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.

SECONDARY EDUCATION 371 adapted to the different levels of ability. The same examinations are given at the end of the year. If the methods of selecting pupils for the high school, which have been suggested in the preceding pages, are adopted, this need for adaptation would be much less than at present. Even then, however, if the full benefit of this method of classification were to be realized, both curriculum and methods of teaching would have to be adjusted to the different groups. Closely related to the problem of classification is that of promotion. Perhaps, one of the greatest advantages of the ability grouping is that it permits various rates of progress through the school. The present practice of attempting to keep the lowest group abreast of the highest is clearly indefensible. To be sure, different rates of promotion are permitted in the general instructions, but this provision rarely receives practical application. The work of the course should be definitely organized for the purpose of permitting the more able and industrious pupils to finish the work of the secondary school in less than four years. This would serve the interests of economy and make more certain the development in the pupil of good habits of work and study. It would also aid in the solution of certain of the problems of promotion which the secondary school is now facing. At present two tendencies with regard to promotion may be observed. In the first place, the philosophy of promoting all pupils which has developed in America during the past generation has found its way into some of the schools. Pressure from superior authorities has often been brought to bear upon the teacher to pass a certain proportion of his pupils. While such a principle might be applied in an ideal secondary school in which each pupil is pursuing a curriculum perfectly adapted to his needs and powers, it can hardly be applied in the general course in the Philippine secondary school. In this course, because of the extraordinary prestige which it carries, are enrolled many pupils who lack both the training and intellectual capacity required. Under such conditions it is obvious that these pupils lower the scholastic tone of the school and even that their welfare is not advanced by carrying them in the course. In some schools where rigorous standards of promotion have been enforced the general situation remains unimproved because of the treatment accorded those who are failed. They are sometimes allowed to repeat a subject as long as their parents are able to keep them in school. In at least one high school more than one-half of the pupils in the freshman and sophomore classes and over 40 per cent of the entire enrollment were repeating the course. Some of the pupils had been over the same work four and five times. While individual exceptions must always be made to a general rule, the available evidence

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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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Philippines. Board of educational survey.
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Manila,: Bureau of printing,
1925.
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Educational surveys -- Philippines
Education -- Philippines

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