function and importance

• Education

  The social institution through which society provides its members with important knowledge, including basic facts, job skills, and cultural norms and values
• Education

  The acquisition of knowledge, habits, skills, and abilities through instruction and training or through self-activity
• Every person has the right to enjoy and access quality education without discrimination and exclusion
• 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
• Before the Philippines attained independence in 1946, the country's education system was patterned after the educational systems of Spain and the United States
• Types of education

  • Formal education
  • Non-formal education
  • Informal education
• Formal education

  The standardized method of hierarchically structured and progressive schooling that corresponds to the general notion of elementary and secondary and tertiary level of education
• Formal education - primary or elementary level

  Compulsory to the students to ensure that all children have access to basic education
• Formal education levels

  • K-12 (DEPED)
  • Tertiary (CHED)
• Non-formal education

  An educational activity carried outside the structure of a formal education
• Non-formal education examples

  • Out of school youth
  • ALS
  • TESDA
• Informal education

  A lifelong process whereby every individual acquires from daily experiences, attitudes, values, facts, skills, and knowledge from resources in his or her higher environment
• Special education

  The education of persons who are physically, mentally, emotionally, socially, or culturally different from so-called "normal" individuals, such that they require modification of school practices to develop their potential
• Role of education and schools in our society

  • Socialization
  • Transmission of culture
  • Social integration
  • Social placement
• Functions of education in society

  • Intellectual
  • Political
  • Social
  • Economic
  • Cultural
• Education is also a form of socialization according to sociologists
• The American colonization in the Philippines lasted for forty-eight years and had brought a big influence in our education system today
• The education during the Spanish time was not open for all indios
• Formal education follows a definite system of learning process
• Tertiary education is regulated by the Commission on Higher Education, not the Department of Education
• Elementary education is a formal type of education
• Elementary education in the country is compulsory thus all Filipino children are enrolled in elementary school
• SPED school aims to develop the potentials of the child with special needs
• High school has a total of four years under the new school curriculum
• Education does not reflect a classless society