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This document discusses the nature and purpose of education in the Philippines. It states that education aims to develop productive and patriotic citizens by providing skills, knowledge, and values. Education is viewed as a way to teach democratic values and prepare individuals to participate in society. However, exclusive approaches in schooling can hamper democratic practices. The document also discusses how education is linked to democracy according to philosophers like Dewey and Shaw, with democratic education seeking to instill democratic values and empower citizens to make independent judgments. The overall aim of education in a democracy is to develop citizens who can understand social problems objectively and form their own views, while also fostering values like social justice, resilience, and rational thinking.

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This document discusses the nature and purpose of education in the Philippines. It states that education aims to develop productive and patriotic citizens by providing skills, knowledge, and values. Education is viewed as a way to teach democratic values and prepare individuals to participate in society. However, exclusive approaches in schooling can hamper democratic practices. The document also discusses how education is linked to democracy according to philosophers like Dewey and Shaw, with democratic education seeking to instill democratic values and empower citizens to make independent judgments. The overall aim of education in a democracy is to develop citizens who can understand social problems objectively and form their own views, while also fostering values like social justice, resilience, and rational thinking.

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On the Nature and Purpose of Philippine Education


(Article Review)

Education is one of the crucial parts of one’s life. It’s anything but an individual ready to
arrive at his value as a current being. It makes great possibilities for man to find more himself
and live with many differed changes that are going around him. With education, man discovers
satisfaction in noting the numerous inquiries of the world. Education is life.

The goal of basic education is to provide the school age population and young adults with
skills, knowledge, and values to become productive and patriotic citizens. In our country, the
educational system aims to provide a broad general education that will assist each individual in
society to attain potential as a human, and enhance the range and quality of the individual and the
group.

The fact that Education is viewed as an optimal device for acknowledging majority rule
standards since it plans individuals to be basic residents who will have a critical impact in the
public advancement. In a majority rule society, nonetheless, there are inconsistencies that are
available at the time. The predominance of exclusive approaches in schooling gives off an
impression of being hampering majority rule strategies and practices.

By law, education is compulsory for thirteen years and is grouped into three levels:
elementary school, junior high school, and senior high school. The issue of vote-based schooling
is especially appropriate as of now. The starting points of the Philippine government in both
progressivism and democratic system. Liberalism is often defined as a political doctrine that
aims to guarantee separation of powers, individual liberty, and the rule of the law. Democracy is
more frequently associated with equality and popular sovereignty. For a long time, “democratic
education” has functioned as a nodal point (Laclau, 2007) within educational theory and
research, serving as a place of encounter for different educational discourses of democracy and
education.

Furthermore, democratic education is an educational ideal in which democracy is both an


objective and a strategy for instruction. It brings democratic values to education and can include
self-assurance inside the community of equivalents, as well as such qualities as equity, respect,
and trust.

The links between democracy and education are implicit in most historical and
philosophical accounts of democracy. According to Barber (1994), The theoretical founders of
liberal democracy conceived education to be instrumental for the ideal society in which citizens
would develop their own potential. This origination had a solid impact in the plan of overall
education systems, especially in the universalization and the motivations behind conventional
schooling (Biesta, 2007).

John Dewey, the votary of democratic education illuminates briefly that, “The devotion
of democracy to education is a familiar fact. A government resting upon popular suffrage cannot
be successful unless those who govern and obey their governors are educated.” After, Dewey
introduced the discussion on “Democarcy and Education”, the battle for democratic education
has been integral to key methodologies and ways of thinking of education such as child-centered
and basic teaching methods.

Further, Bernard Shaw mentions the value of education in a democracy. “Democracy


implies election of the corrupt few by the ignorant many. Therefore, education is the major
means to enrich the strengths and overcome the weaknesses of the people. It is also a means for
the widespread diffusion of democratic values.”

In the context and aim of education in a democracy, is to produce democratic citizens


who can not only understand objectively the excess of social, political, economic and cultural
problems but also form their own independent judgement on these complicated problems. It
should instill in them the soul of resilience and light the courage of convictions. Also, it should
target making in them an enthusiasm for social equity and social help. As well as, it should equip
in them the force of judgment, logical reasoning and gauging the right and the unacceptable.
Therefore, education totally aims at enabling the learners to be social minded humans
capable of managing their own affairs and living with others affectively. And at the same time,
enables them to realize their hidden potentialities fully to contribute to the success of democracy.

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