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.

CHAPTER VII
GENERAL ADMINISTRATION
In the foregoing chapters has been set forth a study of the product
of a quarter-century of education in the Philippines. There have been
many occasions in the report to point out striking achievements. The
mere physical outcome is important: a going administrative system in
forty-nine provinces; more than 1,000,000 children in schools; a plant
consisting of over 6,000 buildings most of which are very well adapted
to educational needs in the Philippines; a teaching personnel of more
than 27,305 persons nearly all of whom are Filipinos. Remembering
that in 1900, when the American educational pioneers first came,
practically nothing had been accomplished to give the masses of Filipinos an education, the quantitative results alone of the past twentyfive years are very significant.
Since 1900 a complete school system for a people of diverse language
groups scattered over a score of islands has been evolved from almost
nothing. The leaders who planned the educational program for the
Philippines took in all levels and all types of education.
The scope of the system has been diagrammed and reprinted in
Fig. 26. The scheme was designed from American models and provided for education over four fairly distinct levels, primary, intermediate,
secondary, and higher. Within these a dozen types of instruction have
been evolved: general "academic" education of various kinds, industrial work, farm and shop work, normal training, schools of business,
law, medicine, and education, schools for the deaf and the blind.
To carry the scheme an elaborate field-administrative staff has been
set up. Its scope can be glimpsed from a mere enumeration of the
principal officers of the system:
Division superintendents........................ ---... --- —. --- —--—.............. 65
Academic supervisors.................................. -......... 42
Industrial supervisors........-......................................................... 41
High-school principals............................................ 57
Trade-school principals....-.........-................ 25
Agricultural and farm-school principals................................... 21
Supervising teachers of hygiene and sanitation....................................... 10
Normal-school principals......................................................... 6
Division academic and industrial supervisors................................... 172
D istrict supervising teachers................................................................. 497
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