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Title: The Legacy of Ignorantism

Author: T.H. Pardo de Tavera

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The Legacy of Ignorantism

(Ignorantismo)

An address delivered before the Teachers
Assembly, Baguio, April 23, 1920

By

Dr. T. H. Pardo de Tavera

[English and Spanish]

Manila
Bureau of Printing
1921

THE LEGACY OF IGNORANTISM [1]
(IGNORANTISMO)

By Dr. T. H. Pardo de Tavera

An address [2] delivered before the Teachers, Assembly, Baguio,
April 23, 1920

Woe unto you, lawyers! for ye have taken
away the key of knowledge; ye entered not in
yourselves, and them that were entering in
ye hindered--Luke 11:52.

I have the honor to appear before you accepting with great pleasure an
invitation which the Assistant Director, Mr. Osias, kindly extended to
me. Having left the choice of the subject to my discretion, I deemed it
worth while to speak on the Lay Education which has been in operation
in our public schools since the implantation of the new regime which
rules the destiny of the Filipino people. I am going to confine myself
to facts, and shall speak as frankly and as faithfully as the case
requires, altho in so doing I may hurt the feelings of some.

Satisfying Movement

For some time in our society there has been a growing concern against
immorality, against vice, against idleness; in short against those
which can rightly be called social ill