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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use of the school. This charge is made despite the fact that the city is
relieved of the cost of the teaching which is done by teachers on
insular salary and that the city, because of its ability to pay high
salaries, is more served by the normal school than is the rest of the
country.
2. That the rooms necessary to house an adequate number of practice classes be set aside for such use in the main building. This use of
space will make it necessary to reduce the enrollment in normal-school
classes. But this arrangement should be adhered to until an adequate
school is provided within a distance from the main building which can
be walked in the time allowed for the passing of students from class to
class.
FINANCIAL SUPPORT.-Teachers cannot be trained cheaply but they
can be prepared economically. The normal schools have insufficient
money: (1) To make provision for practice schools with adequate staff.
(2) To provide enough teachers so that classes may be kept at optimal
size. (3) To pay the salaries necessary to secure a teaching staff
especially prepared to teach in normal schools. (4) To give the additional compensation to the present teachers which the heavier work
warrants.
On the other hand, the construction of such buildings as the normalschool buildings in Ilocos Norte, at Zamboanga, at Cebu, and at
Iloilo, represents an extravagance which the Philippines can ill afford.
No country with but five per cent of normal-school graduates among the
teachers in its elementary schools can afford to build such buildings.
They are designed for monuments not for practical school purposes.
With the money which has been sunk in the building at Laoag, several
buildings of the general type of plan twenty for elementary schools could
have been built. This type with little adaptation would be a completely satsifactory building to house a normal school and the larger
part, if not all, of the necessary practice classes. Ilocos Sur will have
its normal school well provided for if the plan of the superintendent
to make use of such a building already constructed can be carried out.
Only after the Philippines has provided for all of the needs of its
children for education should the construction of such costly monuments
be contemplated.
No accounts now kept make it possible to determine the present
expenditure for teacher training. Sums properly chargeable to this
activity are concealed in the general high-school costs. Clearly the
appropriations have been altogether too small in proportion to allotments
for other kinds of school work. If teachers are to be trained, more
money will have to be spent.