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sufficient quantities to be marketed in the regular commercial 

 channels it is a proper function of government to find or create 

 a market for it. 



Inasmuch as the Bureau of Education is charged with estab- 

 lishing new industries and encouraging the introduction of de- 

 veloped industries into new localities, the operation of a sales 

 department for the purchase of the articles fabricated under 

 the supervision of the Bureau, would place under one head 

 those departments which logically go together — that is, plan- 

 ning, production, and sales. 



The plan proposed by the Bureau of Education and approved 

 by the Executive Secretary, whereby the provincial governments 

 are permitted to purchase the products of household industries 

 from the people for cash and sell these on consignment should 

 be put into effect. 



Undoubtedly, if the business of selling household products 

 were large enough to justify the establishment of an independ- 

 ent organization, it would be advantageous to keep the public 

 schools free from a purely commercial enterprise. Until the 

 business becomes large enough to justify the maintenance of 

 an independent branch of the Government, however, it would 

 seem that the best disposition of the matter would be to impose 

 upon the Bureau of Education the duty of finding a market for 

 these articles. 



THE FUTURE RESTS UPON THE SCHOOLS 



Most of the progress in all lines, and particularly in agricul- 

 tural and industrial development, will be dependent upon the 

 extent to which the school system of the Islands is developed 

 and the direction which education takes. It is impossible to 

 have an efficient farmer on the land and a competent wife and 

 mother in the home unless they first be given a sound and prac- 

 tical education. 



The sort of education the Filipino needs is not essentially 

 different from that which is needed by other people. Every- 

 where the useful and the practical are being emphasized in the 

 school course. 



The Danes, the most efficient farmers in the world, have found 

 in the practical course of study of their public schools the touch- 

 stone of national prosperity. 



Already much emphasis is laid upon agricultural and other 

 vocational subjects in the schools of the Islands. In fact, one 

 cannot help being impressed with the practical nature of the 

 instruction offered in the schools and the adaptation of this 



