The daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 190?-1908, 1907-08-06


knowledge Of the English language
The element Of novelty was doubtless
an important factor also. The schools
possessed all the attractions of new
toy Soon, however. many adults
found that English could not be ac.
quired by few weeks attendance at
night school, and they dropped out.
Some of the children ceased to be
amused by school exercises and failed
to attend. while others stopped In or
der to assist their parents once more
in their various agricultural opera
tions. In some cases forces hostile to
the public schools, with their purely
secular education, became effective
and school attendance accordingly di.
minished.
The Philippine commission has
planned from the first to give the
schools better teaching force than
the provisional one they found neces-
sary TO use. and in its first legislation
establishing a public school system Il
mado provision for a Normal school
in Manila for training nltive teachers.
This school was opened in 1901. under
the leadership of DR.. Bryan. formerly
OF the faculty of Indiana university.
The school organized advanced classes
of students who had received instruc-
tion in Spanish schools and since 1908
has graduated classes Of from ~ to IS
members.
Year by year the standard has
been raised until admission to the reg.
ular classes of the Normal school is
now conditional on preparation for
the equivalent OF the first year OF an
American high school. Graduates are
entitled to enter the civil service as
teachers without further examination.
In one or two more years large classes
will be sent out.
Glasses in each of the elementary
grades are maintained as a training
school, and students are given care
full drill in practice teaching before
being allowed to graduate. Cooking.
housekeeping, gardening and wood
work are parts of the regular course.
and the students are trained to teach
these things in their appropriate
places in the grades.
1T is safe to say that no other
phase of education attracts so much
attention or excites more sympathetic
interest among the F'ilipinos at pres
ent than the various forms of indus
trial work that have been Incorporated
into their school system. At first
! Spanish ideals concerning the dignity
of manual labor constituted serious
obstacles. but practical opposition OF
this kind no longer requires consider
alton.
THE academic work OF the course
approximately parallels that OF the
ordinary American high school, En-
gllsh taking the place usually allotted
to foreign languages. History is mod
ified to meet the needs OF the sltua.
tlon by making Philippine and co
lonial history preliminary in that line,
Science is given unusual prominence.
the laboratories for physics. chemls.
try, botany and zoology being well
equipped.
Probably no other feature OF the
school offers such opportunities and
has furnished such results as has the
doimitory for young women. A ma.
jority of the women students live In
this home with one of the American
teachers. Coming from all parts of
the Islands, with different languages
and customs, they here use common
language and learn the essentials of
American social customs. Being rep
resentatiyes of the best Filipino fami-
lies, on returning TO their homes they
become social leaders, spread their
new-tound ideas widely and become
potent factors in introducing Amerl-
can ideals among their eople.
although the Normal school was
established for the purpose of train.
ing native teachers, its superior equip
ment has made II necessary to throw
open its doors to students looking to-
ward other lines OF work than teach.
ing. There are in the school at pres
ent classes of students preparing for
work in schools OF law medicine and
engineering; and for teasons of econ.
omy the nautical school classes re-
ceive their shore instruction at the
same institution.
"In short, in the Normal school to.
day may be found in embryo the Uni
verslty of the Philippines"
All bodily pains are more or less
oyaAescent Even tOothache will