Educational system

It took 3 and a half century before the colonial government set up a

school system. The colonials initiated the

establishment of schools – they introduced the parochial school

concept practiced in Europe during the dark ages.

Dark Ages

Dark Age school

Friars teaches the sacristans and other lay people to become the teacher

1591

• Governor Dasmarinas ordered part of the tribute (taxes) from encomiendas be used to maintain schools.

• The friars disregarded the laws mandating them to use Spanish; they rather taught the children in the native dialect.

Portrait of Gov. Dasmarinas

• The school in the doctrinas cannot be regarded as a school system in the modern sense. They were simply school of primary letter operated solely in aid of religious instruction. They were not graded schools. There was no concept of lower or higher school in the doctrina. The friar’s school was the only school, the highest school. Moreover, because the laws and ordinaces were silent in operational matters, the administration or conduct of the individual schools were governed only by the whims of the friars and by the rulers of their respective corporations.

Parochial Schools

Formal Schools

Beaterio colegios

Colegio de santa rosa

Schools

• Artillery School (1754)• Naval Academy (1812)• Marine School (1820)• School of Commercial accounting (1839)• School of Commerce (1840)• Telegraphy (1842)• School of Fine Arts (1849)

DictionariesFrancisco Blancas de San Jose OP• Arte y Regla de la lengua

Tagala.• Konown as the

Demosthenes of Tagalog language.

• Opened a printing press in Abucay with Tomas Pinpin in 1610.

Francisco Blancas de San Jose OP

Dictionaries

• Grammar Tagalog dictionary by Juan Quinones 1851

• First Cebu-Visayan grammar in Arte del idoma bisaya by Cristobal Ximenez S.J. early 1600.

• In 1711 Vocabulario de la Lengua Bisaya by Matheo Sanchez S.J.