A HISTORY OF THE

SYSTEM OF
EDUCATION IN THE
PHILIPPINES
ANCIENT TIMES

Mothers taught their Fathers taught Baybayin was the

daughters Cooking, their sons to be language used to
gardening, serving warriors, hunters, teach children to
and other household fishermen, read and write on
chores. shipbuilders etc. leaves.
 ANCIENT TIMES
•AIM OF EDUCATION: FOR SURVIVAL,
CONFORMITY AND ENCULTURATION
•NATURE OF EDUCATION: INFORMAL AND
UNSTRUCTURAL
•TEACHERS: PARENTS
•SCHOOL: HOME
•LANGUAGE: BAYBAYIN
•BOTHOAN-
BARANGAY SCHOOL IN ANCIENT PANAY
ISLAND OF VISAYAS
o ARITHMETIC
o READING
o RELIGION
o WRITING
o USE OF WEAPONS

TEACHER: OLD MAN/ WOMAN IN THE

BARANGAY ( known as “village”)
 SPANISH EDUCATION

AIM: MAKE NATIVE FILIPINOS OBEDIENT AND

GOD FEARING CHRISTIANS
SPANISH EDUCATION

Primary schools, colleges and universities were established in

our country by missionaries.
SPANISH EDUCATION
NATURE OF EDUCATION:
oEDUCATION WAS FORMAL AND UNDER THE
SUPERVISION OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH
oBOYS AND GIRLS STUDIED SEPARATELY
oPRIMARY INSTRUCTION WAS FREE
SPANISH EDUCATION
TEACHERS WERE SPANISH PRIESTS
WHAT DO THEY TEACH?
oMOSTLY CATHOLIC RELIGION
oLATIN AND SPANISH LANGUAGE
METHOD OF TEACHING
oCATECHETICAL INSTRUCTION
oUSE OF CORPORAL PUNISHMENT
oROTE LEARNING
 SPANISH EDUCATION
• PAROCHIAL SCHOOLS
o FIRST SCHOOLS
oREADING, WRITING, ARITHMETIC AND SOME
VOCATIONAL AND PRACTICAL ARTS SUBJECTS WERE
TAUGHT TO CHILDREN

• COLLEGE FOR BOYS AND GIRLS

(PRESENTLY KNOWN AS “HIGH SCHOOLS” )
oRELIGION, HISTORY, LATIN, GEOGRAPHY,
MATHEMATICS AND PHILOSOPHY WERE TAUGHT
 SPANISH EDUCATION
• UNIVERSITY EDUCATION
oOPEN ONLY FOR SPANIARDS AND
MESTIZOS (THOSE WITH SPANISH
BLOOD LIKE JOSE RIZAL)
o19TH CENTURY, THEY BEGAN
ACCEPTING NATIVE FILIPINOS AND
GOVERNMENT TOOK PART OF THE
EDUCATION.
 SPANISH EDUCATION
• EDUCATION DECREE OF 1863
oTO ESTABLISH AT LEAST TWO FREE PRIMARY
SCHOOLS, ONE FOR BOYS AND ANOTHER FOR
GIRLS, IN EACH TOWN UNDER THE
RESPONSIBILITY OF THE MUNICIPAL
GOVERNMENT.
oIT ALSO COMMENDED THE CREATION OF A
FREE PUBLIC NORMAL SCHOOL TO TRAIN
MEN AS TEACHERS, SUPERVISED BY THE
JESUITS.
EDUCATION UNDER THE AMERICANS
EDUCATION UNDER THE AMERICANS
•AIM: TO EDUCATE AND TRAIN IN
THE SCIENCE OF SELF
GOVERNMENT
•ENGLISH LANGUAGE WAS TAUGHT
TO NATIVE FILIPINOS
•TEACHERS: AMERICAN SOLDIERS
EDUCATION UNDER THE AMERICANS
• LEVELS OF EDUCATION
o FIRST LEVEL (ELEMENTARY)
4 YEAR PRIMARY
3 -7 YEAR INTERMEDIATE
oSECOND LEVEL (HIGH SCHOOL)
4 YEAR HIGH SCHOOL
oTHIRD LEVEL (COLLEGE)
TWO YEAR JUNIOR COLLEGE, LATER BECAME A
4 YEAR PROGRAM
 EDUCATION UNDER THE AMERICANS
oFREE PRIMARY EDUCATION
oCOMPULSORY RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION
WAS ABOLISHED
oSCHOOLS WERE ESTABLISHED FOR
FILIPINO TEACHERS TO BE TRAINED
TEACHERS IN AMERICA
 EDUCATION UNDER THE AMERICANS
•PENSIONADOS (SCHOLARS)
oFILIPINOS WHO WERE GIVEN OPPORTUNITIES TO TAKE
UP HIGHER EDUCATION IN THE US.
oUS GOVERNMENT FINANCED THEIR EDUCATION
oUNTIL 1928, HUNDREDS FILIPINO PENSIONADOS
WERE ABLE TO STUDY IN US WHO BECAME THE
FUTURE CIVIC, BUSINESS AND POLITICAL LEADERS OF
THE PHILIPPINES.
EDUCATION UNDER THE COMMONWEALTH
(1935)

Manuel L. Quezon
EDUCATION UNDER THE COMMONWEALTH
(1935)
•PRINCIPAL AIM: DEVELOP MORAL
CHARACTER, PERSONAL DISCIPLINE,
CIVIC CONSCIENCE AND VOCATIONAL
EFFICIENCY
EDUCATION UNDER THE COMMONWEALTH
(1935)
• NATIONAL COUNCIL OF EDUCATION
oCREATED BY PRESIDENT MANUEL QUEZON IN 1963 AS
AN ADVISORY BODY ON EDUCATIONAL MATTERS.
oMADE IMPORTANT RECOMMENDATIONS TO
IMPROVE THE EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM IN THE
PHILIPPINES.
oVOCATIONAL AND ADULT EDUCATION WERE GIVEN
EMPHASIS
Manuel L. Quezon
EDUCATION UNDER THE COMMONWEALTH
(1935)
EDUCATION UNDER THE COMMONWEALTH
(1935)
• FILIPINO(TAGALOG)
oTHE NATIONAL LANGUAGE
• CODE OF ETHICS
oTO HELP STRENGTHEN THE MORAL
FIBERS OF THE FILIPINOS AND TO
FOSTER LOVE OF COUNTRY ESPECIALLY
AMONG YOUTH.
 EDUCATION UNDER THE COMMONWEALTH
(1935)
• EDUCATIONAL ACT OF 1940
oELEMENTARY COURSE WAS REDUCED FROM 7
YEARS TO 6 YEARS
oMINIMUM AGE FOR ADMISSION TO GRADE I
WAS RAISED TO 7
oSCHOOL CALENDAR WAS ALSO CHANGED SO
INSTEAD OF THE SCHOOL YEAR FROM JUNE TO
MARCH, IT WAS CHANGED TO JULY TO APRIL.
EDUCATION UNDER THE JAPANESE
EDUCATION UNDER THE JAPANESE
• AIM: SPREAD THE NEW ASIAN
ORDER
• PROPAGANDA TOOL:
REPRESSIVELY ANTI AMERICAN
AND ANTI BRITISH, MILITARY
BACKED EXISTENCE OF AN
EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM
 EDUCATION UNDER THE JAPANESE
• WHAT DO THEY TEACH? • METHOD OF TEACHING
oVOCATIONAL EDUCATION, oROTE LEARNING
oTECHNICAL AND oUSE OF THREAT
AGRICULTURAL oPUNISHMENT
oLOVE FOR LABOR
o NIPPONGO LANGUAGE
oTAGALOG
oPHILIPPINE HISTORY
oCHARACTER EDUCATION
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