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ERRORS FOUND IN SOME BOOKS ON THE PHILIPPINES WHICH AMERICAN SCHOOL CHILDREN ARE USING

Gregorio C. Borlaza

Discipline: History

 

Abstract:

Brief Historical Background

In 1961, when the writer had a chance to visit some colleges and universities in the United States, he noted a dearth of courses in non-Western culture, especially on Asian culture, in the curricula of the institutions visited. He mentioned this observation in the course of his conversations with the presidents and college deans concerned, particularly during a talk with Dean E. C. Merril and the faculty of the College of Education of the Univ­ersity of Tennessee at Knoxville on November 30, 1961.1

Shortly after his return to the Philippines the writer received a letter from Dean Merril, informing him that he had not forgotten what the writer had told him about the dearth of non-Western culture in American college curricula, and that “we are doing something about it.” What they were doing about it was described in another letter of Dean Merril dated January 21, 1965, while the writer was under­going an internship in college administration at the Wisconsin State University in Stevens Point.