2. EDUCATION
• Education (also called learning, teaching or
schooling) in the general sense is any act or
experience that has a formative effect on the
mind, character, or physical ability of an
individual.
• In its technical sense, education is the process by
which society deliberately transmits its
accumulated knowledge, skills, and values from
one generation to another.
4. • The education system of the Philippines has
been highly influenced by the country’s
colonial history. That history has included
periods of
Spanish, American and Japanese rule and
occupation.
• The most important and lasting contributions
came during America’s occupation of the
country, which began in 1898. It was during
that period that English was introduced as the
primary language of instruction and a system
of public education was first established.
5. Structure
• Education in the Philippines is offered
through formal and non-formal
systems. Formal education typically spans
14 years and is structured in a 6+4+4
system: 6 years of primary school
education, 4 years of secondary school
education, and 4 years of higher education,
leading to a bachelor’s degree. This is one
of the shortest terms of formal education
in the world.
6. Primary Education
• Primary school education in the Philippines
spans 6 years in duration and is compulsory
for all students. This level of education is
divided into a four-year primary cycle and
a two-year intermediate cycle. In the
country’s public schools, Filipino children
generally begin school at age 6 or 7;
however, private schools typically start a
year earlier and operate a seven-year
curriculum rather than a six-year
curriculum.
7. • Primary Cycle. Four years—Grades
1-4, age 6-11
• Intermediate Cycle—Grades 5 and 6,
age 11-13
• There are a number of core subjects
that are taught, with varying degrees
of difficulty, in all six grades of
primary school.
8. Secondary Education
• Although secondary education is not
compulsory in the Philippines, it is widely
attended, particularly in the more urban
areas of the country. At this level, private
schools enroll a much higher percentage of
students than at the elementary level.
According to statistics from the
Department of Education, roughly 45
percent of the country’s high schools are
private, enrolling about 21 percent of all
secondary school students
11. • Universal access to education is
the ability of all people to have
equal opportunity in education,
regardless of their social
class, gender, ethnicity background
or physical and mental disabilities.
14. • Quality education enables people to
develop all of their attributes and
skills to achieve their potential as
human beings and members of
society.
15. •Quality education is a human right and
a public good.
•Governments and other public
authorities should ensure that a quality
education service is available freely to
all citizens from early childhood into
adulthood.
16. •Quality education provides the foundation
for equity in society.
•Quality education is one of the most basic
public services. It not only enlightens but
also empowers citizens and enables them to
contribute to the maximum extent possible
to the social and economic development of
their communities.
17. The value of education is not the
learning of many acts but the
learning of the mind to think.
-Albert Einstein
