YOU SHOULD BEGIN LIFE, OR AT LEAST SHCOOL LIFE BY SLEEPING ON ONE WITHOI WITHOUT SLEEP YOU ARE WITHOUT A HEALTHY BODY AND WITHOUT A HEALTHY Our beds are made by us right here in Manila and the springs are made with great care, so as BEDS -P-9.00 TO P-40.00 ACCORDING TO SIZE Manila and the Provinces are filled with Schools and Colleges. Thousands of Teachers and Pupils are attending those institutions. VENANCIO ABELL. A SE RECIBE TODA CLASE DE TRABAJOS CONCERNIENTES AL RAMO No 82, Raon, Sta. Cruz ~, Prop. Santos y Bernal. THE (Formerly THE FILIPINO TEACHER) Entered at the Post Office at Manila, P. I., as Second Class Mail Matter. PHOTO SUPPLY CO ESTABLISHED 1898 145-147 ESCOLTA, MANILA, Kodas, Cámaras, Films, Plates, Cramer, Illford, & Seed's Tropical. Send for Catalog F. O. ROBERTS, Prop. Imp. de Santos y Bernal. de de de de de de de de de de de de de de de de de de de de de de ese ese se de de de de de de de de de se se se se se se se se se se se se s Every Other day of the Year se se se se se se se se se se se se se se ses (Formerly THE FILIPNO TEACHER) A monthly periodical devoted to the welfare of the teachers and educational work in the Philippines. FILEMON A COSIO-Publisher. Office 142 Dulumbayan St.-P. O. Box 1090, Manila P. I. VOL. IV MANILA, FEBRUARY 28th, 1911 No. 9 ADDRESS all communications regarding editorial publications, advertisements, subscriptions and business matter to The advertising rates of "THE PROGRESS OF EDUCATION" are sent on request. Any subscriber wishing to stop his paper must notify the Publisher 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 Publisher and another copy will be mailed. Change of address: -Subscribers must notify us of any change in their addresses, giving the former and new addresses. ne What the Homeland Expects from the Fiilpino Teachers Dedicated to Miss Rosa Martines and the future graduates of the Philippine Normal School (Class of 1911) In considering the subject I have for this time, we would find that there are essential differences between the average school teac ter in the past and the average school teacher at present. In the early days, when the Philippine Islands were under the control of Spain, the ordinary school teache possessed almost no education. He had no special training in methods and practice of teaching What lile he knew he had learned from experience or had been handed down to him from his ancestors. He knew nothing of the condition of the people living outside his own community. was often true of the teacher the early days, that he had never in his lifetime, visited the next town or the next province, nor had he come in contact with the inhabitants of the other islands. He kept the village school in the country church He required the children to memorize the statement in the book, the meaning of which he himself did not understand. His aim in teaching was to make his pupils be acquai: ted with the pri mary religious books of the Roman Catholic Church His work may seem to us to-day as something which is of no value whatsoever But we must take into consideration that although the teacher's method was not practical, although his ambition was not very high, and although his motive was not to educate the children so as to make hem useful and law abiding citizens, yet such work as that of his, was considered remarkable in the early days. His work was the stepping stone to the public school of the present day. He did all that was expected of him, and the homeland thanked him much for his services. But if the teacher of today accomplishes no more than did the teacher of the past, his country will not only curse and despise him, but will pronounce him a destructive enemy of his race. For the Philippines judges her teacher ow not by the standard of education in the past, but by the standard of education in the present. She has taken it for granted that as the time has gone by, the teacher has kept on improving until he has reached the place. where he now stands. Who says that the Filipino is unable to keep pace with the growing tendencies of the time? If any one questions his capacity for learning and for education, let him hear the following: General Smith, Secretary of Public Instruction, later Governor-General of the Philippines, said: "If the sta tement that the Oriental is incapable of enlightenment and that knowledge only tends to corrupt him, is directed solely at the Oriental of the Tropics, then we desire to ask our critics from what experience they draw the conclusion. Has any nation unselfishly, and earnestly, and in good faith, tried the experiment of bettering the social, moral, and intelectual condition of the children of the tropics? If so, when, where, and with what people has it proved to be a failure? or is the conclusion drawn from the fact that the nations alleged to be most successful in dealing with the races of another color have declined to undertake the experiment? But where actual experiment be the foundation for the conclusion, Spain's three hundred years. of experience in these Islands has demonstrated that the Filipino is capable of social, moral, and intelectual J. REYES-Fotografo MANILA CARCER N.o 18, (San Sebastian) |