Several changes have been effected in the Philippine education system… thus making it attuned and more responsive to the community needs and contribute to the attainment of the country’s national development goals. The challenges to national development goals which education can help provide solution are i) widespread poverty, ii) inequitable distribution of wealth, iii) unemployment and underemployment, iv) population growth, v) low productivity, vi) rural and urban growth disparities, and vii) insufficient domestic resource mobilization (Muhi, et. al, 1986).
Considering that development areas are mainly economic problems, education is looked up as source of solutions to produce quality and highly trained manpower to fit in the requirements of economic development.
Any society for that matter is a company of people of culture and good breeding in a community. The members therefore, either individually or jointly aims to achieve stability, progress and prosperity. It means that society must strive to develop itself economically in terms of increase income, production and level of living. Furthermore, to become stable and prosperous, it must enhance social development by creating social structure, value system and incentives which favor economic and social progress.
If education is the creation of change upon individuals in terms of knowledge, skills and attitudes, it has a profound impact upon people’s ways of life, civil organization, and level of literacy; and that it contributes to the quantity and quality of occupational skills, being a source of skilled labor.
Demand for education can be stated into production purposes or for earning a living; and consumption or enjoying the fruit of living. It however requires long term span for its returns and has a lower rate of obsolescence than most physical things.
The education system is interlocked functionally with socio-economic environment. The expansion of education is linked to employment situation as people expect to earn a living commensurate with their educational attainment.
Education as a process would imbue upon individual the proper ideals, attitudes, values and aspiration; acquire knowledge, habits and skills so essentials in the intellectual, physical, social, emotional and spiritual well-being so that he can achieve self-realization and contribute to the well-being of the group. As citizen of a particular country become better educated, they come to enjoy richer life characterized by economic and social prosperity (Aquino, 1974).
By: Ms. Danah Mae L. De Belen | Teacher III | San Pablo Elementary School | Dinalupihan, Bataan
