part 3

• Science and technology in the Philippines advanced rapidly during the American regime
• education plays a major role in the advancement of science and technology
• American Regime

  All Filipino children were given right to education despite economic and social status.
• Department of Public Instruction that aimed to provide free primary education to Filipinos but utilized English as the primary mode of instruction.
• Department of Public Instruction that aimed to provide free primary education to Filipinos but utilized English as the primary mode of instruction.
• Philippine Normal School (PNS) was established by the Americans and became the training ground for Filipino teachers.
• A normal school is one that is created to train high school graduates to be excellent teachers.
• PNS

  Its purpose is to establish teaching standards or norms, hence the name.
• Philippine Normal University (PNU), known to produce excellent educators in different fields of studies.
• Americans established the University of the Philippines
• Americans who established the University of the Philippines
• U.P. was located at Taft Avenue, Manila. During the American occupation, it was the only publicly-supported higher education institution. And with the rise of the demand for professional education, private schooling became the alternative solution
• U.P. was located at Taft Avenue, Manila. During the American occupation, it was the only publicly-supported higher education institution. And with the rise of the demand for professional education, private schooling became the alternative solution
• Private School Act (Act No. 2076) was established, recognizing the increasing number of private schools as educational and not commercial institutions.
• Office of Private Education was established to look into matters of improvement of private schools’ educational machinery.
• Likewise, for promotion of scientific research in the country, the Americans established the NRCP or the National Research Council of the Philippine Islands in 1933.
• Likewise, for promotion of scientific research in the country, the Americans established the NRCP or the National Research Council of the Philippine Islands in 1933.
• NRCP clustered policies for scientific research development in the country into four:

  • Social Sciences, Humanities, Education, International Policies and Governance
  • Physics, Engineering and Industrial Research, Earth and Space Sciences, and Mathematics
  • Medical, Chemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences
  • Biological Sciences, Agriculture, and Forestry
• Education was one of the main tools the Americans primarily utilized to establish the development of science and technology in the Philippines.
• The country remained an exporter to U.S. of various agricultural crops and raw materials and an importer of U.S. manufactured products.
• American Regime

  1. education
  2. economy
• The country remained an exporter to U.S. of various agricultural crops and raw materials and an importer of U.S. manufactured products