Creation of Office of Adult Education

Section 1 creates the Office of Adult Education to carry out constitutional provisions on adult education.
Section 3 declares the objectives of adult education as eliminating illiteracy and providing vocational and citizenship training.

Section 1 establishes an office under the Department of Public Instruction known as the Office of Adult Education.
Section 2 assigns the Office institutional functions through surveys, program preparation, school organization, and coordination with other government bureaus and organizations.

Section 2 requires the Office to initiate and conduct surveys to determine the extent and distribution of illiteracy among adults.
Section 2 requires the Office to enlist the interest and cooperation of organizations for adult education activities.
Section 2 requires the Office to prepare a comprehensive program for adult education work.
Section 2 requires the Office to organize and supervise schools and classes for adults.
Section 2 requires the Office to disseminate instructive cultural and vocational information.
Section 2 requires the Office to secure lecturers, demonstrators, extension and follow-up workers for adult education.
Section 2 requires the Office to train teachers and community organizers for adult education.
Section 2 requires cooperation with the Bureaus of Education, Health, Science, Plant Industry, Commerce and Labor in vocational training and improvements of living conditions.
Section 2 requires cooperation with the Philippine Library Association for establishing public libraries that better serve adult educational needs.
Section 2 requires the Office to prepare statistics and reports on its activities and the means for carrying out its objectives.

Section 3 requires adult education programs to be directed toward eliminating illiteracy.
Section 3 requires adult education to provide vocational and citizenship training.

Section 4 provides that the head of the Office is the Director of Adult Education, known as the Chief of the Office of Adult Education.
Section 4 sets the Director’s annual compensation not exceeding five thousand pesos, to be fixed by the President of the Commonwealth.
Section 4 limits subordinate personnel by requiring their aggregate salaries not to exceed ten thousand pesos per annum, to be fixed by the Secretary of Public Instruction.
Section 4 provides that the Director is appointed by the President of the Philippines with the consent of the Commission on Appointments of the National Assembly.
Section 4 provides that subordinate personnel are appointed by the Director with the approval of the Secretary of Public Instruction.

Section 5 prohibits paying salaries from national government funds appropriated for adult education promotion to teachers or other persons engaged in adult education work.
Section 5 allows an exception: the Director of Adult Education may, in his discretion, authorize payment of moderate allowances to persons who regularly hold classes from month to month.

Section 6 requires that amounts set aside for adult education be spent mainly for:
- printing charts, books, pamphlets, and other school materials; and
- defraying traveling and other necessary expenses of persons engaged in the work.
Section 7 appropriates one hundred thousand pesos from any funds of the Philippine Treasury not otherwise appropriated for carrying out the Act.

Section 8 grants that publications of the Office—charts, books, pamphlets, circulars, diplomas, and leaflets—have free use of the mails.