The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1904-03-05
EDUCATION IN THE PHILIPPINES.

The educational problem in the Philippines will take long time
solve AT present they attendance OF pupils
100 American teachers spread tv districts The remainder
OF the teachers Fpno who only themselves learning English
and who be entirely prevented from giving their explanations
in Spanish The therefore somewhat limited though there
has certainly success
The books used entirely English The policy having
books Spanish has been reversed and part OF the
islands Spanish book used The determination make English
inc eulu Oh ana 10 spanish DenS
OUT Dut must De SLOW process ne cuy lies IN the inability to
employ American teachers AS things stand there
American teacher every three hundred pupils The Filipino
teacher aabe and rule dgent but his or her English fire.
quenly ieariully and wonderfully made.
In Manila itself the school buildings satisfactory There is stu
ad the Normal school, the manual training school, the nautical school
and what known the English school, which OF High school,
but which has very limited course Outside Of Manila there few
regular school houses The educational department rents houses
and puts them educational In many Npa houses have
been erected by the villagers They have dirt floors and the desks and
made OF bamboo The American teachers hire in native
houses and far from being comfortable The policy OF the edu
caona department is not female teachers is
the life.
pupils free for the rest OF the day The afternoon taken up in the
instruction the Filipino teachers by their American colleagues This
does not give much time for instruction. and the effect is therefore
great would be time devoted the children
In reach adult population night schools have been established
in most OF the towns and villages These devote themselves entirely to
instruction n reading English
conditions Of upon than
they when the first teachers Then there very
broken communication between the capital and the outlying and
villages The has acquired twenty vessels which ply
regularly Manila the outlying These built in
Shanghai and Japan They expensive but there must be
regular nesand communication These vessels carry the Judges
officials and school
They carry supplies for the schools and for the teachers Formerly
might be isolated from all communication for months
time
gather something OF the school con-
dons in the Philippine Islands The DREAM and but dream
the whole population would understand speak English three
years. has been quite dspated based few isolated cases
where the picking cooqua knowledge OF language
remarkable isolated
change the language of millions people takes time True it
be DONE but likely take fifty hundred years than it is
take three The educational authorities in the Philippines have
gone the right The banshng all Spanish text books
the schools OF the best that they made language
but cooqua knowledge English to be acquired the pupil
only be taught English he be taught in English The
difficulty Philippines lies in the limited school hours and the
necessarily limited number of qualified teachers But this will gradual
y be the Normal school work begins to tell