Our books extolled the Western nations as people by superior beings because they were capable of manufacturing things that we never thought we were capable of producing. We were pleased by the fact that our raw materila exports could pay for the American consumption goods that we had to import. We now are used to these types of goods, and it is a habit we find hard to break, to the detriment of our own economy. We never thought that we too could industrialize because in school, we were taught that we were primarily an agricultural country by geographical location by the innate potentiality of our people...

The pathetic result of this failure of Philippine education is a citizenry amazingly naive and trusting in its relations with foreigners, devoid of the capacity to feel indignation even in the face of insults to the nation, ready to acquiesce and even to help aliens in the despoliation of our natural wealth. Why are the great majority of our people so complaisant about alien economic control? Much of the blame must be laid at the door of colonial education. Colonial education has not provided us with a realistic attitude toward other nations, especially Spain and the United States. The emphasis in our study of history has been on the great gifts that our conquerors have bestowed upon us. A mask of benevolence was used to hide the cruelties and deceit of early American occupation. The nobel sentiments expressed by McKinley were emphasized rather than the ulterior motives of conquest. The myth of friendship and special relations is even now continually invoked to camouflage the continuing iniquites in our relationship. Nurtured in this kind of education, the Filipino mind has come to regard centuries of colonial status as a grace from above rather than as scourge...The American architects of our colonial education really labored shrewdly and well