philippine studies Ateneo de Manila University • Loyola Heights, Quezon City • 1108 Philippines Social Engineering in the Philippines: The Aims and Execution of American Educational Policy, 1900 - 1913 Glenn A. May Philippine Studies vol. 24, no. 2 (1976) 135–183 Copyright © Ateneo de Manila University Philippine Studies is published by the Ateneo de Manila University. Contents may not be copied or sent via email or other means to multiple sites and posted to a listserv without the copyright holder’s written permission. Users may download and print articles for individual, noncom- mercial use only. However, unless prior permission has been obtained, you may not download an entire issue of a journal, or download multiple copies of articles. Please contact the publisher for any further use of this work at
[email protected]. http://www.philippinestudies.net Fri June 27 13:30:20 2008 Philippine Studies 24 (1916): 135-83 Social Engineering in the Philippines: The Aims and Execution of American Educational Policy, 1900-1913" GLENN A. MAY For more than four decades, American policy-makers engaged in self-conscious social engineering in the Philippines. Presidents, Cabinet officers, Congressmen and colonial administrators attempted to introduce fundamental changes in the social, political, and economic life of the archipelago. Almost all of them maintained, *I would like to acknowledge, with thanks, grants provided me by the Council on International Relations and the Council on Southeast Asian Studies, both of Yale University, which helped to defray my research expenses in American and Philippine archives. The following abbreviations and short forms will be used in the footnotes: BFM Blaine Free Moore Papers, (U.S.) Library of Congress, Manu- scripts Division.