Early 15th Century

Informal Education

ObservationImitationPractice

Behavior

Skills

Communication

Behavior in this aspects it engage in the oral traditions

of implying values to the children.

Skills involves the practical and hands-on activities that developed and enhanced the physical function the children during this period.

Communication on this aspects implies the use of traditional way of writing and reading so called Baybayin.

Baybayin consist of 21 letters, 5 vowels, and 17 consonant.

Woods, stones, and leaves.

Religion-oriented and controlled by Roman Catholic Church.

Spanish friars and missionaries educated the natives through religion with the aim of converting indigenous populations to the Catholic faith.

Friars learned the local languages.

The Tagalog Doctrina Christiana (1593)

In 1610, the first Filipino author Tomas Pinpinpublished a book in Baybayin entitled Librongpagaaralan nang mga Tagalog ng uicang Castila(Book for Tagalogs to Study the CastillianLanguage).

The San Carlos University was founded in Cebu in 1595. It was initially called the Colegio de San Ildefonso. On April 28, 1611, the University of Santo Tomas was founded in Manila.

(Library of the University of Santo Tomas)

In 1863, Spain promulgated the Education Decree.

The Education Decree of 1863

1. The establishment of at least two free primary schools, one for boys and another for girls, in each town under the control of the municipal government

2. The creation of a normal school to train men as teachers, supervised by the Jesuits.

Ilustrados (wealthy locals)

Latin was taught to the students

instead of Spanish.

Arriving of Different Religious Orders

The Augustinians opened a school immediately upon arriving in Cebú in 1565.

The Franciscans arrived in 1577, and they, too, immediately taught the people how to read and write, besides imparting to them important industrial and agricultural techniques.

The Jesuits who arrived in 1581 also concentrated on teaching the young. When the Dominicans arrived in 1587, they did the same thing in their first mission in Bataan.

The Dominicans also made a name as they established one of the best universities in the Philippines, the University of Santo Tomas, that was opened in 1611.

In 1630, Dominicans established another university, the "San Juan de Letran" for the orphaned boys.

Colegio de Santa Potenciana was the first school and college for girls that opened in the Philippines, in 1589. It was followed by another school for women, Colegiode Santa Isabel, that opened in 1632.

Several religious congregations also established schools for orphaned girls who could not educate themselves.

In entirety, education during the Spanish regime was privileged only to Spanish students. The supposed Philippine education was only a means to remain in the Philippines as colonizers. For this reason, the Filipinos became followers to the Spaniards in their own country. Even auspicious Filipinos became cronies, to the extent that even their lifestyles were patterned from the Spaniards.

http://education.stateuniversity.com/pages/1197/Philippines-HISTORY-BACKGROUND.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_in_the_Philippines_during_Spanish_rule