The document provides information about education during different periods in Philippine history and discusses key aspects of Philippine literature during the colonial period including: 1) Education focused on religion during the Spanish regime, vocational skills during the American regime, and is the current nationalized system. 2) Philippine literature emerged during the American colonial period which is divided into the apprenticeship and emergence periods, and discusses genres, themes and notable writers from this time including Paz Marquez Benitez and her short story "Dead Stars".