Case Study

FLAWS OF THE PHILIPPINE EDUCATIONAL

SYSTEM

Name:

Lance Marcus Ignacio

Ciara May Precones

Section: X-Humility

Date: March 18, 2019

Teacher’s name:

Jennyfel Awa-ao
 Chapter I

Introduction

Today we are here to bring to your attention the deteriorating

educational system of the Philippines. Our country’s
educational system is not as effective as it used to. One of
the reasons is because current schools are built to promote
factory workers, focusing only on honing the children’s
listening skills and blocking out the children’s uniqueness by
making them learn the exact same skills. This method was
only effective when the Philippines first reached the
industrial age, wherein an abundance of jobs require people
to have the same skills. But factories nowadays have mostly
replaced human workers with robotic ones, making less
errors and lessens the need to pay salaries because they only
need to pay for repairs and/or maintenance of the equipment.
And besides, people nowadays prefer to have unique jobs or
jobs that pertain to their interests. The world changes rapidly
and the educational system cannot adapt to it quickly and the
school merely reinforces industrial age values.
 Statement of the problem

Here are a few reasons why our school system is flawed:

 Promotion of industrial age values – The school system

only promotes the values that were needed when the early
stages of the industrial age required it. Now, the children are
forced to cherish these values as if they are more important
than the things they are passionate about.
 Lack of Autonomy and control – The children’s time is
tightly controlled by the school for 5 to 8 hours a day.
Forcing the children to think that they are not in charge of
their own lives.
 Inauthentic or fake learning – The school system makes
the children think that the only way to learn is to memorize
the answers to every useless facts such as remembering dates
when certain events in human history happened, or what are
the places of the world where certain things happened.
 No room for passion – The school expects every child to
learn the same things at the same time and in the same way
as everyone else. We must not forget that everyone is unique
have our own ways of understanding and analyzing the
world around us.
 Differences on how we learn – Everyone of us has a certain
way of learning something. It may be on how much time it
takes for us to learn something, the tools and resources we
use that may aid us in learning. But the current system has
no room for such differences. So if a child is a little slow in
learning something, he or she is considered a failure.
 Lecturing – Sal Khan once said ”Lecturing is dehumanizing
experience.” But because of the technologies we currently
have, any person can learn as much as they want and when
they want it. Once again the school system interferes with
this in fear of losing control and does not promote the use of
gadgets that can easily do the job easier with little to no
failures. The fear of being reliant on technology is
unreasonable. Technology helps us in every way from
calculating equations to giving people with disabilities
another chance at living a normal life.

Acknowledgement
We would like to acknowledge Mrs. Jennyfel Awa-ao for
inspiring us to spread the word and raise awareness that our
system of education is flawed. And we would like to thank
our own initiative for standing up to this problem. With the
help of a few teachers and experts around the world, we were
able to realize that there has to be a proper solution to all of
this. And that is with innovation. Thank you very much.

Chapter II
Danilo Suarez (2015-2016)
It has been said that the economic development of any nation
is a function of the quality of its education. This basically
means that the higher the literacy rate, the greater the
chances of economic development. This point is made more
significant within the context of our modern globalized
world wherein, often characterized as a “knowledge
society”, education and information have become
increasingly more valuable than labor and financial capital,
consequently placing a premium on national investment in
human capital as a condition for international
competitiveness.
Last year, Lower Saxony became the last of Germany’s 16
states to abolish tuition for undergraduate students at all
public German universities. This means that both domestic
and international undergraduate students at
public universities in Germany can now study in Germany
for free, with just a small fee to cover administration and
other costs per semester. Moreover, German private
universities also currently have one of the lowest education
costs in the world, based on countries providing
internationally reputed higher education systems. These low
charges certainly have made studying in Germany an
attractive option for prospective students both (local and
international), and according to universities.com, it is now
the fourth most popular destination for further education
after the US, the UK and Australia.
Admirably, despite the fact that competition for funding and
accountability has been steadily increasing in German higher
education, the general consensus that it is a public system
and should be state-funded remains deeply rooted.
Comparatively, the Philippine educational system remains
highly challenged particularly in terms of lowering the costs
of education. For this School Year 2015-2016 alone, the
Department of Education (DepEd) allowed some 1,246
private schools to implement an increase in tuition and
miscellaneous fees. DepEd data showed that the highest
request for tuition fee and miscellaneous fees was 29 percent
while the lowest was at 1.25 percent.
For its part, the Commission on Higher Education (CHED)
also approved tuition hikes for 313 private higher education
institutions (HEIs) for the school year 2015-2015. Of the 313
HEIs, 283 implemented tuition fee increases while 212
increased other school fees. Across all regions, the recorded
average percent increase is 6.48 percent. Besides the
challenge of high tuition rates is the lingering problem of the
country’s brain drain. Former Education Secretary Bro.
Andrew Gonzales FSC described this and the interlocking
conflicts and resulting problems of higher education in the
country in a paper published many years back. Much of his
observations then however remain true and relevant to our
situation today.
One such observation is that our educational system
produces first-rate graduates for certain professions and
fields of specialization while failing to produce enough
graduates in the unpopular fields of pure science, middle-
level technician specializations, and graduate training for
research and higher education. Likewise, he remarked that
the few scientists and graduate degree holders trained abroad
similarly migrate to other countries, making the shortage
even more acute. For oversubscribed professions, graduates
seek overseas employment. In the meantime, he said, the
mismatch continues.
With 95 per cent of all elementary students attending public
schools, the educational challenge in the Philippines is
basically a crisis of public education. With an annual
population growth rate of 2.3 per cent or about 1.7 million
babies being born every year, limited educational provisions
are expected to post greater headaches in the future if not
given a responsive solution.
Chapter III

Conclusion
Throughout our research and studies concerning our
educational system we have concluded that our country,
despite its recent improvements, still has very poor quality.
Hopefully we have thoroughly persuaded you that our
beautiful country’s educational system can still be vastly
improved. It may have been effective back then, but times
are changing. Just because something works does not mean
it cannot be improved furthermore. Therefore our efforts to
impose a better educational system for our people is
completely valid.

Generalization
We should stop the ideology “If it’s not broken don’t fix it”
because it limits the possibilities of our country’s expansion
into the modern world. Our ideology on educational
improvements will be applicable to all. It will help
underdeveloped or slow students, create a better pathway for
our children’s future, re-educate the people, and generally
improve our learning system. Learning will be easier and
more efficient. Teachers will only teach what is necessary,
lessening the efforts needed by the teachers, and the students
will receive less work. Teachers will not be overworked and
students will receive little to no anxiety and depressive
thoughts due to many unnecessary projects.
 Recommendation

We would like to recommend a reformation of the laws

involving education. Update what is necessary and remove
those that will hinder further improvements. And teaching
methods should be re-evaluated and should be adapted to
today’s youth. Necessity is key. Funding should increased
for schools so many children may afford and earn a degree.
Additional items such as first-aid kits could also be useful
among schools.
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Information about the author(s)

I. Personal Information
Name: Lance Marcus Ignacio
Home: East Bajac-Bajac, Olongapo, Philippines
E-mail: [email protected]
II. Personal Data
Age: 15
Date of Birth: August 27,2003
Place of birth: Tipo, Roosevelt
Race: Filipino
Gender: Male
Name of Father: Jan Benedict Alagon
Name of Mother: Reina Caberic Ignacio
III. Education
School: St. Joseph
Elementary: St. Joseph Dinalupihan, St. Joseph Highschool
Olongapo
Secondary: St. Joseph College Olongapo

Interests and Aspirations

I am interested in writing, art, technological advancements,
hypnotism, deal-making, business related innovations and
many more. I aspire to be a great CEO of my own company
that specializes in many branches.