The exhibit of Cuba in the Department of Education comprised the whole educational system from the kindergarten to the university.  For the organization of this exhibit the secretary of public instruction, Dr. Leopolds Cancio, appointed a committee of seven.  The committee issued several circulars inviting the teachers to contribute to the educational exhibit.

Toward the beginning of March the first contributions began to arrive, and in the early days of April the first shipment was made.  This was followed by others, and by the 25th of April all the educational exhibits were in the various booths and ready for display.

This exhibit was classified in groups 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, and 8, which left the only two groups, 5 and 7, in which it was not represented.

In group 1 it was represented by the normal school of kindergarten of Habana, and by kindergarten public schools of Habana, Guanabacoa, Matanzas, Gardenas, Sagua la Grande, and Cienfuegos, by elementary public and private schools from most of the school districts of the country, by a teachers’ academy, and by training and correctional schools for boys and girls.

In group 2 the six public secondary schools of the country were represented by photographs, reports, collections of shells and butterflies, pupils’ work and reports.

The “San Alijandro” School of Painting and Sculpture of Habana appeared with a report and photographs in group 4.

In group 6 the School of Arts and Trades of Habana had a very good display of manual training and photographs.

Correspondence schools, the Academy of Science, meteorological and magnetical observations of the Belen Observatory, geological collections, text-books, school appliances, and a collection of the text-books used at the present and of those used under the Spanish Government in the public schools were all classified in group 8.

One of the most important features of the exhibit was the display of photographs showing over 500 views of schoolrooms, school buildings, groups of teachers and children, institutions of secondary education, institutions of special education, and the university.

In these photographs the department showed the best schools, such as “Luz y Caballero,” of Habana, and the “Eseulen Modelo,” of Santiago de Cuba, and the least advanced rural schools located in thatched-roof huts 20 or more miles from the nearest town.

The exhibit showed not only the great increase in the last few years in the number of schools and in the school expenditures, both of which have increased about tenfold, but the great change undergone in the methods of teaching, which at present accord with the most modern standards, the old methods having been entirely abolished from the public schools.