Ed 216 (FOUNDATION OF EDUCATION)
HISTORY OF THE PHILIPPINE EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM
(Pre- Spanish and Spanish Era)
Dr. Sheila M. Ibrahim, E.D.D., MA.ED, MBA-HRM
INTRODUCTION:
Spain and America gave a big contribution in our educational system, that is why the
Philippine Educational System was pottered from the educational system of both Spain
and America.
In 1946- the Philippine Educational System was liberalized from the foreign countries,
then our educational system was radically change and it function independently.
PRE- SPANISH ERA
Education was informal, unstructured, and devoid of method. During the Pre-
Magellanic time, education was not that important. Children recieved education which
was unstructured and informal.
Children provided more vocational trainings and less academics. Education focus on
the development of skills in order to survive and get some necessary things they needed.
In fact literacy was only base in 3Rs which are reading, ‘riting, and rithmetic.
Parents trained their children informally. Mothers educated their female children in
housekeeping, weaving, basket making and other agriculture-related activities. Fathers
trained their male children in hunting, carpentry, agriculture, shipbuilding and mining.
They used unique system of writing known as the BAYBAYIN.
BAYBAYIN-
the term Baybayin means “to spell” in tagalog.
It is also known as ALIBATA, were in it is the ancient writing system that
was used before by the Filipinos.
ALIBATA
Alibata is an ancient writing system that was used in what is now the
Philippines. Although it was all but extinguished by Western
colonization. Variants of it are still used in parts of Mindoro and
Palawan, and it is also increasingly used by Filipino youth as a way to
express their identity.
The Pre-Spanish system of education underwent major changes during the Spanish
colonization.
TRIBAL TUTORS
Education was informal and unstructured.
Children were provided with vocational tranings and less academics by
parents and house of tribal tutors.
SPANISH MISSIONARIES
Education was “religion centered”
Educations for elite people only
Spanish is compulsory
Boys and girls school are separated
Inadequate, suppressed and controlled.
The priest called Babaylan provided a specialized training for would-be-priests.
SPANISH ERA
The educational system of the Philippines during the Spanish times was formal.
There was a separate school for boys and girls.
The wealthy Filipinos or the Ilustrados were accommodated in the schools.
The friars establish parochial schools linked with churches to teach catechism to the
natives.
Education was manage, supervised and controlled by the friars.
The focus of education during the Spanish Colonization of the Philippines was mainly
religious education.
The Spanish Missionaries established schools immediately after reaching the islands.
The Agustinian opened schools in Cebu in 1565.
Jesuits followed in 1581
The Dominican in 1587. Which started in school in their first mission at Bataan.
The Franciscans, 1577, immediately took the task of teaching improving literacy,
aside from the teaching of new industrial and agricultural techniques.
Educational Decree 1863
The first educational system for students in the country was established by virtue of the
Education Decree of 1863. In furtherance, the decree required the government to
provide school institutions for boys and girls in every town. As a consequence, the
Spanish schools started accepting Filipino students. It was during this time when the
intellectual Filipinos emerged. The Normal School was also established which gave men
the opportunity to study a three-year teacher education for the primary level.
The decree also provided for a normal school run by the Jesuits to educate male teachers
in Manila. Normal schools for women teachers were not established until 1875, in Nueva
Caceres.
REFERENCES:
Foundation of Education (Historical, Philosophical, lagal, Theological) by: Angel S. Recto, Vol. II
Foundation of Education (Historical, Philosophical, lagal, Theological) by: Francisco M. Zulueta,
Elda M. Maglaya
REFLECTION:
The Spanish Era gives big contribution in our country, because of them the
Filipino people learned the different moral values as well as the different christian
doctrine, like prayer. Because of them, we, filipinos nurtured ourselves to be a better
person. Because of the spanish the system of our education underwent a major
changes. We have the tribal tutors, they provide us vocational trainings. The religious
missionaries are religious centered they teach us the christian doctrines, the
separation of the schools for boys and girls.after several years, the educational system
of the philippines was already formal. They established normal schools, I have known
a school which was being stablished by the spaniards is the Western Mindanao State
University in Zamboanga City where I finished my Tertiary level. It was being start to
a named Zamboanga Normal School until it was named WMSU. Many normal school
which was estalished by the spanish like, Cebu Normal University, Philippine Normal
University, etc. Which they focuses the of the study of educational courses for teachers.
There are many priest who established schools, the following are the examples:
* AUGUSTINIAN-they estblished the Basilica Menore del Sto. Niño of Cebu City.
* JESUITS- they established the Ateneo University
* DOMINICANS- they established the University of Sto. Thomas and Colegio del San
Juan de Letran.
* FRANCISCAN- they established the Philippine Normal University, Siliman
University,and St. Paul University.
The spani gives us big impact in our educational system, they help us, norture
us to be a better person and also to be a Christ centered person.
Ed 216 (FOUNDATION OF EDUCATION)
HISTORY OF THE
PHILIPPINE
EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM
(Pre- Spanish and Spanish Era)
TOPIC
Dr. Sheila M. Ibrahim, E.D.D., MA.ED, MBA-HRM
PROFESSOR
MARTHONY B. YECLA
REPORTER
