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IMPORTANCE OF DEMOCRACY
• The democratic form of government enables each citizen to grow and live the social interaction with his
environment with other citizens.
• Democracy provides an active participation for all.
• It is important in a democracy that education must encourage those habits of behavior that are consistent
with democratic living.
• The school must provide experiences or develop experiences which will enable the student to live a
happy life which is characterized by good health, vocational skills, worthy use of leisure and ability to
adjust with others, and to deal with social problems.
• The teachers in a democracy must bear in mind that learning is an individual matter.
EDUCATION IN A DEMOCRACY
• The curriculum of the school must be child and problem centered. Instruction must be individualized
through the use of units and projects based upon the experiences, needs and interests of the learners.
• The education in a democracy needs school which involves actions.
• The method of teaching in a school in a democracy is based upon individual problems which affect the
lives of the pupils in a democratic community.
• The purpose of education in a democracy is to develop the individual as a free man.
• The aim of education in a democracy is the welfare of the individual, yet it recognizes that a good life for
individual is to seek only the good in society and in the state.
• Education in a democracy must recognize the right of all to full and equal opportunity to share in the
cultural and educational, the artistic and intellectual life of the nation.
• Education in a democracy must be liberating education – liberating in the sense that it will free man from
ignorance, superstition, fear, prejudice, unnecessary physical handicaps, and the necessity of using force
in the solution of social and economic problems.
• Education in a democracy must put emphasis on values – expressed in terms of the acquisition and
refinement of standard values – physical, intellectual, emotional and moral.
• In a democracy there is no such thing as absolute freedom. It is only the freedom to do what is right, what
is just and what is good. It is the freedom to enjoy one’s right without trampling upon the rights of others.
• The following must be considered in regard to the function of education in a democracy.
1. Education in a democracy must have its main concern in the welfare of all people of the world.
2. Education in a democracy must serve each individual with justice, to provide equal educational
opportunity for all, regardless of intelligence, race, color, religion, social status, economic condition or
vocational plans.
3. Education in a democracy must be considered with the maintenance of the economic, political, and social
conditions which are necessary for the enjoyment of liberty.
4. Education in a democracy must use democratic methods, and observe democratic practices in
administration, supervision and in the guidance of pupils’ activities.
5. Education in a democracy must teach through experience that every privilege entails a corresponding
duty, every authority a responsibility, which responsibility is due to the group which granted the privilege
or authority.
6. Education in a democracy must seek to promote loyalty to democracy and keen, positive understanding
and appreciation of democratic ideals by summing youth to serve for a greater cause.
7. Education in a democracy must guarantee to the adult members of the community the right to share in
determining the purposes and policies of education.
8. Education in the democracy must develop citizens who are easy to lead, but difficult to drive, easy to
govern but impossible to enslave.
9. Education in a democracy must transmit truths and values through tentative and experimental manner.
Critical thinking is also utilized in the process.
10. Education in a democracy has two major functions, to impart accumulated knowledge and traditions, and
to encourage the discovery of new truth.
• Primary objectives of the Filipino teacher in a democracy is to act as the agent of the government in
promoting, protecting and conserving our individual and national ideals and rights as free individuals in a
free and independent nation.
ACADEMIC FREEDOM
• It is generally agreed that academic freedom has the following characteristics:
A. The total freedom of the learner or teacher to the meaning of any idea.
B. Freedom to research to arrive at a solution to problems.
C. Freedom to express oneself in speech or in writing regarding his findings.
D. Freedom to express or write the results of his research or experiments.
E. Freedom to express or write the result of his studies or research as a citizen in a democracy
F. Freedom from reprisals as a result of the expression or in writing ideas.
• Academic freedom in the Philippines is a fundamental legal right which is a much entitled to judicial
protection as any other constitutional right.
Disability
• In education, treating individuals with disabilities the same as those without does not always suffice to
treat all equally, for disabilities sometimes give rise to special needs and requirements and this raises
challenges for ‘inclusion’ (Warnock 2005). In order to avoid these challenges, it seems that we might
need to endorse differential treatment, which can lead to stigma and division and has been associated
with educational segregation.
REFERENCES:
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/equal-ed-opportunity/
Gregorio, Herman C., et.al. “Philosophy of Education in Philippine Setting”. R.P. GARCIA Publishing
Company, 903 Quezon Avenue, Quezon City:1979, pp. 93 – 114.