The document outlines the key principles of community education. It states that community education aims to serve the entire community by meeting the educational needs of all its members. It seeks to bridge the gap between school and life by developing personality and character through utilizing community resources and activities. The goal is to make the local community a better place to live and promote democracy through all school and community activities.

2. It is a philosophy under which the school
serves the entire community by providing
for all the educational needs of all of its
community members.

3. • Philippine community life is essentially rural in nature.
• The houses are generally with light materials, built along streams, near
rivers, and sea coasts, highways, or in a plain, away from the noise of
crowded cities or towns.
• Many barrios in the Philippines have their school houses constructed
largely through voluntary contributions and free labor.
• A barrio is under a ‘’teniente’’ or ‘’barrio barangay’’ who administers
the local affair and looked up as a leader and a government official.

4. • Education refers to the dynamic social function of
the school designed to meet more inclusive
individual and social needs of all persons at any
stage of their development.
• The term community is generally defined as ‘’a
group living in one locality or region under the
same culture and having a common educational
point of view, the community is the fundamental
unit of learning and teaching.

5. • Community education seeks to bridge the gap
between the school and life, to develop
personality and character, to make a local
community a better place in which to live.
• It regards the learner as an out-reaching,
exploring organism.
• Its task is to broaden and deepen experiences, to
liberate intelligence, and to increase appreciation
of social values.

6. • To meet the needs and provide for the interests of
the people of the community. To develop the child
both as an individual and as useful member of
society.
• To utilize the community resources and activities
on its educational program.
• To promote democracy in all the activities of the
school and the community.

7. • To organize the school curriculum around the
major processes and problems of the community
living.
• To stimulate children and adults toward
cooperative group projects of common interests
and mutual concern.
• To broaden and deepen experiences, to liberate
intelligence, and to increase appreciation of social
values.

8. • The teachers play an important part in developing social order.
• The school must possess adequate plan, an adequate and trained
staff qualified to carry forward the huge community program.
• The school principal must be given the full control of the school
buildings and ground.
• Adult education program must be made a regular part of the
school program in the community.
• Progress is challenging education in the name of human right.

9. • If the community is to serve its purpose fully, the public must work
with other agencies for the promotion of a broad educational
movement for the country as a whole.
• The success of the community education must be measured in terms
of community betterment and social improvement.
• All activities, resources and conditions in the community must be
analyzed.
• The school administration should utilize the Parent-Teacher
Association as an agency for integrating school and community
program.