MISTALK ON THE PRESENT STATE OF THE PHILIPPINE EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM
Daloy:
I. Ang Edukasyon at Lipunan
II. ‘Just Call Me John’ ang Pagkawala
ng Identidad ni Juan dela Cruz
III. Anong Klaseng Edukasyon ba
Meyron Tayo?
IV. Tungo sa Isang Mapagpalayang
Edukasyon
EDUKASYON at LIPUNAN
EDUKASYON – sa pamamagitan nito,
naisasalin/naituturo sa isang indibidwal
na bahagi ng isang tiyak na lipunan ang
kaalaman at kakayahan kinakailangan
upang magpatuloy ang kasalukuyang
isang tiyak na pang-ekonomiyang
kaayusan.
Sa Primitibo Komunal
Kung saan hindi pa nahahati sa uri ang mga
tao, ang edukasyon ay nagsisilbi sa
ikauunlad ng buong komunidad.
Ang kaalaman ay ginagamit upang punuan
ang materyal at ispiritwal na
pangangailangan ng tao.
Sa Lipunang Makauri
Kung saan nahahati ang tao batay
sa (mayron o walang)
panlipunang yaman o ‘social
wealth’, ang edukasyon ay
nagsisilbi lamang sa papaliit na
seksyong nakaka-angat sa
lipunan.
Just Call Me John:
Ang Pagkawala ng Identidad ni Juan dela Cruz
“Education always serves a political
dream, an establish political order, a
particular set of class interest.”
It is an ideological apparatus wielded to
remold the minds of future generations in
the image most to the dominant classes in
given society.
- Paulo Freire
(author of Pedagogy of the Oppressed)
• ROYAL DECREE (1863)
“ liberating the Indio from the Devil”
• Act 477 (1900)
“ benevolent assimilation to pacify the struggle
and coopt the ilustrado class“
• Pagdating ng USS Thomas (1901)
‘the Second Army of US Occupation”
SAPAGKAT
“Molding men’s minds is the best means of conquest”
At para kay Gen. MacArthur, ang pagpondo sa PUBLIC SCHOOL
SYSTEM sa Pilipinas ay tuwirang kakabit ng kanilang
estratehiyang MILITAR para mabilis na mapahupa ang
kagustuhang lumaya mula sa bagong mananakop nito.
Kasabay ng pagbubukas ng mga public schools ay
ang tinatawag na mga pensionado– mga piling
Pilipino na pinag-aaral ng libre sa US.
• Amerikano ang namuno sa Department of
Public Instruction ( kahalintulad ng
DepEd) hangganhg pagkatapos ng
Commonwealth noong 1935.
– US Treaty of General Relations (1948)
– PD 6-A ( Education Act of 1982 )
Ayon kay Robert McNamara dating
WB President
• ELEMENTARY – laboratoryo para sa trainable at
•
•
mobile manpower
SECONDARY – reservoir of skilled and semiskilled workers
Tertiary ( 5 Year Development Plan 1978 to
1982) pagbabago ng tunguhin ng enrollment
patungo sa pagpapadami ng mga technical,
agricultural, professional and industrial related
courses.
Anong Klaseng Edukasyon
mayron tayo>>>
• Kolonyal
• Komersyalisado
• Elitista
• Represibo
Colonial
MANIFESTATIONS OF THE COLONIAL SYSTEM
OF PHILIPPINE EDUCATION
1. Labor-Export Policy
2. Ballooning Number of Care-Giver
Training Programs and Call Center Services.
3. Consciousness Formation
According to a study of the US and WB funded Social Science
Textbook for Grade 1-6 (1982) Prof. Leticia Constantino reveals
that:
1. Project the US and WB designed national development program as
the program for the Filipino people;
2. Foster bland cultural nationalism but not political and economic
nationalism;
3. Reinforce colonial outlook, justify colonialism, and portray the
Americans as accidental colonizers;
4. Discuss the Philippine Revolution very briefly and summarily
dismiss the revolutionaries as bandits and brigands thereby
ignoring the atrocities committed by the colonizers and
5. Teach that without foreign investments and foreign loans the
country cannot advance thereby perpetuating dependency and
mendicancy.
Private Firms Dominated
Higher Education Sector
1,347
111
Private
Higher
Educational
Institution
(PHEI)
State Universities and Colleges (SUC’s)
(952 of this, were established for stock-operations)
Source: Commission on Higher Educations (CHED)
Commercialized and Elitist
• Education Act of 1982 has given
justification for private capitalist
educator to charge higher
tuition fees.
Edcucation became a commodity for the moneyed and privileged few.
On the other hand...
State subsidy for education has
experienced yearly budget cut!
For the past years, 35% of the fund
needed by SCUs are generated from
the private sector.
Schools in Top 1,000 Corporations
SCHOOL
Rank
Profit
(in P’000)
% change
from 2001
Equity
(in P’000)
National Teachers College
166
297,042
5,214.8
51,508
Centro Escolar University
198
240,206
7.4
1,941,478
Mapua Institute of Technology
218
218,701
42.9
946,790
Far Eastern University
272
155,793
50.8
814,781
Feati University
364
103,820
152.9
408,472
University of the East
517
63,262
(0.4)
690,145
Manila Central University
785
30,735
8,231
111,315
Cebu Doctors College
845
26,734
68.1
352,516
Velez College
987
20,256
10.2
50,746
Source: Top Moneymakers, Graphic (December 2003 issue)
VIOLATED STUDENT RIGHTS INSIDE CAMPUSES
1. Free Movement.
2. Freedom of Speech and Expression.
3. Right to Organization.
4. Sexual Discrimination.
5. Violations Concerning Student Councils.
6. Violations Concerning Student Publications.
7. Violations Concerning Progressive and
Critical Groups and Individuals inside the campus.
8. Non-recognition of various student’s organization
9. Violations with military components.
Source: NUSP National Primer (2004)
MIS-
THUS, PHILIPPINE EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM MUST BE:
THE PRESENT STATE OF THE PHILIPPINE EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM IS AS FOLLOW:
Unite the Youth and
Serve
the People!
a challenge. . .
from Youth for
Nationalism and
Democracy (YND)
...the end. . .