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cation untIl about 1870. when the Sisters of
! Charity began 10 teach them.
We pass to the appliances for secondary
| education. " seems that since 1900 thero
| have been two institutions In Manila where
secondary instruction has been given.
10 wit. tho Municipal N'henGum. con-
ducted by the Jcs,iits. and the College of
San Juan de Letran, m adjunct of tho
University of Santo Tomas The latter
school has chung. for the most part, TO tho
medi@yal curriculum but In the Athe-
ngum, more attention has been paid to math-
ematics to chemistry and to other sciences.
According TO Sehor CArpERoS. nll the
most distinguished mon In Manila. includ-
ing DR. RIAL. have graduated from the
AthcnTum. Since 1885, some Institutions
ostensiby designed TO impart secondary
instruction have been established In the
provinces. but these have been controlled
by the friars we have shown above
how this term should be qualiflcd-and
the results have not been satisfactory.
We come now to the one ostensib" instru-
ment OF the higher education. the Uni
versty OF Santo Tomas, which has courses
in theology. canonical law. civil law. phi
losophy and literature. TO which. nj com
paratively recent date. were added courses
In medicine and pharmacy. As a mater
Of fact. some Of these curricula are merely
nominal. Thus in the course which was
supposed 10 comprehend. not only penal
law. but also political and administrative
law and colonial legislation. only the penal
code has been studied. Then. again. a
course in medicine profssedly includes
therapeutics proper. matera medca. pre-
scription writing. hydrotherapeutics and
electrotherapeutics; but Instruction Is gwen
only in therapeutics proper. We should note.
further. that school Of Agriculture and
"A School of Arts and Trades were founded
10y the Spanish Government. They have
borne no fruit at all. however. The mode
Of raising rice is, we are told, the same as
that employed before the Spanish Con-
quest. and the method OF extracting cane
sugar differs scarcely at all from that which
was practised many years ago. When a
disease broke out among the coTee trees
in Batangas. commission was appointed
from the School Of Agriculture, for the
purpose OF discovering a remedy. When
the commissions report was made. there
were no coffee trees left The proposed
cure for the coffee tree pest was to inject
a certain powder into each tree. This
could be done. II man had two or three
coffee trees In his yard but where there
were millions Of coffee trees on a plantation
the remedy would be impractcsble. As
for the School OF Arts and Trades. only
one man graduated from It. and he was a
Spaniard.
Among the suggestions tending TO the
Of primary instruction which
at tho request Of the commission. were
made by the Jesuit fathers. two are Of
utility. The post Of teacher In
the primary schools should be better paid.
in which event the graduates OF the nor
nal school In Manila would be tempted
10 exercise educational functions. which
at present they avoid Secondly. the
study Of the English language, as well
as OF Spanish. should be at once made
obligatory in all schools. For a time.
institutions In the Philippines
will have to be bil!ngual but ultimately !
the English tongue NAV he substituted for
the Spanish "a the medium ~ instruction.