A survey of the educational system of the Philippine islands by the Board of educational survey, created under acts 3162 and 3196 of the Philippine Legislature.

BOARD OF EDUCATIONAL SURVEY REPORT 79 1923 this sum was not far from P23,000,000. Although the value of the peso was considerably less at the close than at the beginning of this period, the increase in public moneys devoted to education is impressive. The Filipino people merit high praise for this material evidence of interest in spreading enlightenment throughout the Islands. However, in spite of this signal achievement of the generation that is past the task of establishing a modern educational system, of extending even the rudiments of learning to the masses, of making the school an effective instrument in improving the general social and economic condition of the people, is only well begun. At present the enrollment in the primary school is but one-third of the total population of primaryschool age; and the intermediate school is reaching less than one-fourth of the children of appropriate age. Every modern nation regards the universal extension of the opportunities of an elementary education of seven or eight years as the first charge upon its budget. To provide this minimum of education to all children of appropriate age, even though the quality of instruction is not improved, will require great increases in educational expenditure. At the present time, the per-pupil cost of instruction in the primary school is PI 1 and in the intermediate school, P24. If the opportunities of the primary school are to be extended to all children of primary-school age an increased expenditure of more than P10,000,000 will be necessary. To extend the privileges of the intermediate school in the same fashion will require an additional expenditure of at least an equal amount. This means that if an elementary education of seven years is to be provided for all children of elementary-school age, the Filipino people will have to spend annually approximately P20,000,000 more than they are spending now. In other words, the present cost of such education would have to be doubled. Moreover, these estimates do not include the costs for school plant and equipment which any expansion of the system necessarily entails. If elementary education of even the present quality is to be made universal in the Islands, the revenues for education must be very greatly increased. In the immediate future the Bureau of Education might continue the policy of the past and seek to make primary and intermediate education universal at the earliest possible date. With this policy, elsewhere in its report, the Commission has expressed itself as quite out of sympathy. Its members are convinced that the wiser, and the only defensible, course is rather to strive to make more effective the education already provided. Due to the exceedingly short stay in school, to a relatively untrained teaching staff and inferior supervision, and to the extraordinary difficulties which beset education in the Philippines, a large portion of the present expenditure on education brings inadequate results.

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A survey of the educational system of the Philippine islands by the Board of educational survey, created under acts 3162 and 3196 of the Philippine Legislature.
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Education -- Philippines

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