III. THE EDUCATIONAL SYSTEMS... Batas Pambansa 232

III. THE EDUCATIONAL SYSTEMS

CHAPTER 1
Formal Education

Section 19. Declaration of Policy. - The State recognizes that formal education, or the school system, in society's primary learning system, and therefore the main instrument for the achievement of the country's educational goals and objectives.

Section 20. Definition - "Formal Educational" refers to the hierarchically structured and chronologically graded learning organized and provided by the formal school system and for which certification is required in order for the learner to progress through the grades or move to higher levels. Formal education shall correspond to the following levels:

1. Elementary Education. - the first stage of compulsory, formal education primarily concerned with providing basic education and usually corresponding to six or seven grades, including pre-school programs.

2. Secondary Education. - the state of formal education following the elementary level concerned primarily with continuing basic education and expanding it to include the learning of employable gainful skills, usually corresponding to four years of high school.

3. Tertiary Education. - post secondary schooling is higher education leading to a degree in a specific profession or discipline.

Section 21. Objectives of Elementary Education - The objectives of elementary education are:

1. To provide the knowledge and develop the skills, attitudes, and values essential to personal development and necessary for living in and contributing to a developing and changing social milieu;

2. To provide learning experiences which increase the child's awareness of and responsiveness to the changes in and just demands of society and to prepare him for constructive and effective involvement;

3. To promote and intensify the child's knowledge of, identification with, and love for the nation and the people to which he belongs; and

4. To promote work experiences which develop the child's orientation to the world of work and creativity and prepare himself to engage in honest and gainful work.

Section 22. Objectives of Secondary Education. - The objectives of secondary education are:

1. To continue to promote the objectives of elementary education; and

2. To discover and enhance the different aptitudes and interests of the students so as to equip him with skills for productive endeavor and/or prepare him for tertiary schooling.

Section 23. Objective of Tertiary Education. - The objectives of tertiary education are:

1. To provide a general education program that will promote national identity, cultural consciousness, moral integrity and spiritual vigor;

2. To train the nation's manpower in the skills required for national development;

3. To develop the professions that will provide leadership for the nation; and

4. To advance knowledge through research work and apply new knowledge for improving the quality of human life and responding effectively to changing societal needs and conditions.

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