Educational System During The Spanish Regime: Object Ive

Educational System During the
Spanish Regime
O B J E C T I V E
 Describe the educational system during the Spanish regime.
 Identify the effects of the Spanish educational system to the Filipinos today.
INTRODUCTION
Educational system plays a vital role in molding the future of a nation. In this lesson
we will figure out the educational system during the Spanish regime and its effects to
the Filipino.
ABSTRACTION
There are lots of criticisms received in the educational system of the Philippines in the
late 19th century. Below are the following:
1.Overemphasis on religious matters

The power of religious orders remained one of the great constants, over the centuries,
of Spanish colonial rule. The friars of the Augustinian, Dominican, and Franciscan
orders conducted many of the executive and control functions of government on the
local level. They were responsible for education and health measures. These
missionaries emphasized the teachings of the Catholic religion starting from the
primary level to the tertiary level of education.
2.Obsolete teaching methods
3.Limited curriculum
The students in the primary level were taught the Christian Doctrines, the reading of
Spanish books and a little of the natives’ language. Science and Mathematics were not
very much taught to the students even in the universities. Aside from the Christian
Doctrines taught, Latin was also taught to the students instead of Spanish.
4.Poor classroom facilities

5.Absence of teaching materials
6.Primary education was neglected
7.Absence of academic freedom

The absence of academic freedom in Spain’s educational system was extended to the
schools that Spaniards established in the Philippines. Learning in every level was
largely by rote. Students memorized and repeated the contents of book which they did
not understand. In most cases knowledge was measured in the ability of the students
to memorize, largely hampering intellectual progress.
8.Prejudice against Filipinos in the schools of higher learning
In entirety, education during the Spanish regime was privileged only to Spanish
students. The supposed Philippine education was only a means to remain in the
Philippines as colonizers. For this reason, the Filipinos became followers to the
Spaniards in their own country. Even auspicious Filipinos became cronies, to the
extent that even their life styles were patterned from the Spaniards.
9.Friar control over the system

The friars controlled the educational system during the Spanish times. They owned
different schools, ranging from the primary level to the tertiary levels of education.
The missionaries took charge in teaching, controlling and maintaining the rules and
regulations imposed to the students.
Spanish Influence on the Philippine Educational System

Philippine education before the Spaniards came was informal and unstructured.
Parents were the children’s first teachers. For schools, the children went to the houses
of tribal tutors where they were taught vocational subjects or what we could consider
today as electives. During the Spanish period, the tribal tutors were replaced by
Spanish missionaries and education became religion-oriented.
Education became exclusively for the elite in the early years in the Spanish rule. Later
education became accessible to Filipinos with the enactment of the Education Decree
of 1863. This decree provided for the establishment of at least one primary school in
each town. It also provided for the establishment of a normal school for male teachers.
Normal schools (teacher-training schools) were supervised by the Jesuits. Primary
education was free. Spanish as a subject was compulsory.
Well done! You have just finished Lesson 3 of this module. If there are some parts of
the lesson which you need clarification, please ask your teacher during your face-to-
face interactions. Now if you are ready, please proceed to Lesson 4 of this module
which will discuss about the Abuses of the Guardia Civil, Church officials and
Political leaders.

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Educational System During the

1.Overemphasis on religious matters

2.Obsolete teaching methods

4.Poor classroom facilities

7.Absence of academic freedom

9.Friar control over the system

Spanish Influence on the Philippine Educational System

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