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.

ELEMENTARY EDUCATION

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should be devoted to subjects of direct value to them with reference to
their prospective occupations. The following subjects are suggested as
desirable:
One period of forty minutes daily in the study and practical work of
industrial, agricultural, or home-making activities for the values derived
from this kind of work in making the pupils intelligent and efficient in
maintaining their own homes, intelligent about the means and methods
of industrial life as community problems, and sympathetic with problems
and lives of industrial workers. The work should help to hold the attention of these pupils to realities, and it should contribute to the better
understanding of other subjects dependent for their meaning and use
upon the practical problems of daily life. In the chapter on Industrial
Subjects, the character of this work is suggested more fully.
An additional daily period in reading and literature for Grades
V and VI to acquaint pupils with a broad content of material and
to help them in their English. Much reading rather than very critical
reading is the aim. Material in variety, of good quality, and adapted
to the interests and abilities of the pupils should be selected.
A daily period in Grade VII for geography and history, a form
of "Social Science," intended to give breadth and interest in world
relationships and problems. If organized to relate largely to questions
of current interests and world-wide scope, this course should be of
substantial educational worth and a good foundation for the history
study of the high school.
A daily study period should be provided in each grade. Since
the day of 370 minutes leaves little time for study outside of school
by daylight, and since pupils often have poor facilities for study in the
evening, a study period daily in school where the help of a teacher is
available is desirable. Pupils need to be taught how to study as
well as to have time for study.
This academic course is offered as a solution of the problem of the
intermediate school program for those pupils who should go on to the
general high school or normal school. As has been emphasized, this
course should be limited definitely to those pupils who have the equipment and the prospects to prepare for successful entrance into professional occupations. The course should be rigorous and exacting in
a degree consistent with the requirements for success in the fields which
pupils are preparing to enter. Vocational guidance should be applied
in aiding pupils to select the right kinds of occupational subjects in the
intermediate schools.
One of the purposes which it is hoped to achieve by this suggested
organization of the materials of the curriculum to meet the needs as