quiz 4

• Education is the social institution through which society provides its members with important knowledge, including basic facts, job skills, and cultural norms and values.
• Education is the acquisition of knowledge, habits, skills, and abilities through instruction and training or through self-activity.
• Education in the Philippines is managed and regulated by the Department of Education, commonly referred to as the DepEd.
• The DepEd controls the Philippine educational system, including the creation and implementation of the curriculum and the utilization of funds allotted by the national government.
• The DepEd manages the construction of schools, acquisition of books and other school materials, and the recruitment of teachers and staff.
• Before the Philippines attained independence in 1946, the country’s education system was patterned after the educational systems of Spain and the United States.
• The United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) declare that education is a fundamental human right and essential for the exercise of all other human rights.
• Education promotes individual freedom and empowerment and yields important development benefits.
• Millions of children and adults remain deprived of educational opportunities, many as a result of poverty.
• The Philippines, with exemption to other parts of the country, were under Spanish rule for more than three hundred years while the Americans stayed for 48 years.
• During the Spanish time, the function of education was inculcated moral and religious values.
• Religion was the core curriculum, and the schools were used to spread Christianity.
• The educated class consisted mostly of ilustrados.
• During Spain's rule of the Philippines, the ilustrados belonged to the European-educated middle-class Filipinos.
• Formal education refers to the hierarchically structured, chronologically graded educational system from primary school to the university, including programs and institutions for full time technical and vocational training.
• Formal education corresponds to the following levels in basic education: Elementary Education, Secondary Education, and Tertiary Education.
• Non-formal education refers to any organized educational activity outside the established formal system to provide selected types of learning to a segment of the population.
• The purpose of the Gabaldon Building was to provide access to proper education in the most remote areas of the country.
• At the end of each level in formal education, the learners must obtain certification in order to enter or advance to the next level.
• In response to the teacher shortage resulting from the creation of a centralized public education system, volunteer American soldiers became the first teachers of the Filipinos.
• Non-formal education emerged in response to the world crisis in education identified by Philip H. Coombs in 1967, who argued that the formal education system have failed to address the changing dynamics of the environment and the societies.
• The Gabaldon Building symbolized the first foundation of the Philippine public school system.
• Part of their mission was to build classrooms in every place where they were assigned.
• Non-formal education enables a student to learn skills and knowledge through structured learning experiences.
• They began to arrive in August 1901 aboard U.S. Army Transport (ASAT) ships named Sheridan and Thomas and came to be called Thomasites.
• A student in non-formal education learns his/her values, principles, and beliefs and undergoes lifelong learning.
• Many of the names we know and remember today in our country belonged to this class: Juan Luna, Graciana Lopez Jaena, Marcelo H. Del Pilar, Felix Resureccion Hidalgo, Antonio Luna, and Mariano Ponce.
• When the Americans came, education was focused on the development of new social patterns that would prepare the nation for a self-governing democracy.
• The medium of instruction was English.
• Informal education offers alternative learning opportunities for the out of school youth and adults, specifically those who are 15 years old and above and unable to avail themselves of the educational services and programs of formal education.
• Special education provides distinct services, curricula, and instructional materials geared to pupils or students who are significantly higher or lower than the average or norm.
• Only a record of high school educational and an enrolment fee are required for admission to vocational colleges.
• Informal education is a lifelong process whereby every individual acquires from daily experiences, attitudes, values, facts, skills, and knowledge or motor skill from resources in his or her higher environment.
• Herbert Spencer, a British sociologist, defines functions as important to be performed as they make the society whole.
• On completion of the vocational education programs, students may take centrally-administered examinations to obtain their diploma or certificate.
• Vocational colleges do not usually require an entrance examination for admission.
• The primary objective of informal education is to provide literacy programs to eradicate illiteracy.
• Herbert Spencer lays down the functions of education as Productive Citizenry and Self-actualization.
• SPED aims to develop the maximum potential of the child with the special needs to enable him/her to become self-reliant and take advantage of the opportunities for a full and happy life.
• Vocational Education is offered by accredited private institutions and the duration of the programs varies from a few weeks to two years.