Education
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| Location | Philippine Exhibit |
|---|---|
| No. of Buildings | 1 |
| Construction | |
| Construction Cost | $19,711 ($594,474 in 2021) |
The Education Building, On the Plaza Santa Cruz in the Philippine Exhibit was a reproduction of one of the most noted native cathedrals.
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The education building had exhibits related to education in the Philippines. The exhibits range from kindergarten to university. This included blocks of wood turned by pupils in the Moro industrial school in Zamboanga, Mindanao, and essays on pedagogical subjects by students in the Normal School at Manila. There was a great collection of letters from Filipino children written in English. The purpose was to distribute these letters among American teachers who visited the World’s Fair, and to ask that they be answered and that correspondence be carried on with the Filipino pupils to their advantage. The figures given in connection with the Education Exhibits show that, in 1904, there were 2,900 schools where over 200,000 children in the primary grades are being taught. The 800 American teachers who went to the Philippines have been joined by many native teachers.
