Jannet O.

Maningas
BSE 4

How science and technology defined the various sector of the Philippines
Government during the different periods in history.

American
During the American Period there were three levels of education. The
“Elementary Level” consisted of four primary years and three immediate years.
The “ secondary level” consisted of four years and the third was the college.
American period introduce vaccination and the enforcement of stipulations of
personal hygiene. It can be viewed as different mechanisms of colonial
government. Immunization campaigns reach and register populations, but they
may also appear to obviate the need for behavioral reform. Hygiene education
implies the development of a disciplined, self-governing citizenry, although in the
colonial setting validation of such attainment is usually deferred.

Ramon Magsaysay’s presidency

sought to reform the state
through electoral politics. He
Ramon Magsaysay created the National Citizens' Movement for Free Elections
(NAMFREL), an election watchdog that organized teams to prevent frauds and
ensure fair vote counting. The Republic Act 997 increased the powers of the
executive office to improve the management of the state budget and
a five-year national economic development plat to generate 1.7 million jobs. He
had also created the Presidential Assistant for Community Development
(PACD) that delivered government
assistance to farmers backed by specialized presidential agencies which
improved farmers’ productivity and access to markets. Even with the gradual
efforts of Magsaysay to uplift the rural sector, he gained political backslashes
from the congress. The legislature weakened the Land reform act of 1955 with
amendments making it difficult for tenants to acquire landThe colonial period
evidently gave birth to the agrarian economic structure of the Philippines that
highlighted its rich natural resources and lack of a government lead by Filipinos.
The Pueblo system implied full employment in agriculture wherein the carabao
was thought to
pull the plow and the harrow. The Pueblo system cultivated a single occupational
class, that of farmers, wherein there was no unemployment under the native
economy.