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EDUCATION FROM ANCIENT EARLY FILIPINOS

THE EDUCATION WAS INFORMAL AND UNSTRUCTURED.
THE FATHERS TAUGHT THEIR SONS HOW TO LOOK FOR FOOD AND OTHER MEANS OF
LIVELIHOOD. THE MOTHERS TAUGHT THEIR GIRLS TO DO THE HOUSEHOLD CHORES.

FILIPINO MEN AND WOMEN KNOWS HOW TO READ AND WRITE USING THEIR OWN NATIVE
ALPHABET CALLED ALIBATA.

THE ALIBATA WAS COMPOSED OF 17 SYMBOLS REPRESENTING THE LETTERS OF THE

ALPHABET.

ALIBATA

EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM DURING SPANISH PERIOD

THE EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM OF THE PHILIPPINES DURING THE SPANISH TIMES WAS FORMAL.
THE RELIGIOUS CONGREGATIONS PAVED THE WAY IN ESTABLISHING SCHOOLS FROM THE PRIMARY
LEVEL TO THE TERTIARY LEVEL OF EDUCATION.

THE SCHOOLS FOCUSED ON THE CHRISTIAN DOCTRINES.

THERE WAS A SEPARATE SCHOOL FOR BOYS AND GIRLS. THE WEALTHY FILIPINOS OR THE ILUSTRADOS
WERE ACCOMMODATED IN THE SCHOOLS.

THE FIRST EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM FOR STUDENTS IN THE COUNTRY WAS ESTABLISHED BY VIRTUE OF
THE EDUCATION DECREE OF 1863

EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM DURING SPANISH PERIOD

THE AUGUSTINIANS BUILT THE FIRST SCHOOL IN THE PHILIPPINES SITUATED IN CEBU IN 1565.
FIRST COLLEGE SCHOOL FOR THE BOYS WAS THE "COLEGIO DE SAN IGNACIO" ESTABLISHED BY THE JESUITS
IN MANILA IN 1589. THEY ALSO ESTABLISHED THE "COLEGIO DE SAN IDELFONSO" IN CEBU IN 1595.

IN 1601, "COLEGIO DE SAN JOSE" WAS ESTABLISHED.

1589, THE "ESCUELA PIA" WAS ENTRUSTED BY THE GOVERNMENT TO THE JESUITS. LATER, THIS WAS CALLED
ATENEO DE MUNICIPAL WHICH IS NOW THE FAMOUS ATENEO DE MANILA UNIVERSITY.

DOMINICANS ALSO MADE A NAME AS THEY ESTABLISHED ONE OF THE BEST UNIVERSITIES IN THE
PHILIPPINES, THE UNIVERSITY OF SANTO TOMAS, THAT WAS OPENED IN 1611.

IN 1630, THE DOMINICANS ESTABLISHED ANOTHER UNIVERSITY, THE "SAN JUAN DE LETRAN" FOR THE
ORPHANED BOYS.

EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM DURING AMERICAN PERIOD

THE COMMONWEALTH PROVIDED FREE EDUCATION IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS ALL OVER THE COUNTRY, IN
ACCORDANCE WITH THE 1935 CONSTITUTION.

EDUCATION ALSO EMPHASIZED NATIONALISM SO THE STUDENTS WERE TAUGHT ABOUT THE LIFE OF THE
FILIPINO HEROES.

VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND SOME HOUSEHOLD ACTIVITIES LIKE SEWING, COOKING, AND FARMING
WERE ALSO GIVEN IMPORTANCE.

GOOD MANNERS AND DISCIPLINE WERE ALSO TAUGHT TO THE STUDENTS.

THE INSTITUTE OF PRIVATE EDUCATION WAS ESTABLISHED IN ORDER TO OBSERVE PRIVATE SCHOOLS.
EXISTENCE OF "ADULT EDUCATION" IN ORDER TO GIVE FORMAL EDUCATION EVEN TO ADULTS.

EDUCATION DURING THE JAPANESE OCCUPATION

THE GOVERNMENT MADE SOME CHANGES IN THE SYSTEM OF EDUCATION IN FEBRUARY, 1942

TO STOP DEPENDING ON WESTERN COUNTRIES LIKE THE U.S., AND GREAT BRITAIN.
PROMOTE AND ENRICH THE FILIPINO CULTURE.
TO RECOGNIZE THAT THE PHILIPPINES IS A PART OF THE GREATER EAST ASIA CO-PROSPERITY SPHERE SO
THAT THE PHILIPPINES AND JAPAN WILL HAVE GOOD RELATIONS.

TO BE AWARE OF MATERIALISM TO RAISE THE MORALITY OF THE FILIPINOS.

TO LEARN AND ADOPT NIPPONGO AND TO STOP USING THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE.
TO SPREAD ELEMENTARY AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION.
TO DEVELOP LOVE FOR WORK.

EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM IN THE PRESENT PERIOD

PHILIPPINE EDUCATION IS PATTERNED AFTER THE AMERICAN SYSTEM, WITH ENGLISH AS THE MEDIUM OF
INSTRUCTION.

SCHOOLS ARE CLASSIFIED INTO PUBLIC (GOVERNMENT) OR PRIVATE (NON-GOVERNMENT).

GOVERNMENT UNDER PRESIDENT AQUINO FORMALLY ADOPTED THE K642 BASIC EDUCATION SYSTEM
KINDERGARTEN WAS FORMALLY MADE COMPULSORY BY VIRTUE OF THE KINDERGARTEN EDUCATION ACT OF 2012,
THE FORMER SYSTEM OF BASIC EDUCATION IN THE PHILIPPINES CONSISTS OF ONE-YEAR PRESCHOOL EDUCATION,
SIX-YEAR ELEMENTARY EDUCATION AND FOUR-YEAR HIGH SCHOOL EDUCATION.

ALTHOUGH PUBLIC PRESCHOOL, ELEMENTARY AND HIGH SCHOOL EDUCATION ARE PROVIDED FREE, ONLY PRIMARY
EDUCATION IS STIPULATED AS COMPULSORY ACCORDING TO THE 1987 PHILIPPINE CONSTITUTION.

President

Secretaries of Public
Instruction
Manuel Quezon Sergio Osmea
Jorge Bocobo
Secretary of Public
Instruction, Health, and
Public Welfare
Sergio Osmea
Sergio Osmea Carlos P. Romulo

Commissioner of Education,
Health and Public Welfare
N/A (Japanesse Claro M. Recto- published a
Occupation)
book Bajo los Cocoteros
(Under the Coconut Trees,
1911), a collection of his
poems in Spanish

Jose P. Laurel

Minister of Education
Camilio Osias

Term

Contribution to Educ

1935-1939 - created National Council

1939-1941 of Education
- approved Tagalog/Filipino

as the nat. language

1941-1944
1944-1945

1942-1943 -the teaching of Tagalog,

Philippine history, and
character education was
given priority. Love for
work and the dignity of
labor were also
emphasized.

1943-1945 - with his family,

established the Lyceum of

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