Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Rhetoric
Catalyst: Education of sons of mestizos Poetry
- in Manila History
- in Europe (Spain, Germany) Character Education
Music
Significance: Emergence of Ilustrado Class (wealthy c. Philosophy
and educated mestizos) Ontology
Cosmology
NATIVE BOYS Ethics
outside town Apologetics
bahay gawa sa kubo/ bamboo Natural Law
d. Physics
School: Parish Convent (no specific school) Mechanics
Teacher: Friar (Parish Priest) Hydraulics
Curriculum: e. Mathematics
a. Christian Doctrine Algebra
b. Church Music Logarithm
c. Reading Geometry
d. Writing Trigonometry
e. Counting f. Science
Language: Native Dialect (dictionary friar learns Astronomy
Filipino) Geology
Significance: Geography
1. There was little/ no participation of government in Chemistry
education. Biology
2. Church took the role of government in education Mineralogy
3. Teachers were not trained to teach (no teachers) Optics
4. No set of number of years of study Language: Spanish
5. No specific levels of study Grading System:
6. Girls were not encouraged to study Sobre saliente (Excellent)
7. Spanish wasn’t used as the medium of instruction Notable (Very Good)
8. Focus of education: Christianization Bueno (Good)
9. Large number of Filipinos remained poor without Aprobado (Passed)
a profession (mangmang) Bachiller en Arts (5 years)
Significance:
SPANISH BOYS 1. Schools: located – Manila are owned and operated
School: Colegio by friar orders
Ex: Colegio de San Juan de Letran (Dominican) 2. Friars: principal educators
Colegio de San Jose (Jesuits) 3. No professional teachers
Teachers: Dominicans (friars) 4. Only sons of Spaniards availed higher education
Curriculum:
a. Grammar SPANISH GIRLS
Spanish School: Beaterio
Latin Ex: Beaterio Sta. Rosa, Beaterio Sta. Catalina
Greek Teacher: Nuns
French Curriculum:
English a. Christian Doctrine
b.Character Education
c. Music
d.Embroidery
e. Household Work
Significance:
1. Courses leading to a profession were not offered.
2. Aimed at making them obedient housewives and
good wives.
SPANISH MEN
School: Universidad
Ex: UST (only university -19th century)
Teacher: Friar
Courses Offered:
a. Theology
b. Law
c. Medicine
d. Pharmacy
Significance:
1. Courses for higher study were only available for
Spaniards.
2. Colonial education was limited by social
stratification.
Jose Rizal
sent by his parents to study: Ateneo Municipal,
Universidad de Santo Tomas