NSTP

• Preamble


  An introductory and preliminary statement in a document that explains the document's purpose and underlying philosophy
• The preamble to the 1987 Constitution of the Philippines states that the Philippines and the Filipino people are the sovereign masters of the Philippine Islands
• Values


  Involve a subject or person who values and an object or value to be realized
• There is a difference between value and disvalue such as pleasure and pain, life and death, poverty and affluence, heroism and cowardice, truth and falsehood, right and wrong, holiness and sinfulness
• Filipino values


  • Arise from our culture or way of life, our distinctive way of becoming human in this particular place and time
  • Take on a distinctively Filipino flavor
  • Elements may not be absent in other cultures but are ranked, combined, or emphasized differently
  • Take on a distinctive set of Filipino meanings and motivations
  • Are not discrete items but are clustered around core values
• Dominant Filipino values


  • Spirituality
  • Family centeredness
• Values in the sense of historical consciousness had evolved among the Filipino people, leading to the concept of justice evolving from inequality to equality and to human dignity
• Pagkamaka-Diyos (Love for God)


  Religiousness, deeply rooted submission to a divine Creator and believing in His authority over all creations, putting oneself in the hands of the Divine Authority which is an expression of faith in and unconditional love for God
• Pagkamaka-Tao (Love for Fellowmen)


  Love is patient, never fails, is eternal, strengthens the foundation of the family and other social groupings, provides a deeper meaning to the purpose of human existence
• Pagkamaka-Bayan (Love for Country)


  People have trust and confidence in their governments and actively support their policies and programs, governments reciprocate with honest, sound, and dynamic governance
• Pagkamaka-Kalikasan (Love for the Environment)


  Protecting natural resources and ecosystem, participating in sustainable management of natural resources
• Roots of the Filipino character

  • Home environment
  • Social environment
  • Culture and language
  • History
  • Educational system
  • Religion
  • Economic environment
  • Political environment
  • Mass media
  • Leadership and role models
• Home environment


  • Child-bearing practices, family relations, and family attitudes and orientation
  • Child-bearing characterized by high nurturance, low independence training, and low discipline
  • Indulgent atmosphere leads to lack of discipline
  • Attempts to maintain discipline through "no's", "don'ts", and subtle comparisons among siblings
  • Encourages getting along with siblings and relatives, learning pakikipagkapwa-tao
  • Authoritarian setting leads to respect for age and authority, but also passivity and dependence on authority
  • Teaches to value and give primary importance to family
• Social environment


  • Characterized by feudal structure with great gaps between rich minority and poor majority
  • Develops dependence and passivity
  • Sensitivity about hurting established relationships controls behavior, restrains criticism, pressures to favor family and friends
  • Struggle for survival and dependence on relationships make in-group oriented
• Culture and language


  • Rewards warmth, person orientation, devotion to family, sense of joy and humor
  • Openness to outside world easily incorporates foreign elements without basic consciousness of cultural core
  • Use of English as medium of instruction de-Filipinizes youth and teaches American culture as superior
  • Use of foreign language contributes to lack of self-confidence and inferiority complex, unreflectiveness and mental laziness
• Traits and behavioral patterns

  Develop because they make one more likable and enable life to proceed more easily
• Filipino culture


  • Characterized by an openness to the outside world which easily incorporates foreign elements without a basic consciousness of our cultural core
  • Related to our colonial mentality and to the use of English as the medium of instruction in schools
• The introduction of English as the medium of education de-Filipinized the youth and taught them to regard American culture as superior
• Use of English


  • Contributes to a lack of self-confidence on the part of the Filipino
  • Doing well means using a foreign language, which foreigners inevitably can handle better, leading to an inferiority complex
  • At a very early age, our self-esteem depends on the mastery of something foreign
• Thinking in native language, expressing in English

  Results in a lack of confidence, lack in power of expression, imprecision, and a stunted development of one's intellectual powers
• Colonialism developed a mindset in the Filipino which encouraged us to think of the colonial power as superior and more powerful
• As a second-class citizen beneath the Spanish and then the Americans, we developed a dependence on foreign powers that makes us believe we are not responsible for our country's fate
• The American influence is more ingrained in the Philippines because the Americans set up a public school system where we learned English and the American way of life
• Present-day media reinforce these colonial influences and the Filipino elite set the example by their Western ways
• Another vestige of our colonial past is our basic attitude toward the government, which we have learned to identify as foreign and apart from us
• We do not identify with government and are distrustful and uncooperative toward it
• Much time and energy is spent trying to outsmart the government, which we have learned from our colonial past to regard as an enemy
• The lack of suitable local textbooks and dependence on foreign textbooks, particularly in the higher school levels, force Filipino students as well as their teachers to use school materials that are irrelevant to the Philippine setting
• From this comes a mindset that things learned in school are not related to real life
• Philippine school system


  • Highly authoritarian, with the teacher as the central focus
  • Filipino student is taught to be dependent on the teacher, attempting to record verbatim what the teacher says and to give this back during examinations in its original form and with little processing
  • Teachers reward well-behaved and obedient students
  • Teachers tend to be uncomfortable with those who ask questions and express a different viewpoint
• The Filipino student learns passivity and conformity
• Religion


  • Root of the Filipinos' optimism and capacity to accept life's hardships
  • Also instills in us attitudes of resignation and a preoccupation with the afterlife and superstitions
• Poverty and hard life

  • Drives us to take risks, impel us to work very hard, and develop in us the ability to survive
  • Also becomes an excuse for graft and corruption, particularly among the lower rungs of the bureaucracy
  • Unless things get too difficult, passivity sets in
• Philippine political environment


  • Characterized by a centralization of power
  • Political power or authority is concentrated in the hands of the elite and the participation of most Filipinos often is limited to voting in elections
  • Basic services from the government are concentrated in Manila and its outlying towns and provinces, with a great majority of Filipinos not reached by such basic services as water, electricity, roads, and health services
  • Government structures and systems-e.g. justice and education-are often ineffective or inefficient
• Since the government often is not there to offer basic services, we depend on our family, kin, and neighbors for our everyday needs
• The absence of government enhances our extreme family and even community-centeredness
• We find it difficult to identify with a nation-family, since the government is not there to symbolize or represent the state
• The fact that political power is still very much concentrated in the hands of a few may lead to passivity
• The inefficiency of government structures and systems also leads to a lack of integrity and accountability in our public servants
• Mass media


  • Reinforce our colonial mentality
  • Advertisements using Caucasian models and emphasizing a product's similarity with imported brands are part of our daily lives
  • Tendency to produce escapist movies, soap operas, comics, etc., feed the Filipinos' passivity
  • Propensity to use flashy sets, designer clothes, superstars, and other bongga features reinforce porma