The Filipino Educator and their Philosophies

Prepared by:Belly Ray F. Ang

RAFAEL PALMA

Born in Tondo, Manila Born on October 24, 1874 died-Manila on May 24, 1939(brain

tumor) Politician and brother of Jose He distinguished himself as an orator

and writer

RAFAEL PALMA

Secondary – Ateneo Municipal de Manila – 1892

Law – University of Santo Thomas

- passed the bar in 1901

Wrote for La Independencia

Wrote stories & editorials using

Pseudonyms

The Newspaper founded by

General Antonio Luna

A fictitious name

especially one used by an author; pen name

RAFAEL PALMA

1st job – Clerk in the Bureau of Audit

President – UP in 1923

Senator

Secretary of the Interior

Delegate – 1935 constitutional

convention

RAFAEL PALMA

Palma was advanced in his ideas. He believed that despite our imperfections, we should attain a degree of perfection. i.e., find the selves we were meant to be, and this quest or search should start with an open and tough mind.

RAFAEL PALMA

“The primary purpose of education, according to Palma, is to develop the individual to his highest efficiency so that he can be of use to himself and to the community. Such a concept is based on the philosophy of altruism and is closely allied to citizenship.”

Devotion to the

welfare of others

RAFAEL PALMA

Education must produce individuals who are both useful to themselves and to society.

RAFAEL PALMA

“The teacher is not supposed to dramatize. He has no right to impose on his students his theories or personal belief. He is expected to stimulate free discussion, leaving to his students the choice of the system of thought which best satisfies their reason.”

JORGE BOCOBO

Born in Gerona, Tarlac

Born on October 19, 1886

Died – July 23, 1965 (unknown place)

Parents - Don Tranquilino Bocobo and

Doña Rita Teodora Tabago

JORGE BOCOBO Law degree – Indiana University, 1907

(government pensionado-Scholar)

Passed the bar – 1910

Instructor – UP college of Law

- full professor & Dean

Author, educator & political scientist

JORGE BOCOBO 5th president – UP in 1934

Secretary of Public Instruction, 1939

Justice of the supreme court, 1942-1944

Chairman of the code Commission, 1947-1962

Principal author of the Civil Code of

the Philippines- Presidential award,

1949

JORGE BOCOBO Conferred the Doctor of Laws, honoris

causa by University of Southern

California, 1930

Indiana University, 1951

University of the Philippines, 1952

Awarded w/o

examination,

conferred by a

college or university

JORGE BOCOBO

He prepared himself well for any task that awaited him. Into any undertaking, he always put the best of his energies and, to use his own expression, "made the failure of any work which I undertake my own failure, its success my own success."

JORGE BOCOBO

“To my humble way of thinking

education (college) has for its supreme

and overshadowing aim the formulation

of a sound and noble outlook of life.”

JORGE BOCOBO

He stressed that Filipino culture and tradition should be the bases of education in the Philippines.

According to him, the educational concept is closely related to nationalism and love of country.

JORGE BOCOBO

He also stressed that education in this country should prepare the child for the democratic way of life.

Flora a. ilagan

Born in Biñan, Laguna Born on December 22, 1893 Died – March 15, 1969 @ age of 76 Parents – Rev. Roman G. Amoranto, a

Presbyterian Pastor and Maria Alumno She married lawyer Pedro Ylagan

Flora a. ilagan Studied at the UP

she obtained:A.B., 1918B.S.E., 1925M.A., 1934

Studied at the Philippine Normal School

she obtained: Elementary Teacher Certificate, 1914

Her Mater’s thesis on

native folklore

earned her a membership

in the Institute of

National Language

Flora a. ilagan National University• taught English• headed its English Department Founded National Teacher’s College

in the heart of Manila with Dr. Segundo Infantado, 1928

• School principal, 1929-1932• Executive secretary, 1931-1941

Flora a. ilagan

•Dean of instruction when it reopened after the war, 1945• President, 1963 • she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Merit, 1957

Philippine Women’s University – Doctor of Pedagogy (honoris causa), April 1964

Flora a. ilagan She contributed much to the

amelioration of the quality of Philippine education by producing competent and well-equipped teachers, who would be at the forefront of the country’s educational arena.

Her philosophy was “We educate the student first as a man or a woman and second as a teacher

To grow better

Flora a. ilagan The National teacher college believes:• Democratic education for individual

responsibility and social competence

• Its main purpose is to prepare Filipino teachers who are socially efficient and responsive to the needs of the Republic of the Philippines

Flora a. ilagan

National Teachers College seeks to educate and train teachers:• Who believe in the native ability,

genius, and possibilities of the Filipino people

• Who believe in and practice democracy as a living faith and as a way of life

Flora a. ilagan

National Teachers College seeks to educate and train teachers:• Teachers who can interpret,

transmit, conserve and enrich Filipino culture

• Teachers who, with the necessary social vision, actively assist in bringing about desirable socio-economic change

Flora a. ilagan

National Teachers College seeks to educate and train teachers:•Teachers who are trained not only to use their minds and hearts but also their hands and are therefore able to lead the youth in increasing numbers to participate actively and intelligently in solving everyday problems

Flora a. ilagan

National Teachers College seeks to educate and train teachers:•Teachers who are equipped to guide future citizens in developing integrity of character, cultivating intellectual power, maintaining physical vigor and nurturing spiritual strength

Conrado benitez

Born in Pagsanjan, Laguna Born on November 26, 1889 Died on January 4, 1971 in Manila at

the age of 82 He married Francisca Tirona With 3 Children namely: Helena,

Thomas and Alfredo

Conrado benitez He spent his formative years under

the pervading atmosphere of Rizal’s nationalism

Most of his life spent in public service through the positions held in the government

Conrado benitez He started 1911 as a teacher in the

Philippine Normal School 51 years later, he was still in the

government – as a counselor in Quezon City

He was professor at the state university

Conrado benitez Appointed first Filipino dean of the

College of Liberal Arts He founded the U.P. College of

Business Administration He was made technical adviser of the

First Parliamentary Mission to the US, 1919

Conrado benitez He headed the Washington Press

Bureau In 30’s, he became board member of

various government bodies• National Economic Council• Textbook Board• Philippine National Bank• Board of indeterminate Sentence

Conrado benitez He headed the Washington Press

Bureau In 30’s, he became board member of

various government bodies• The joint Preparatory Committee on

Philippine American Affairs

Conrado benitez In 40’s, he was assistant secretary to

the president of the Philippines• Member of the president’s Joint

Committee to Revise the Bell-Trade Act

• He was one of the 7 members of the committee that drafted the Philippine constitution

Conrado benitez He was responsible for the clause on

adult education in Article 14, section 5 of the constitution… “The Government shall established and maintain a complete and adequate system of public education, and shall provide at least free public primary

Conrado benitezInstruction and citizenship training to

adult citizen. In 50’s, he served as the Philippine

representative to the International Labor Organization conferences• He was a member of President

Mag-saysay’s San Luis Project Committee

Conrado benitez In 60’s, he was called on to serve the

Citizen’s League for Good Government• He was drafted and elected as

councilor• He was one of the 7 wise men in

the Quezon City Council who sponsored and co-sponsored ordinances for citizen involvement in community affairs

Conrado benitez his passion for education, for

stimulating in his countrymen the desire to improve their lot through participation and learning enabled him to write books, articles, and other publications on the social sciences.

Conrado benitez He was former newspaperman

Was the first editor of the Philippine Herald

He gave expression to his desire for independence, for the preservation of values, for nationalism

Conrado benitez He wrote books on history and social

studies Conducted researches on business

education and economics He continued to teach Philippine

history in the classroom, teaching it with the wisdom of one who had lived and written it

Conrado benitez He served the public for more than

half a century• As public servant• Community leader• Educator• Author• legislator

Conrado benitez With dignity and vision, he secured

into his own life the gifts which he wished to bestow upon others –

“teaching by example and sharing, yet always bearing a blessing”

FRANCISCA A. DENITEZ

Born in Imus, Cavite Born on June 4, 1886 Died on November 17, 1974 in Manila

at the age of 88 She married Conrado Benitez With 3 Children namely: Helena,

Thomas and Alfredo

FRANCISCA A. DENITEZ Also known as Mama B

A living thinking, seeing, talking, and moving mosaic form

In her various function as wife and mother, as woman and citizen, as social worker and educator, she did not sacrifice one for the other

FRANCISCA A. DENITEZ But each one enhanced and enlarged

the other in a blend that gave beautifully to the perfection of a great personality and to a life full in excellence, service, and dedication.

FRANCISCA A. DENITEZ The ideal woman she believed every

Filipina should aspire to be: one who has successfully combined the art of home- making and the pursuit of a career, and still be of service to her community.

FRANCISCA A. DENITEZ Little Girl of the Revolution• Francisca, the sixth child of

Guillermo and Jacoba Paredes noted teacher of Imus Cavite, in a blood of five boys and nine girls.

• Grew up during the period of blood and tears

FRANCISCA A. DENITEZ Little Girl of the Revolution• She was born into a season in

ferment, and national aspirations fired hearts and minds, when heroes walked the earth, when it was counted as cavalier to give up one’s life for a cause.

FRANCISCA A. DENITEZ Little Girl of the Revolution• And she lived a life like one driven

by her ideals, the forces of circumstances, and her evolving perspectives.

• It was but 3 years after the execution of GomBurZa in Cavite when her parents were married in 1875.

FRANCISCA A. DENITEZ Little Girl of the Revolution• The girl was only 10 when Rizal was

shot in Bagumbayan, and twelve when Aguinaldo declared an independent state in a neighboring town, kawit.

FRANCISCA A. DENITEZ Little Girl of the Revolution• When revolution came, her father,

who was a treasurer of the revolutionary society, dropped out of sight, and her mother, together with local women and the girls, took charge of the dead and wounded coming from the battle fields.

FRANCISCA A. DENITEZ Little Girl of the Revolution• For this and other heroic acts,

young Francisca earned for herself the little of “Little Girl of the Revolution.”

FRANCISCA A. DENITEZ Seed of Visions• As the revolution came to an end,

while the nation was flexing its wings to the new governance and to the heady feelings of new nationhood, Francisca and her family came back to the placid life they had lived in imus.

FRANCISCA A. DENITEZ Seed of Visions• But with a difference. The

experience of the revolution had heightened her sense of love and service to country and countrymen.

FRANCISCA A. DENITEZ Seed of Visions• While studying at the Philippine

Normal School she had a classmate, a good looking, intelligent and able-bodied young man, Conrado Benitez and later became her husband.

FRANCISCA A. DENITEZ Seed of Visions• Among the projects both undertook

with the Association de Damas Filipinas was the settlement House, which was to provide shelter for those without homes and unfortunate neglected children.

FRANCISCA A. DENITEZ Seed of Visions• The Settlement House had a big

place in Francisca’s heart, because as histo-rian Maria Jeciel Empig related, while Conrado was studying at the Univer-sity of Chicago, she had taken interest in the Chicago Settlement House,

FRANCISCA A. DENITEZ Seed of Visions• Which was supported by the

University, and he used to write Francisca about the Hull House of Jane Adams for indigents and unfortunates in Chicago

FRANCISCA A. DENITEZ Seed of Visions• And the seeds of a vision was born

in her heart for an institution of learning which would embody all the things that she in her growing perceptions on women’s education decided in her heart should be.

FRANCISCA A. DENITEZ Rise of the Philippine Women’s

University• On May 15, 1919, seven prominent

women formally opened the Philippine Women’s College which was to be “a boarding school for women only”

FRANCISCA A. DENITEZ Rise of the Philippine Women’s

University• Where the girls would learn good

manners, clean habits, and honorable attitudes

• Where they would be taught to be useful in the home

FRANCISCA A. DENITEZ Rise of the Philippine Women’s

University• To be the source of love and service

to the nation• Women who worked not only in the

home but also helped others• Served the good of the government

and the community

FRANCISCA A. DENITEZ Rise of the Philippine Women’s

University• The women were: Francisca Benitez,

Paz Marquez Benitez, Conception Aragon, Carolina Ocampo Palma, Socorro Marquez Zaballero, Clara Aragon, and Mercedes Rivera.

FRANCISCA A. DENITEZ Rise of the Philippine Women’s

University• On June 9 of the same year, it

opened to enrollees from Kindergarten to Third year high school.

• Mrs. Paz Marquez Benitez was elected President of the Corporation while the founder became members of the Board.

FRANCISCA A. DENITEZ Rise of the Philippine Women’s

University• She was also to be president of the

college and later of the now Philippine Women’s University for the next 45 years.

• It was during her administration and prestige it still carries to this day.

FRANCISCA A. DENITEZ Rise of the Philippine Women’s

University• Francisca was elected president of

the corporation in June 1921 in absentia since she was then expecting her fifth child;