INTRODUCTION

Through out the years, education has been playing an essential role in the society.

According to Merriam Dictionary, education is the knowledge, skill and understanding that you

get from attending a school, college or university. This is the formal education and what everyone

knows in the modern days. Way back in ancient times, there were not yet facilities, tools,

equipment and assigned personnel to teach kids. But then, our ancestors had their own way to

learn. According in some research, they picked-up on what behavior they have seen. They were

playing-rehearsing conversations and interactions. That way, they learned about how they should

act and what different situations feel like. At one level, this learning may seem incidental but is

not accidental. At some point, specialist educators appeared in different communities. In tribes,

this may have been associated with the role of elders. Some centuries later, in Athenian society,

there were schools (perhaps based on earlier Babylonian models) and there were both teachers and

pedagogues - family attendants often slave who share some qualities with specialist informal

educators. As time goes by, additional concepts and activities put on the way until 17th century

came. We saw the further development of academies, charity schools and libraries with a growing

interest in science and mutual improvement societies. These emerged as places for exploration and

discussion.

Later on, there's this term "globalization" that suddenly appeared in the picture and

currently dominating the modern days of living especially when it comes to education. Anthony

Giddens, a social expert, defined globalization as the intensification of worldwide social relations

which link distant localities in such a way that local happenings are shaped by events occurring

many miles away and vice versa. Modern globalization has been a recognized force around the

world for almost five decades. Academic journals, newspapers, television specials and political
discourse are dominated by globalization events, and their impact seems to be ubiquitous. This is

also one of the reasons why Philippines' education system changed from basic curriculum to K-12

curriculum. Leonid Grinin and Andrey Korotayev propose a history of globalization that draws on

a special methodology and a world-system approach based on the development of spatial links

over seven periods of time starting with the Agrarian Revolution (four before and three after the

great geographic discoveries). The authors note that globalization began at least as early as 4th

thousand BCE. Anyway, no matter when it was started, the big question is, How has globalization

brought improvement in educational aspect of Filipino learners? Is this really an ingredient in

having high-quality education which everyone believes that the latter is the key for an individual

to succeed and for a country to progress?

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Bordo, M., Taylor A., & Williamson, J. (January 2003). Globalization in Historical Perspective.

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International Social Science. (September 2000). Blackwell. Vol. 165. Publishers/UNESCO,

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Merriam-Webster's collegiate dictionary. (1993). Springfield, MA: Merriam-Webster.

Smith M. (1997). A brief history of informal education. Memset Dedicated Servers.

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