The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-10-06
OUR PHILIPPINE
SCHOOLS ARE GOOD
A University of Chicago Professor
Speaks in Highest Terms Of Work
in Philippine Schools.

professor from the University of Chi
cago who spent several months in the
Philippine Islands as lecturer at the
Teachers Vacation Assembly conduct
ed by the Bureau of Education every
year at Baguio, the summer capital
of the Islands, returned recently to
the United States and in speaking of
the work of the schools there just be-
fore he sailed said:
"Other nations one of these days.
will be coming to the Philippines to
see how the educational triumps have
been won.''
Without question one of the tri-
umphs of America in the Orient is the
wonderful work that has been accom-
plished there by the public school sys-
TEN during the ten years since its or
ganization.
From a mere handful of pupils and !
an expenditure of few thousand dol |
lars in 1901 the system has developed
until now it reaches into every town
and nearly every village of the Island,
and last year instructed more than
half million boys and girls, and the
Philippine government spent over
three and a quarter million dollars of
local revenue for education.
The services of over nine thous-
and American and Filipino teachers
are employed in the various schools
of the Islands as supervisors and class
room teachers of the academic and
technical subjects of the courses of
study.
The University of Chicago sent DR..
: Shepardson and DR.. Goode, two of its
: ablest and most successful extension
lecturers, to Manila during the past
1 vacation to remain in residence at
t the Vacation Assembly of teachers
4 and conduct educational courses dur
l. ing the session.
t In referring to the class of men and
l. women engaged in the educational
g work there they speak in the highest
g terms:
s "I have seen many gatherings ot
IT educators but none which everagC
higher than this one. The reason nj
IT doubt is that nowhere else could suct
,e company of men and women who
" are doing pioneer work, who have tn,
n spirit of the pioneer, and whose earn
y. estness in pursuing ideals is reflected
in conversation and conference talk
is "The company in attendance at tn
ot Assembly has impressed me with
feeling of pride in the quality of mar
hood and womanhood in the servic
10 of the Bureau. They are clean-cu
1e straightforward, earnest people, tn
'e. stuff pioneers are made of. AS
he came to know them personally and
% hear of their work in all parts of TIL
Islands. the problems they are NEE
ing and solving and the success wit
which they are carrying the messae
to Garcia in the service of educatio
felt proud that | am an America
and that the generous American al
of helping these people to help ther
~ selves is being realized in the sple
~ did service of the Director and h
co-workers In the Bureau of Educ
ton"
or, This is a field which requires Il
Ia services of young men and women
superior qualifications. excellent cha
acter and good preparation, who a
able to maintain a position of inf
rs, ence among a rapidly developing pc
pie.
For the right kind of men there a
e'- excellent opportunities to take
Vi large part in the solution of some
Lhe the problems now confronting tt
; vi country and at the same time gain
est experience and training which will
as of great value.
'he The government employs men
supervisors, teachers of science. FL
hu- lish, mathematics, history, agric
ture, manual training. and women
eN-
,oo domestic science and home econon
the The United States Civil Servi
gh- Commission announces an eXamil
rhe ton for Dec. 27-S, 1911, in vario
l"s cities of the country for the purpC
will
lys Vi 'e0ui'"e elis'''N' ~ w
ids. in the spring of 1912 for work beg
)ck, ming with the opening OF Ihe III
ing school year. Detailed informal
,on- relative to the nature of the sery
son and the examinations may be had
om- Writing 70 the bureau OF ins,llar I
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