TOPICS:

The Educational Philosophies Of Filipino Educators

Filipino Values and Human Development
Philosophy of Catholic Education in the Philippines
The Evolution of the Educational Philosophy in
the Philippines

Prepared by:
MENCHIE F. FABRO
SST I- Ferrol National High School-Ferrol Romblon

The Educational
Philosophies
Of Filipino Educators

Jose Rizal
Rizals concept of the importance of
education is enunciated in his work
entitled Instruction wherein he sought
improvements in the schools and in the
methods of teaching.

Jose Rizal
For Rizal, the mission of education is to
elevate the country to the highest seat of
glory and to develop the peoples mentality.
Since Education is the foundation of
society and a prerequisite for social
progress, Rizal claimed that only through
education could the country be saved
from domination.

Jose Rizal
Rizals philosophy of education, therefore,
centers on the provision of proper
motivation in order to bolster the great
social forces that make education a success,
to create in the youth an innate desire to
cultivate his intelligence and give him life
eternal.

Jose Rizal

He believed in the importance of the school

as a social organization.
According to him, the school must train the
citizens in the three phases of life:
1. Moral
2. Intellectual
3. Physical

The
school
should
prepare the individual to
live efficiently both as
individual
and
as
a
member of the community
to which he belongs.

ose Rizal educational philosophi

The school is the book in which is
written the future of the nations. Shows
us the schools of a people and we will
tell you what those people are.

Dr. Camilo Osias

School has an important role in the development of
dynamic nationalism and internationalism in
relation to democracy in the education of the
youth.
High educational institutions should do more to
turn out graduates who can think logically,
scientifically and creatively.
Our education should
instill love for work, spirit of
tolerance, respect for law,
love for peace and practice
of thrift.

Dr. Camilo Osias

Dr. Osias believed that education should secure

for every person the fullest measure of freedom,
efficiency, and happiness. Efficiency, he demands
that one must be able to cooperate with the other
members of the society to promote common good.
He also advocated that the educational system
must contribute towards the achievement of the
goals of education by inculcating their minds and
hearts of the youth the value of
preserving
the patrimony of the
country promoting
the general
welfare of he people.

Dr. Osias suggestions to Philippine schools:

1.
2.
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4.
5.
6.
7.

Preserve the solidarity of Filipino;

Maintain the unity of the Philippines;
Work out a proper equilibrium in economic order;
Develop social justice;
Observe the merit system in government service;
Promote peace and national defense;
Uphold the inalienable rights of life, property,
liberty, and happiness;
8. Keep in their prestige majesty the fundamental
freedom, especially freedom of speech, freedom of
press, freedom of peace and assembly, and freedom
of worship;
9. Conserve the principle of equality;
10.Hold high the ideals of religion;
11.Keep over aloft the torch of education, and
12.Make democracy a living and functional reality.

Rafael Palma

Palma advocated academic freedom.

The teacher is not supposed to dramatize. He

has no right to impose on his students his theories
or personal belief. He is expected to stimulate free
discussion, leaving to his students the choice of the
system of thought which best satisfies their reason.

Rafael Palma
The primary purpose of education, according
to Palma, is to develop the individual to his
highest efficiency so that he can be of use to
himself and to the community. Such a concept is
based on the philosophy of altruism and is closely
allied to citizenship.

afael Palmas Educational Philosoph

Education
must
produce
individuals who are both useful to
themselves and to society.

Jorge
Bocobo
He prepared himself well for any task that

awaited him. Into any undertaking, he always

put the best of his energies and, to use his own
expression, "made the failure of any work
which I undertake my own failure, its success
my own success."

Jorge Bocobo

He stressed that Filipino culture and tradition

should be the bases of education in the
Philippines.
According to him, the educational concept is
closely related to nationalism and love of country.
He also stressed that education in this country
should prepare the child for the democratic way
of life.

Jorge Bocobos Educational

Philosophies
To my humble way of thinking education
(college) has for its supreme and
overshadowing aim the formulation of a
sound and noble outlook of life.

Apolinario Mabinis Educational

Philosophies:

Thou shalt cultivate the special gifts

which had been granted thee, working
and studying according to thy ability,
never leaving the path of righteousness
and justice in order to attain thine own
perfection.

T.H Pardo de Taveras Educational

Philosophies:
Our education should instill love
for work, spirit of tolerance, respect
for law, love for peace and practice of
thrift.

Francisco Benitezs Educational

Philosophies
The qualities that should distinguish the educated Filipinos of
today are (1) power to do (2) knowledge of the past and
current events and (3) possession of the elements of conduct
that arae the accomplishment of culture and morality.
The function of our school is neither to fit the individual for
the past which is dead and gone, nor to
prepare him
for a remote future
which is problematic, rather it is
to
train the individual so that he will
be a
member of the world as it is.

Dr. Lourdes Quisumbings Educational

Philosophies
Believes
that
education
must
strengthen the dignity of the learner
as a human person. As such, the
various
dimensions
of
mans
personhood has to be fully developed
by the school system through an
effective and systematized values
education

Venancio Trinidads Educational

Philosophies
Education should aim to develop
men and women who are as deeply
concerned in the development and
uplift
of
our
communities,
particularly in the rural areas, as in
the promotion of their own personal
or individual well-being.

Manuel L. Quezons Educational

Philosophies
Show me people composed of vigorous, sturdy individuals,
of men and women healthy in mind and body, courteous,
industrious, self reliant , purposeful in thought as well in
action, imbued with sound patriotism and profound sense of
righteousness, with high social ideals and strong moral
fiber and I will show you a great nation, a nation that will
not submerged, a nation that will emerge victorious from
the
trials and bitter strife of a distracted world, a nation
that will live
forever, sharing the common task
of advancing the welfare and
promoting the happiness of
mankind

Filipino Values
And
Human
Development

The Filipino value system arises from our culture or way

of life, our distinctive way of becoming human in this
particular place and time. We speak of Filipino values in a
fourfold sense.

First, although mankind shares universal human values, it is

obvious that certain values take on for us a distinctively
Filipino flavor.
Secondly, when we speak of Filipino values, we do not mean
that elements of these Filipino values are absent in the value
systems of other peoples and cultures.
Thirdly, universal human values in a Filipino context
(historical, cultural, socio-economic, political, moral and
religious) take on a distinctive set of Filipino meanings and
motivations.
Fourthly, we can speak of Filipino
values in the sense that the
historical consciousness of values
has evolved among our people.

A philosophy of education for Filipinos

must also consider the Filipino behavioral
context. Our negative traits must be and
taken in tow, and efforts must be expended to
transform the Filipino from selfish, indolent,
grasping, uncaring man into the independent,
hard-working concerned man..

Some Filipino Values

Ningas kugon
Puede na or okay lang
Akala ko respose
Bahala na
Amorpropio
Maana habit
Utang na loob
Hiya
Pakikisama
Strong family ties

A philosophy of education for

Filipinos
must
develop
a
curriculum that can help make
the Filipino a truly humane
and dependable person.

Some problems confronting us are:

How can we transform the Filipino from the kanyakanya or me-first mentality into the think-other
opposite?
How can we motivate the Filipino to change his
attitude of puede na into thinking in terms of
excellence?
How can we foster the investigative spirit or inquiring
mind into the Filipino to eliminate the akala ko
mentality?
How can we move the Filipino from his see-nothing,
hear nothing, say nothing stance into asserting his
right both as a citizen and a human being..

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