The Desire for Education Role in National Progress

INTRODUCTION ABOUT THE CULTURE

In the past, Philippines has made great strides in education. This enabled us to attain a high literacy rate, making us one of the largest English-speaking countries in the world; in fact, the second best in Asia, after Japan. Our country was projected as home to the best agricultural and medical schools causing a reputation of offering the very great value of education. As generations passed, high literacy was maintained yet education as a whole was deteriorating in quality. According to Archbishop Rosales, literacy is entirely different from education, the former mean knowing the basics of reading and writing while the latter takes the whole person- his head, his body, his soul, his direction in life, his imagination, his vision,his faculties, his relationships. In other words, education refer to a person’s integral development and literacy refer to a person’s competence in reading, writing, computing etc. A person has to possess more than literacy to claim education. Filipinos are highly literate but may not necessarily mean highly educated. From resource, our literacy is trampled on by the deterioration of our proficiency in English as a number of Asian countries today are gaining english proficiency such as India and Singapore . Poor performances in numeracy dragged by failures in science and mathematics, these skills are highly required now in the era of information technology. Since education is the sole building block of an individual in order to rise from the crucial stages of human development up to the different contexts mentioned earlier, it supplies not only the knowledge but as well as the in-service trainingsneeded to be exposed to those different fields. A person cannot just master or be an expert of his craft without passing through the stages of education not solely on literacy.

The former successes of Philippine education has its corresponding shortcoming which continue to challenge the country entire....