Formal education experienced total disruption not only because of fighting but also because educational facilities were destroyed.
They introduced many changes in the curriculum by including Nippongo and abolishing English as a medium of instruction and as a subject.
All textbooks were censored and revised.
Japanese educational policies were embodied in the Military Order No. 2.
Filipinos has not much enthusiasm in returning to school first because the Filipinos as a whole were suspicious of the Japanese intention and second, children focused on helping their parents tide over the difficult times. Even though the Japanese allowed to continue using English as the medium of instruction in teaching, Niponggo was later injected to be studied in schools including elementary schools.
Japanese culture and language were included in the Civil Service exams
This abrupt transition of learning from English to Niponggo caused damage in the sense of national consciousness because the Filipinos don’t have their own knowledge. They are learning another countries’ language while destroying the main variations of their country’s languages. Instead of learning their own language, Filipinos were forced to learn the others’ that causes them to forget their own.
Realization of New Order and promote friendly relations between Japan and the Philippines to the farthest extent
Spanish reign for 300 years, Americans for 50 years, Japanese for about four years
It is thus not surprising that despite the measure they had instituted, the Japanese failed to succeed in transforming the values and attitudes of the people inline with their vision of the NEW ORDER.
A contributory factor was widely reported brutalities that ushered in the Japanese occupation that the Filipinos did not experience with the same degree during the American period
Filipino educational leaders tried to develop a curriculum based on the characteristics and needs of the Filipino children and on the needs, problems and resources of the community. However, their effort remained in the ideational stage.
Cecilio Putong later became the DEPED Secretary, Dr Vitaliano Bernardino, former Philippine Undersecretary of Education