http://www.seth-lesser-website.com Seth Lesser Website Thu, 10 Sep 2009 12:29:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://www.seth-lesser-website.com/seth-lesser/seth-lesser-publishes-works/comment-page-1/#comment-37 Seth Lesser: An Educator in the Philippines in the 1900s | Seth Lesser Website Thu, 10 Sep 2009 12:29:33 +0000 http://www.seth-lesser-website.com/?p=3#comment-37 [...] Seth Lesser came to the Southeast Asian archipelago along with his idealistic fellow-teachers with the noble vision of preparing the Filipinos for the difficult task of self-governance that lay in their horizon. They set out to establish a new public education system and to train Filipino teachers in basic education and in the use of the English language as medium of instruction. The credit of transforming the former Spanish colony into the third largest English-speaking country in the world, would later be conferred upon the Thomasites. His two older brothers who founded their own schools were also teachers. [...] [...] Seth Lesser came to the Southeast Asian archipelago along with his idealistic fellow-teachers with the noble vision of preparing the Filipinos for the difficult task of self-governance that lay in their horizon. They set out to establish a new public education system and to train Filipino teachers in basic education and in the use of the English language as medium of instruction. The credit of transforming the former Spanish colony into the third largest English-speaking country in the world, would later be conferred upon the Thomasites. His two older brothers who founded their own schools were also teachers. [...]

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