaiian throne
supervisedBy Board of Education of the Kingdom of Hawaii

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Bernice Pauahi Bishop educatedAt Chiefs’ Children’s School
Royal School (Honolulu) hasAlternativeName Chiefs’ Children’s School