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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No stronger evidence of the interest of the Filipino people in higher
education could be given than is furnished by these tables. Until recently no question has been raised as to the desirability of such rapid
growth which at one time seriously affected university standards. However, a slight arithmetical reckoning will show that if the rate of increase
of the past decade were to be continued, at the close of another decade
there would be 10,000 bona fide students at the University. Unfortunately, when we come to the section entitled Income of the University,
we shall see that the support necessary for efficient administration has
not by any means kept with increase in numbers. Moreover, that
part of the Commission's Report devoted to finance will show that unless
new sources of greatly increased revenue are forthcoming, the support
for public education generally will not keep pace with the needs. This
will be true of the University particularly.
The conclusion to be drawn is obvious. Unless the policy of reliance
upon public support is to be changed, the number of students must be
rigidly curtailed, unnecessary courses, however excellent they may be,
must be eliminated, and the desire for bigness on the part of University
officials must play a smaller part in its administration. The University
must concentrate more thoroughly upon fundamentals and live within
its resources and the Legislature must see that the resources expand
annually to meet the real needs of the University. These are generalizations, but the facts upon which they are based will appear more fully
in the following pages. One illustration will suffice here. At the final
meeting of the University Council this year thirty-five courses appearing
in the catalog of the College of Agriculture were dropped. In this
connection the following figures are also significant:
TABLE 113.-NUMBER OF STUDENTS IN COURSES

Courses taken byColleges Less More
than 5 to 9 than 40
Engineering..................................................... 3 3 7
Education...................................................... 8 9 20
Liberal Arts.................................................... 28 29 73
Junior C ollege................................................... 3 13 5
Agriculture and Veterinary Science................................. 32 30 11
Dentistry....................................................... 3 3 4
M edicine........................................................ 0 0 6
P harm acy....................................................... 3 3 4
Law............................................................. (a) (a)
T otal..................................................... 95 105 125
a Not reporting.
In other words, there were 200 courses given in the University last
year with less than ten students each. This is not only in itself a large