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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dustrial activities and needs, the variety and number of products made
to be sold in a distant market will be reduced. For the Moros and the
people of the Mountain Province some exception should probably be
made for several years. The Sales Department has made a great contribution in helping to establish the work and create markets for it. With
a new emphasis upon adaptation of the industrial work to the local
occupations, it is probable that the Sales Department will at once be
able to reduce considerably its number of employees, and, in two or
three years, to turn over the work entirely to the open market through
the ordinary channels of trade. But a portion of the amount now expended in maintaining the Sales Department would be sufficient to
build up a strong promotional staff in the Bureau of Education to
develop more fully the practical-arts fields. As has been already
suggested, there is need for an able woman to direct the work in homemaking education, coordinate in rank with the two men in agricultural
education and industrial education.
The members of the Survey Commission have received literally hundreds of protests against some aspect or another of the commercial industrial work. It is recommended that the whole problem of the Sales
Department and commercial work be carefully studied, and such measures of adjustment made as will remove all possible dangers of exploitation of children, and secure the whole-hearted cooperation of both the
educational personnel and the patrons of the schools.
Probably it is desirable to stimulate certain forms of industrial production among adults and to aid in the development of markets for
their products. This should be the function of the general government
and not of the Bureau of Education. Securing and training teachers
to go to the several provinces and teach adults to produce salable articles, and finding a market for these articles, might well be undertaken
by the general government through an Industrial Development and
Sales Bureau, thus promoting certain industries and increasing the economic wealth of the Islands. This would not in any way exploit children of the schools nor burden the Bureau of Education with an expensive
enterprise which tends to divert a part of its time and effort from
genuinely educational endeavor.
VOCATIONAL GUIDANCE
One of the most important problems for the economic and social
well-being of a country is to secure for every kind of work the number
of well-adapted and well-trained workers required to do it, and to
secure for every worker the kind of work for which he is best adapted
and for which he should be properly trained. This means that, from