Note 10 — Chapter XIII · (continued 2)

The Spanish government evinced a great interest “in giving the Filipinos a primary education commensurate with the standing of a civilized nation; but the intentions of the government were frustrated by ... the religious orders.” The “great error of the Spanish nation” consisted “in placing in the hands of a few institutions [the religious orders] the future of her colonies in the extreme east, institutions which did not exist in their native country, and which sought only the private interests of the corporation or order to which they belonged. This entire plan of public instruction lived in the minds of the Spanish legislators, but was never put into practice.” Tomás G. del Rosario, in Census of Philippines, iii, p. 582. ↑