Compare And Contrast Educational System In The Philippines

I’ve been exposed to two different, yet similar educational system in my life. The first one was in the Philippines, where I got my elementary and high school diploma from a Public School and my Bachelor Degree in Accountancy from a private Catholic College. The second one is here in the United States, when I studied in Skyline for a year in 2005 and came back this year after ten years of absence. In between those years, I graduated from a private school of Vocational Nursing. Both of them has almost the same curriculum and use English as a medium of instruction But their impact and influence in my life have been so different. Since the Philippine educational system was established under the control of the colonial governments of Spain and the United States, I grew up with a colonial mentality; looking to everything “American” as good and superior. But all of this colonial mindset started to crumble down when I became a part of the Skyline College school system, and been involved in ASTEP and KABABAYAN

The Philippine government and private institutions should fully support the educational system hand in hand through implementation of polished education policies and programs, key systems reforms, improve the quality and equity of basic education, and to have accountability with full funding for building new schools, trainings for teachers, reformatted textbooks designed for Filipino students written in Philippine national language, and so on. Future leaders, businessmen, teachers, professionals, workers and parents are being trained and raised up in schools. I believe in our church’s principle, “Change the campus, Change the