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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B. THEY DO NOT BELONG THERE
In each list below are two words out of place. In the first list the words
BOOK and MUSIC do not belong with the list of musical instruments. Write
these words after figure 1. Now pick out the two misplaced words in each
remaining group and write them after the proper figure.
1 2 3 4 5
violin doctor street pretending cheerful
cornet lawyer wagon printing deceitful
music stranger automobile weaving loyal
trombone teacher boulevard nothing reverent
flute foreigner lane painting honest
book engineer avenue gardening boastful
C. YES OR NO
1. Men do not live in greatest numbers in extremely hot or extremely
cold regions. Would you expect to find most of the great cities of
Canada in the far north?
2. Sarah was born February 12, 1910. Her Cousin, Marie, is four
months younger. Was Marie born in 1910 also?
D. A TEST IN CLASSIFICATION
Divide your paper into four parts with lines as shown below.
SAHARA DESERT | HOLLAND I JAPAN I BRAZIL
Below is a long list of words that is not at all well arranged. Group
the words in this way by placing in the first space all the words that seem
to suggest the SAHARA DESERT, and in the second space all the words that
seem to suggest HOLLAND, and so on.
dykes kimona caravan Henry Hudson
Budha wooden shoes ostrich bamboo
camel Rio de Janeiro forest Indians
rubber coffee dairy products Portuguese
sand rice jungle Mohammedan
canals windmills islands diamonds
dye-wood pagoda Dutch Tokio
tea Amazon silkworm Netherlands
Arab camphor dates sand storm
pyramids Amsterdam oasis Wilhelmina
E.
1. The Malolos church is at the center of the town. Maria lives north
of it and Pacita resides at the north. Natividad has her home at the extreme east. Does she pass by the houses of Maria and Pacita when she goes
to church every Sunday?
2. Sofia came to school this morning at 7:30 and Carmen arrived just at
the time the bell rang. When Sofia arrived she found Margarita already
cleaning the room. Who came the latest?
The examples we have quoted form but a small fraction of the
many kinds of stimulating exercises which the Commission collected from
the municipal-school system in Bulacan. They are mere illustrations,
not a conclusive review of the total effort of those schools. They
illustrate clearly, however, how children can be taught to think by
giving constant practice in thinking; how vocabulary can be enlarged;
how refined discrimination in perception of meaning can be set up.
And best of all, they are a fine exhibit of an emphasis on silent reading.
In no other way can reading ability be produced in a school system.