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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The College of Education has at present a remarkable opportunity
for development and for rendering service to the Islands. It needs,
however, to keep in closer touch with the Bureau of Education and to
cooperate with it more intimately in order to understand the real needs
of the school system. The Commission learned of cases where highschool principals were unable to secure graduates of the College of
Education trained to teach mathematics or branches of science and were
forced to employ as teachers for these subjects graduates who had
specialized in history or economics. It would seem that such maladjustment might be avoided. The Commission has elsewhere recommended
that supervising teachers in the public schools, in order to receive a
permanent license, must, after graduation from a normal school and
after two years' service in the field, return to a university for a course
in supervision of instruction. This offers a fine opportunity to the College of Education, for if the recommendations of the Commission with
reference to the school system are carried out, it will contain no official
more important than the supervising teacher. The Commission recommends also that just as soon as the high schools can be supplied with a
sufficient number of adequately prepared teachers, college graduates
who have had professional training in education, no others be permitted
to teach in them. Some of the other recommendations of the Commission with reference to the school system will require research in the
various aspects of school administration. A mere enumeration of these
opportunities, and there are others, would seem to justify the Commission's recommendation that the College of Education devote itself to
professional work and leave the preparatory work to the College of
Liberal Arts. The College of Education has shown a fine spirit of initiative in organizing the University High School for practice-teaching
purposes and in placing it upon a self-supporting basis. It has been
equally successful in organizing the summer sessions at Baguio and at
Manila. As a smaller, highly developed professional school of fine
standards, it can to a great extent determine the character and direction
of education in the Islands during the next decade. In rendering such
a service to the people of the Philippines it will deserve the generous
support of the University officials.
COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE.-Agriculture is the most important occupation in the Philippine Islands, 90 per cent of the people being
engaged in it according to the Philippine Census of 1918. Few of them
carry on their work according to the modern methods of farming, and
in the more remote regions ignorance of the most fundamental principles
of agriculture results in very wasteful methods of production. Rice is
the staple food commodity of the Islands. Yet rice must annually be
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