Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Philippines, Vol. 2 of 2: Past and Present
Primary education for Filipinos secured no real foothold until In that year, by royal decree, a school system originally planned for Cuba was extended to the Philip pines. It made provision for the beginnings of primary instruction in all municipalities of the islands. A sum mary 4 called forth by a circular of March 1, 1866, gives information with regard to the progress actually made. This summary fixes the number of towns at nine hundred, the number of children attending school at one hundred thirty-five thousand boys and twelve thousand two hun dred sixty girls, and the number of schools at sixteen hundred seventy-four, but it gives the number of build ings actually in use for schools as only six hundred forty-one. Instruction in Spanish was not always, or even generally, given.
In 1863 provision was also made for the establishment of a normal school at Manila. In forty years later.
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