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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years of her life, in all of the practices in which she will engage as a
home maker after leaving school. Already she is a home helper, and
she is participating in these activities to some extent. The school work
should relate closely to her background of home experience and supplement it in every way possible. Home projects should find a large place
in the work. The course should include studies in home making relating
to such fields as the following: in clothing-its materials, designs, construction, purchases, cleanliness, healthfulness, adaptability to occasions,
care and repair, and the development of such skills in making and
caring for clothing as the home maker should practice; in foods-a
similar study of materials, values, and health problems and the development of skill in cooking and serving; in the house-its planning, furnishing, and keeping, for health, economy, convenience, and comfort;
and in the care of children, home management,'and the social life of
the home and community. In different communities some differences in
conditions will exist, consequently much freedom should be permitted in
the adaptation of work to local needs. The time given to the practical
and closely related work should be the same as for industrial and agricultural for boys.
MODIFICATIONS FOR INDUSTRIAL PREPARATON.-For girls wishing to become commercial producers of garments, lace, embroidery,
crocheted products, or woven goods, courses should be organized to
meet their needs. As is suggested for girls in the academic course,
these girls should have one period each day in general home making.
The remaining time of the industrial period should be given to the development of the knowledge and skill for successful production in the
kinds of work selected. The one period of home making is recommended because most of these girls will probably become home makers
as well as commercial producers.
INDUSTRIAL WORK IN THE ACADEMIC COURSE.-The academic
course should be for those pupils who may reasonably be expected not
to follow home making, industrial, or agricultural occupations. Intermediate schools offering the academic course should not be much more
numerous than the high schools. They should be limited to the larger
municipalities or school centers. For these, there should be industrial
work for its more general values, to the extent of one period of forty
minutes daily, or its equivalent in time.
For girls, the work should include units in clothing, household furnishing and textiles, food studies and cooking, household management,
care of children, home sanitation, home decoration, and the social life
of the home and community. Home-project work should be an important feature of the studies, connecting them directly with the home
life of the girls. The production of commercial articles should have no