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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should be a complete personnel in charge of tests and measurements.
The present one consists of a single person. There should be a superintendent of health and physical education. There is none. There
should be, a section continuously engaged in the scientific study of the
oral and written language problem. There is none. There should be
a very large staff of traveling agents, supervisors, inspectors, and the
like. The present staff is grossly inadequate.
We need not carry further the contrast between needs and facilities.
The situation is clear. The general government is hampering the
carrying on of education by not appropriating sufficient funds to develop an adequate organizing and directing staff at the top of the
system.
2. Inadequacy of individual salaries.-Not only in the failure to provide for needed types of administration but also in the inadequacy of
salaries paid to individual school officers is the Bureau of Education
being hampered. The salaries of the staff in the central office, judged
by any reasonable standards, are wholly inadequate. Although they
rank well with the salaries paid in other Government bureaus, it should
be remembered that most of these bureaus as in other governments are
doing routine work. This is the last thing a really effective central
educational office should concentrate upon. Routine workers are comparatively cheap in Government offices or business. In the other Philippine Government offices where special ability or responsibility is
demanded, the salary is higher than in the Bureau of Education. In
the Constabulary, in the Bureau of Public Works, in several other
departments, positions corresponding to the central office staff positions,
receive higher salaries. In recent years a long list of capable men
have left the central office of the Bureau of Education because they
could earn much more in business.
Furthermore, the central office salaries are inadequate as compared
with the salaries of the field. For example, in the central office only
the Director of Education receives more than P6,000;a only three as
t much as P6,000; only four as much as P5,800; only eight as much as
P4,500; and only nine as much as P4,000. In the field outside the
central office, one man receives P7,000; eight have P6,000 or more;
eighteen have P5,500 or more; thirty-three have P5,000 or more; fiftyfive have P4,500 or more; sixty-seven have P4,200 or more; and eightyseven have P4,000 or more.
It is absurd to expect that the central staff can render effective
help in technical matters to men in the field when the central office

Seven thousand two hundred pesos regularly and P4,800 additional by special contract if the Council of State approves.
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