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Excerpt from The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Vol. 46: Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts; 1721-1739
Most of this volume consists of the educational ap pendix which is continued from the preceding vol ume. The only regular document presented shows the general history of the islands for the years 1721 1739 both politically and religiously. The greater interest in the volume centers about the appendix. For here we see the first systematic attempts at a uni versal education in the Philippines, the first real though rude awakening of the inert mass of a people to the facts of broader life by the government estab lishment of primary and normal schools. As might be expected the paternal element is chie¿y discern ible in the laws and regulations made by the govern ment. The complexities of the educational question, a problem that Spain would have been many years in solving, are well shown by the two documents which give the friar side of the matter.
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