The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1907-07-13

| knowledge of the English language
/ The element of novelty was doubtless
an important factor also. The schools
I possessed all the attractions of new
/ toy. Soon, however, many adults
found that English could not be &C.
/ Quircd by a 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,
tons 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 a better teaching force than
| the provisional one they found neces.
! sary to use, and in its first legislation
| establishing a public school system it
| made provision for a Normal school
! in Manila for training native 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-
! ton in Spanish schools and since 1908
has graduated classes of from IL 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.
Ia one or two more years large classes
/ will be sent out
Glasses in each of the elementary
grades are maintained as 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 eNCites more sympathetic
interest among the Filipinos at pres
ent than the various forms of indus
trial work that have been incorporated
into their school system At first,
F. Spanish ideals concerning the dignity
of manual labor constituted serious
obstacles, but practical opposition If
this kind no longer requires consider,
alton.
Tho academic work of the course
approximately parallels that of the
ordinary American high school, En-.
glish taking the place usually allotted
TO foreign languages. History is mod,
flied to meet the needs of the situa.
tiun by making Philippine and co.
lonial history preliminary in that line,
Science is given unusual prominence,
the laboratories for physics, chemis,
try, botany and zoology being well
equipped.
school offers such opportunities and
has furnished such results as has the
doTmitory 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 a 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
uew.found ideas widely and become
potent factors in introducing Ameri,
can ideals among their people,
Although the Normal school was
established for the purpose OF train,
ing native teachers, its superior equip.
meut has made il necessary to throw
/ open It's doors to students looking to,
ward other lines Of work than teach.
ing There are in the school at pres.
ont classes Of students preparing for
work in schools of law. medicine and
engineering; and for reasons of econ.
omy the nautical school classes re-.
ceiye their shore instruction at the
same institution
In short in the Normal school 10
day may De found In embryo the Uni
yersity Of the Philippines.
Nj bodily pains are more or less
! eyaacsceDt Even . too,hache win
stop q Itself if you have patience
'uouzh - wait Nenrals.a always
stops spontaneously sooner on latar
Even the terrible pains al such is
eases as scia,ica cannot last forever
and So when they stop Yen asc-ihs
that result 10 the virtues ~ nhasa,e,
remedy you haHHea 81 le s.as AZ ms