EVOLUTION OF PHILIPPINE EDUCATION

The Philippine Education is evolving, adapting new methods and set of curriculum from the foreign land. We are trying to be globally competitive by creating and formulating a well-planned curriculum for basic education. This is to respond the challenge of the changing society by preparing the young minds to become well-equipped with the necessary skills for his basic foundation. So, the question remains, how we able to furnish this curriculum thinking that this is proper and appropriate to every learner.

During the primitive era, there is no concrete and formal mode of education. Children where only trained on the household chores for girls while hunting and agriculture for boys. With this, we get the idea that children needs to learn this skills so TLE or Technology and Livelihood Education is adopted in order for the children to learn those kind of things that will help him to engage task involving technical skills. Since, there is an evolution or development of the society, the birth of philosophy from different places paved the way of philosophical speculations that guides man to understand better the world and him. There is then an introduction of moral values and virtues that man should learn and manifest for him to find the meaning of his life and attain happiness. We have now Values Education or Edukasyon sa Pagkatao, which molded the students to be morally adept that is to conform the moral standards of the society and behave like a rational human being to maintain harmony and avoid disorientation or chaotic environment. Further, education became more advanced that the Greeks focused on ideals and practice primarily in physical training emphasized by Spartans. Man should develop his physical strength, courage and agility. And now, we called it MAPEH or Music, Arts, and Physical Education and Health to train students in the various aspect of physical ability like sports, gymnastics, arts as well as music and health. Moreover, the academic subjects such as English, Math and Science was anchored on the ideals of the Greek philosophers which later improvised by the modern philosophers to devised a more precise and specific concept of the matter to explain a certain phenomenon. Conversely, English was much associated in literature which was influenced by the Athenians as well as the Romans in terms of oration and public speaking. Currently, this literature is a part of English subject.