Education plays an important role in the progress and development of any nation. It is a vital weapon for life. Taking into account the gigantic role of education, the institutions of learning must be able to raise the intellectual climate of the country because quality of education will predetermine the quality of life of the general society
Luistro (2010) cited that Philippine education is in a chronic illness because the problems that beset the system now have been in existence for closer to a century. Official statistics of the Department Education on the access of education, for school years, 2003-2004 to 2007-2008, revealed that net participation rate at the elementary level averaged 85% while that of the secondary level had the average
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The elementary course comprises six years (in some cases, seven years), the first four years termed primary grades and the last two years, intermediate …show more content…
The main objectives of elementary education are: (1) to provide knowledge and develop skills, attitudes and values essential to the children’s personal development and necessary for living in and contributing to a developing and changing milies; (2) to provide learning experiences aimed at increasing the children’s awareness of and responsiveness to the demands of society, and to prepare them for constructive and effective involvement; (3) to promote and intensify the children’s knowledge of, identification with, and love for the nation and the people to which they belong; (4) to promote work experiences aimed at developing and enhancing the children’s orientation to the world of work and creativity, and to prepare them for an honest and gainful work. (Bilbao,