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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any other one thing is a body of trained men and women scattered over
the Islands who would be leaders in rural communities; men and
women who would stay upon the soil, who would be an inspirational
force to the neighbors in their vocational, recreational, cultural, and
spiritual life; men and women who could make intelligent investigation
of activities which directly affect farm life such as the administration
of the homestead laws and the rural credit system and who would
suggest and insist upon their improvement. Generous modification of
curriculum and administration would be worth while in the interest of
such a reform. It has been done at other places and in several different
countries. The Commission believes that the fine spirit which animates
Los Banios marks it out as the place for the realization of such a plan
in the Philippines.
The Commission regrets that the experiment station at the College
established by the Philippine Legislature in 1918 by an appropriation of P125,000 has never since received any support for its operation.
It commends the vigorous departmental energy which has enabled the
experiment station nevertheless to be developed, but deplores the fact
that it has been done through savings primarily educational. In this connection the Commission expresses its surprise that the Philippine Government has not seen fit to petition the United States Congress to bring the
Philippines under the provisions of the Hatch Act of 1887 and the
Adams Act of 1906 whereby federal aid is given for agricultural experimentation and research. In most states of the Union the funds
secured thereby have been used for the establishment and support of an
agricultural experiment station. Porto Rico, Alaska, Hawaii, and even
Guam are enjoying the benefits of these acts which, if extended to the
Philippines, would without expense to the Philippine Government add
a very large sum of money to the resources of the College of Agriculture.
If the Smith-Lever Act of 1914 for agricultural and home economics
extension and the Smith-Hughes Act of 1917 providing federal aid
for vocational education and the training of vocational teachers were
also extended to the Islands, both of which would require the Islands
to match dollar for dollar with insular funds whatever the Federal
Government would appropriate, the College of Agriculture would have
a degree of support which it has never enjoyed in the past and which
would enable it to realize the fine program which it has put forth for
future work.
The College of Agriculture, the Bureau of Agriculture, and the Bureau of Science are all Government agencies carrying on agricultural
research. There has been some duplication of work and the proposal
has been made to centralize the control of all research and extension
work in the field in an Agricultural Coordinating Commission, its office