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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uncritical submission to rigid regulation from above is it worth while to
call them together to be harangued by heads of an educational hierarchy.
Such meetings send teachers back to their stations with initiative, intellectual curiosity, and professional pride seriously impaired. And
these are the mainsprings of growth.
Able people grow under increasing responsibility. Effective administration puts upon each person in a system all that he can carry of
independent and final responsibility for accomplishing results. The
Survey Commission is of the opinion that at all levels of the organization
of school procedure in the Philippines teachers, supervisors, and administrators now receive too little stimulation to exercise authority and to
bear corresponding responsibility. Each person tends too much to
depend upon some superior to direct him and to limit his feeling of
responsibility to the letter of directions given. The Commission is fully
aware of the conditions which made such a situation necessary. It
raises as a very serious question whether the means which have been used
to stimulate professional growth among teachers and supervisors have not
now borne sufficient fruit to permit the placing of more responsibility
upon these persons. If that stage has been reached, to fail to take
advantage of it will seriously hamper farther growth. Not necessarily
a rapid but a practicable development in this direction is urged. And
there is no suggestion that there shall not be an unfaltering insistence
upon the satisfactory discharge of responsibility.