SECONDARY EDUCATION
Academic course, 1883–84
| Registration of matriculation | Studies of application | ||
| College of Santo Tomás, |  | 3,561 | 274 |
| Idem of San Juan de Letrán, | |||
| Ateneo Municipal, | 665 | 84 | |
| Private schools (generalstudies), | 614 | ||
SUPERIOR EDUCATION
Academical course for 1883–84
| Registration of matriculation | |
| Theology, | 65 |
| Canon law, | 3 |
| Jurisprudence | 232[4] |
| Notary, | 15 |
| Medicine, | 395 |
| Pharmacy, | 102 |
| Practitioners of medicine, | 72 |
| Practitioners of pharmacy, | 19 |
| Midwives, | 12 |
By means of the incomplete data which precede, and it is a fact that they do not exist in more exact form or of more recent date in the Ministry of the Colonies, it is easy to recognize the great results which can be obtained in regard to making reading and writing general among the Indians, and in seeing that they learn the Castilian language, for only a very small fraction of them know it very superficially.
Some advance has been made since the establishment of the normal school. But there is still much to do, and it is necessary that so crying a need be considered with the haste and decision that this important matter demands.
The establishment of schools of arts and crafts will also be very convenient and useful, and truly they will be productive of great results. Everything which contributes to the propagation of the teaching of industries, to the creation of superintendents and assistants of public works, master-masons, and all that relates to these matters, ought to be encouraged, and must be an advantageous and efficacious blessing to the natives of that country, who are extremely skilful in all the imitative arts and crafts, rather than for the studies which demand the employment of the superior faculties of the intelligence.[5]