History of Education in the Philippines

1. PRE-SPANISH
TO SPANISH
PERIOD

2. PRE-SPANISH
PERIOD
✔ There was no formal schooling.
✔ Education was oral, practical, and hands on.
✔ Customs, Traditions & Home and community
✔ Practical Education
✔ They used a unique system of writing known as the “baybayin”

3. SPANISH
PERIOD
✔ Brought Formal Education
✔ Education was managed, supervised, and controlled by the friars.
✔ Education in the country was not uniform.
✔ The system of schooling was not structured, thus there were no grade levels.
✔ Upon learning local language and writing systems, they began teaching
Christianity, the Spanish language and culture.

4. SPANISH
PERIOD
✔ The friars or Spanish Missionaries established parochial schools linked with
churches to teach catechism to the natives
✔ Augustinian opened a parochial school in Cebu in 1565
✔ Franciscans took to the task of improving literacy in 1577 aside from the
teaching of new industrial and agricultural techniqes.
✔ Jesuits followed in 1581 as well as the Dominicans in 1587 setting up a school in
Bataan.

5. SPANISH
PERIOD
✔ Instruction was religion oriented.
✔ Education was limited only for the elites.
✔ Primary instruction was free.
✔ Teaching of Spanish language was compulsory.
✔ Education during this period was in adequate, suppressed and controlled.

6. SPANISH
PERIOD
✔ Tribal tutors was replaced by Spanish Missionaries and Friars
✔ Religion-Oriented-Catechism
✔ Schools for boys and for girls were then opened. Colegios for boys and Beaterios for girls.
✔ Colegios – equivalent to senior high school in the present
✔ Beaterios – a school meant to prepare them for a covenant and meant to prepare them for
secular womanhood.

7. SPANISH
PERIOD
✔ The Universidad de San Ignacio founded in Manila by the Jesuits in 1589 was the
first colegio.
✔ Introduced printing press to produce books in Spanish and Tagalog.
✔ Doctrina Christiana was an early book of Roman Catholic Catechism, written in
1593 by Fray Juan de Plascenscia, and is believed to be one of the earliest
books in the Philippines.

8. THE EDUCATIONAL
DECREE OF 1863
✔ Provided a free public education system in the Philippines, manages by the
government.
✔ The primary schools for boys and girls in each town.
✔ Normal school for male teacher.
✔ Normal schools for women teachers were not established until 1875.

9. THE EDUCATIONAL
DECREE OF 1863
✔ The curriculum required the study of Christian doctrine, values and history as well as reading and writing Spanish,
mathematics, agriculture, etiquette, singing., world geography, and Spanish history.
✔ Standardized the curriculum, and established normal schools, thus making systematized education available to the
masses.
✔ Despite the Decree of 1863, basic education in the Philippines remained inadequate for the rest of the Spanish
period, there wer not enough schools built. Teachers tended to use corporal punishment

10. MAJOR PROBLEMS IN
SPANISH PERIOD
✔ Lack of trained teachers
✔ Lack of teachers
✔ 150 teacher-missionaries to instruct over half a million inhabitants.
✔ Lack of funds, instructional materials, and in many instances school houses.
✔ Because of high needs, educational decree of 1863 was implemented