Philippine education system during american perood

• American Expeditionary Forces


  • Destroy Spanish Armada
  • Defeat the Spaniards
• Treaty of Paris


  Dec 10, 1898
• Treaty of Paris


  20m US dollars
• American Influences


  • English language (Medium of Instruction)
  • Formal Education (Level of education)
  • Tech-Voc Skills (Various skills)
  • Pillar of education (Information and responsibility)
• Pillars of education


  • Learning to Know (English only policy, Free education)
  • Learning to Do (Importance of Tech-Voc skills)
  • Learning to Live Together (Peoples part in decision making)
  • Learning to Be (Having good manners and right conduct)
• American occupied Manila, Reopened the schools


  1899
• American Soldiers were our first soldiers
• English only zone
• Mandatory to enter school
• Free Materials
• Act no. 74


  • Formal Education (4 years elementary, 4 years highschool, 4 years college)
  • Education is free and universal
  • Pensionados (Scholars)
• Thomasites


  Group of professionals who were assigned to teach English language
• Act no. 372


  Provincial Schools
• Famous schools


  • Philippine Normal University
  • University of the Philippines
• Newspapers during American Colonization

  • El Grito Del Pueblo (Pascual Poblete)
  • El Nueva Dia (Sergio Osmena)
  • El Renacimiento (Rafael Palma)
  • The Bounding Billow (First American newspaper)
  • The American Soldier (First American newspaper printed in the Philippines)
  • The Philippine Herald (First American weekly newspaper about the Philippines)
  • The Manila Times (Biggest newspaper in the Philippines)
  • The Manila Bulletin (Second oldest newspaper in the Philippines)
• A Child of Sorrow


  First English novel in the Philippines, Zoilo Galang
• Philippine Collegian


  Compilation of Philippine Literature
• The Philippine Collegian


  1991
• Noted essayist

  • carlos p romulo
  • jorge bacobo
  • vicente hilario
  • mairo mendez