Miseducation of Filipino Essay

Prof. Renato Constantino, in his essay entitled The Miseducation of the Filipino, writes about the coming about of the miseducation and the consequences of such action in the lives of the Filipinos, then, now, and perhaps the future. Promoting and imposing the unFilipino identity in Filipinos was the miseducation that Americans pursued during the time when they posed as a benevolent ally to the Philippines, and they proved victorious indeed because they had exclusively subjugated the Filipinos, both in minds and in hearts.Education is a very vital factor for aces development. And as we all know, through education, ones mind is molded because of the teachings, ideas, and values taught to him. Due to this fact, its only either of the two that will happen the person will become productive provided that he was taught with the right things, or, the person will become otherwise since he acquired negative things.Personally, I learned and realized many things about the history and blood between the Americans and the Filipinos upon reading this paper. It is quite intriguing what the main reasons really were the Americans in taking power over the Philippines. Was it for the dependable of the Filipinos or the Americans good? Whatever it was, they succeeded in almost every aspect of conquering the land because they knew the most effective way to subjugate Filipinos minds by controlling our education.They created a new generation of good colonials, the unFilipino Filipinos. The indigenous ways of career of Filipinos had been changed to the American way of life. That was ridiculous because certainly, America and Philippines vastly differed from each other in so many ways, and therefore, their ways of life based on their differing needs should be entirely different. But the Americans insisted on creating a carbon-copy of themselves in Filipinos through the imposition of their language in their education.I went to elementary and high school in the Philippines, and I kno w for a fact they used both Englishand Tagalog as the media of teaching. In the long run, I depend this resulted in both positive and negative ways positively, because I was uprooted to the U.S. and I was able to use the smattering English I know to communicate with others, and negatively, because as I have just realized, I feel the impediment in my thought process because I cannot think consistently in one language. solely in all, I liked this piece because it reiterates the importance of education to not only produce literate large number but also to produce people who would use that education to better their nation.