Show 7 laci mols aye maki ng filipinos an english speaking race N za 2 mm 4 Z 4 et N alaa 0 O 11 M this Is the type of schoolroom ahat hat is il rapidly making an english engish speaking nation out of the inhabitants of the philippines it if a teacher in a school ili I 1 the philippines desires to punish it child she chave to apply iw ruler she simply sentences the offending pupil to remain away froni from school a few days I 1 this Is the most severe punishment site she can inflict indict for filipino children childre take an almost abnormal pleasure in ili going to school and acquiring lit an edit education the all legislature in response to the popular demand for schools olig and still more schools Is constantly increasing its appropriations for education but the set schools I 1 cut scarcely be constructed fast enough I 1 to care for the ever increasing enrollment the school enrollment Is now nov without any compulsory at laws when dewey sailed ailed into manila pay day there wora were 2100 private selic school to lit in the islands today there are schools and colleges with fill pino teachers and about 1000 other teachers 3 11 of who marc are americans the university of the Philippi PhIlIppin esli the center of learning of the entile orient and Is the pride lit life of tile the fill nit phin people it liis ims an enrollment or of students santo toni p zarvard university or of manila older than li harvard Is another famous seat of learning the school system includes normal school fi agricultural colleges twenty seven farm schools a nautical school and a school for the leaf deaf and blind the filipino pur ciril lit 1 addition to learning english and in addition to ill 4 regular studies learns basket embi embroidery boldery and lint hat vl beaving ditl trades pecullar peculiar to the lie islands its as well as the domestic sciences science sand and pedagogy there are more positions than can call lr filled by the trade school and commercial iner cial college graduates the t bradu ra and agricultural schools produced sl LI worth of goods in Irr lOll there Is nothing noth iii that the alie ip 1 tin I 1 people tale mure more pride in ili and that I 1 they are more grat grateful reful to the united states for than choir school system which lias has been declared cared de ly by many competent critics to be one of tile finest id iu the world while the system was implanted in the islands by americans every cent of the cost has been cheerfully borne by the filipino people the schools tile me making an eng losli speaking race of f the filipino nation english is the official language and it is declared will continue to be ba when independence Is granted the filipino boys and rids girls are well balanced docil cocilo and industrious 7 ii fly 4 I 1 university of th the e philippines which has an enrollment of students pupils says junius C wood wh vb wa was sent to tile the islands by the chica chicago go daily news to ime in estimate algate conditions there to aftena school ts is a privilege to a Fill fillipin pin child or young man not tin nn duty in the cities those mhd work days day go to school at night light P today there Is hardly a barrio where youngsters cannot he be round found who speak english one the house of representatives and eig eighteen lateen of tile hie twenty four senators speak ang lish lit in the next election in 1922 the young men of the new schools will bo be stepping into control mid and the lie first great goal of the public school system will have been beef reached |