In this 10-page essay by a wahine normal school student from Puʻunēnē, Maui, she reveals how her parents ingrained in her the importance of education. While both were fluent in Hawaiian and English, she disagreed with their emphasis on learning only English and expressed an interest in learning Chinese. Her goal was to become a reading specialist and remain in Hawaiʻi for specific reason of doing “something here for the Hawaiians” as the “Hawaiian nation is dying out.”