Then lend a helping hand. Send us things you have and that are worthy of being published and read by others. Send in your deas and let other teachers read them.--When will you do it? VOL I. MANILA, MARCH, 1907. A MONTLY JOURNAL PUBLISHED BY "The Philippine Teachers' Association" Guillermo Santos, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF. Anastacio Quijano, MANAGER. N. 1. ADDRESS all comunication, regarding, publications, advertisments, subscriptions, and business matters to the Manager, Mr. A. Quijano, Manila, P. 1. P. O. Box. -//- 1090 The advertising rates of "the Filipino Teacher" are: P- 1.00 per month and -P- 10.00 per year for a space of 1x5 inches. Special discounts for large space. Any subscriber wishing to stop his paper must notify the Manager, otherwise he is responsible for payment as long as the paper is sent. Missing Number:---Should any subscriber fail to receive his copy, notification should be sent to the manager and another copy should be mailed. Change of address:--- Subscribers must notify us of any change in their addresses. giving the former and new addresses. EDITORIAL GREETING. The spell of the long night's darkness has been broken up after many a struggle and at last the long-hoped-for Goddess of Hope comes smiling ly from the east annihilating the miasma around us and presenting before our eyes the brightness of the morning sun. "The Filipino Teacher"! This is the name of the car which the Filipino Teachers have built for them selves on which they mean to ride and catch the golden chariot of Progress. Filipino Teachers, let us all lay aside that mantle of seclusión Before we bend our sinews to our 1775 P5 F68 P. O. BOX. N.° 1090, MANILA. IMP. DE STO. TOMÁS. Our Purpose. "In union there is strength."-"Two heads (minds) are better than one." In like proportion the united thoughts and efforts of one thousand persons is A THOUSAND TIMES GREATER than the knowledge and opinion of one single individual. People who try to fight life's battle alone oftentimes fail. Why is this so? Because they did not wisely seek the help and cooperation of others. Our main and sacred purpose is the pursuit of the advancement of the Filipino Teachers along educational line. The question which arises now is, how can we carry out this high aim? How can we bring out this noble pursuit? This difficulty is answered in one short sentence: "We must have union."-Yes, our progress and our success depend entirely upon our being united, for without union there can be no strength. The word "union," short as it is, is full of grand meanings. Without union there can be no nations. It is the golden chain that ties them up and solidifies them. Drops of water;-what is their power when separated from one another? It does not amount to much. But when But when they unite together, what a great power they then possess! They can turn huge wheels of machineries, or it may devastate an enormous track of land. So, fellow teachers, we must be united; we must join our efforts into one and use this power in scaling the hill of success. Of course its path is so abstructed with thorns and countless obstacles, but, what of that? We are determined to free them. to fight them and to conquer them, and by the strength of all our united efforts all these thought-to-be unsurmountable mountains of difficulties will shrink and vanish away like summer clouds under a hot summer sky. Let us repeat to you that our hope, our desire our aim and our success lie entirely upor our shoulders. "The Filipino Teachers" starts ou in the field of battle with the unbend ing hope and purpose that may it b a guiding star which will illumine on pathway whereby we may trace th once obscure path of success which leads to the treshold of Truth, Wisdon and knowledge. Our next aim is to defend the interes of the Filipino Teachers in genera and that of the "Philippine Teache Association." That we may preserv our integrity we shall be strictly neutr in matters concerning politics an religion. We shall limit. our selve within in the sphere of Education.Q "IN UNION THERE IS STRENGTH. Unión is the realization of a thought idea born in the mind. any person, which requires the agr ement of will of others, and wh the idea, knowledge and opinion a combined together they form a streng which constitutes the great vig and energy of union. Therefore uni is absolutely necessary to strength the idea in order to obtain the su that is evidently secured I do not intend to define t word "union" but only to illustra the utility and importance of t theme that heads this item in or to carry out the work that is a ready begun into a good effect, b cause without union there. is strength, and without strength th cess is no life, that is, I dare say that Knowing then that the unity of even stand then in order to reach our IMPORTANCE OF AN EDUCATIONAL JOURNAL FOR TEACHERS. From the time public schools were as far as Our main purpose in the publica- But after all we have to under A good educational journal at these P. O. BOX. N.° 1090, MANILA. IMP. DE STO. TOMÁS. |