Spanish Influence on the Philippine Culture including there contributions.

EDUCATION

SPANISH INFLUENCE ON THE PHILIPPINE EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM

Philippine education before the Spaniards came was informal and unstructured. Parents were the children's first teachers. For schools, the children went to the houses of tribal tutors where they were taught vocational subjects or what we would consider today as electives. 

During the Spanish period, tribal tutors were replaced by Spanish missionaries and education became religion-oriented. Education became exclusively for the elite in the early years under the Spanish rule. Later, education became accessible to Filipinos with the enactment of the Educational Decree of 1863. This decree provided for the establishment of at least one primary school in each town. It also provided for the establishment of a normal school for male teachers. Normal schools (teacher-training schools) were supervised by the Jesuits. Primary education was free. Spanish, as a subject, was compulsory.

MANNER OF DRESSING

Spanish Influence

Philippine history records Spain’s three centuries rule in our country. Such long period of time

enabled them to change the dress styles of our ancestors. Our current national clothes of barong for

men and Maria Clara for women are modernized versions of what they introduced to our forefathers.

ENTERTAINMENT

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SPANISH NAMES

AGRICULTURE

ARTS, MUSIC, and LITERATURE