| Show EDUCATION IN ISLANDS Sircto Lopez Writes an Open Letter to Jacpb G Schurman New York Nov 3Slxto Lopez the Filipino has written ap open letter to Jacob G Schurman president of Cornell Cor-nell university and of the Philippine commission The letter In part Is aB follows The report of the late commission of which you were president professes to deal in addition to other matters with education in the Philippines You represent that the Insignificant part which the Spanish authorities played In matters educational was tho sum total of educational activity among the masses of our people That Is a most unfair and Inadequate representation repre-sentation of the facts It will now be my pleasure to prove In matters eductlonal the Filipino record Is editable to a degree During Dur-ing all the years of the Spanish regime re-gime notwithstanding monastic opposition = oppo-sition and Spanish Indifference our system of education nourished and increased in-creased University extension and collegiate col-legiate schools the result Holely of Filipino activity Have spread throughout through-out the archipelago The intense desire de-sire pf the people for education both in its elementary and hlgjier forms wan known and feared even in Spain and has been admitted by ydurself and your colleagues Every programme of reform re-form put forward by our people has Included a system of free slate education educa-tion In most every branch of knowledge In competitive examination the Filipinos I Fili-pinos have shown themselves superiors of the Spaniards In all the learned > professions in philosophy in theology the most prominent men are Filipinos Notwithstanding the fact that theFili pino who came to Europe was Immediately Imme-diately singled out for the hatred and persecution of the monks many Filipinos Fili-pinos sent their children to the universities univer-sities of Madrid Paris and Germany where they distinguished themselves especially In philosophy Tho latest addition to higher education educa-tion In the Philippines Is due entirely to the energy and liberality of the Filipinos Fili-pinos Iri July of this present year amid the clash of arms and political strife the Filipinos founded the Manila Ma-nila Lyceum with fortyone teachers and professors all of whom with the exception of three arc pure Filipinos Among the subjects taught are Greek Latin English French Spanish universal uni-versal and commercial geography and I statistics history theology philosophy zoology physics chemistry general science drawing etc This Institution owes its origin to Senores Guerrero Mondiola and Vlllamer all of whom arc pure Filipinos two being Tugalogs and one a Visayan and the funds have been provided exclusively by Filipinos |
