2. Introduction:
Education in the Philippines undergone graduated changes
from early settlers to the present. Education is of great
importance because it’s a main avenue for us Filipinos to
achieve our social and economic success. Education in the
Philippines has a very deep history from the past in which it
has undergone several stages of development from ancient
Filipinos or the indios, Spanish occupation, American
colonization and Japanese era up to the present system.
3. Education before Spanish
Regime
•The education during the Pre-Spanish time was
informal and unstructured. The fathers taught their
sons how to look for food and other means of
livelihood while the mothers taught their daughters
how to do household chores. These are basically to
prepare them to become good husbands and wives.
During that time they know how to read and write
using the Alibata.
4. The Beginning
Then the Spanish came and the education system
became formal. Their objective is to teach the
natives the Christian Doctrines using the
“Doctrina Christiana” along with catechism,
which main targets are the children because they
can easily learn and follow unlike adults who
already have their own beliefs.
5. The Early Period
During the early years of Spanish colonization,
education was mostly religion oriented and
controlled by the Roman Catholic Church. Spanish
friars and missionaries educated the natives
through religion with the aim of converting
indigenous populations to the Catholic faith.
6. System of Writing during the Spanish Regime was
Latin Alphabet. ALBOLADORA
7. Formal School was Introduce
The first formal schools in the land were the
parochial schools opened in their parishes by the
missionaries such as Augustinians, Franciscans,
Jesuits and Dominicans. Aside from religion the
native children were taught reading, writing,
arithmetic and some vocational and practical
arts subjects.
8. The Augustinians opened a school immediately
upon arriving in Cebu in 1565. Augustinians Friars
9.
10. The Jesuits who arrived in 1581 also
concentrated on teaching the young. When
the Dominicans arrived in 1587, they did the
same thing Jesuits Priests
11. The friars were effective in evangelizing the Catholic
religion to the Filipinos. One major failure of the
educational system of the religious congregations
was the withholding of the Filipinos to learn other
bodies of knowledge. Education during the Spanish
regime was privileged only to Spanish students.
Several educated Filipinos referred to as “ilustrados”
began movements directed towards change in the
system of government in the Philippines.
12. The Chinese language version of the Doctrina
Christiana (Christian Doctrine) was the first book
printed in the Philippines in about 1590 to 1592.
13. In 1610 Tomas Pinpin Villasanta a Filipino printer,
writer and publisher, who is sometimes referred
as the "Patriarch of Filipino Printing", wrote his
famous Librong Pagaaralan nang manga Tagalog
nang Uicang Castilla, that was meant to help
Filipinos learn the Spanish language.
The prologue read:
“Let us therefore study, my country men, for although the art of
learning is somewhat difficult, yet if we are persevering, we shall
soon improve our knowledge. Other Tagalogs like us did not take
a year to learn the Spanish language when using my book. This
good result has given me satisfaction and encouraged me to print
my work, so that all may derive some profit from it.”
14. MODERN PUBLIC SYSTEM OF
EDUCATION
Modern public-school education was introduced in Spain only in
1857. Free access to modern public education by all Filipinos was
made possible through the enactment of the Education Decree of
December 20, 1863 by Queen Isabella II. The Education Decree of
1863 provided for the establishment of at least two free primary
schools, one for boys and another for girls, in each town under
the responsibility of the municipal government. It also
commended the creation of a free public normal school to train
men as teachers, supervised by the Jesuits.
15. One of these schools was the Escuela
Normal Elemental, which, in 1896 became
the Escuela Normal Superior de Maestros de
Manila (The Normal School) for male
teachers. The Spanish government also
established a School for midwives in 1879,
and a Normal School for female teachers in
1892, the Escuela Normal Superior de
Maestras.
16. Educational Decree 1863
1. The first educational system for students in the country was
established by virtue of the Education Decree of 1863.
2. The decree required the government to provide school institutions
for boys and girls in every town.
3. Spanish schools started accepting Filipino students
4. The Normal School was also established.
5. The friars controlled the educational system during the Spanish
6. The missionaries took charge in teaching, controlling and maintaining
the rules and regulations imposed to the students.
17. What is the role of 19th Century
Education in the life of Rizal and in
the Philippine Independence?
18. • As a result of increasing the number of educated Filipinos a new social
class raised, that came to be known as the Ilustrados. Furthermore,
with the opening of Suez Canal in 1869 travel to Spain become
quicker, easier and more affordable, and many Filipinos took
advantage of it to continue higher education in Spain and Europe,
mostly in Madrid and Barcelona. This new enlightened class of
Filipinos would later lead the Philippine independence movement,
using the Spanish language as their main communication method. The
most prominent of the Ilustrados was José Rizal, who inspired the
desire for independence with his novels written in Spanish. Other
Filipino intellectuals, such as Graciano López Jaena,
Marcelo H. del Pilar, Mariano Ponce or Antonio Luna, who had also
studied in Spain, began contributing to the cause for Filipino self-
government and independence.