PRE-HISPANIC EDUCATION

SYSTEM IN THEPHILIPPINES
• The education of Pre-Hispanic Filipinos was fit for the
needs of their times.

• There was no formal schooling.

• Parents trained their children informally.
Mothers
educated
their HOUSEKEEPING BASKET MAKING

female
children in:

WEAVING Other Agricultural Activity

Fathers
educated
their male HUNTING CARPENTRY

children in:
MINING

AGRICULTURE SHIPBUILDING
Skills taught would vary on
their industries and locations.
During this period, education was still decentralized
• Children are provided more vocational trainings but lesser
academics by their parents or tribal tutors
• They used unique writing known as alibata.

BAYBA Means “to spell” in tagalog

Y Also known as alibata, that was used

before by the Filipinos.
The Pre-Hispanic system of education
underwent major changes during the
Spanish Colonization
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