Famous Educators

FAMOUS FILIPINO EDUCATORS :
Their Philosophy, Their Greatest Contribution to the Philippine

Educational System and their traces in the present times
Jeorge Cleofas Bocobo
Born: October 19,1886 in Gerona Tarlac

Died: July 23,1965
Profession: Educator, Journalist, Lawyer
Education: Indiana University, Law of Degree
Education
• His mother taught him the alphabet his father taught him how to write.
• He started his formal education in Gerona where he had to work as an
apprentice in the municipal government.
• He went to manila in 1903 to school in Padre Faura street.
• The Philippine Commission had able to send him students to participate
in the Pensionado program that sent exceptional Philippine students to
America to attend a U.S. college.
• Took up special summer classes at santa Barbara California
• Indiana university to study law and graduated at year 1907
Works
• 1907- Law Clerk in the executive Bureau
• 1911- Began teaching in Philippine University College of law.
• 1914-1917- dean college of law in Philippine UNIVERSITY.
• 1939-He retired as UP president and become a secretary of public
instruction during the time of President Manuel Quezon.
• 1942-1944- Justice of the supreme court and chairman of the code
commission
• 1949- Principal author of the Civil Code of the Philippine.
As an educator
He promoted the Boy Scouts among the Protestants.
- As an educator, he was strict in implementing rules and always insisted on the highest
standard of training.
- He is a moralist and a disciplinarian.
- He is influencial in the education of the Philippines.
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*Philosophy
• Filipino culture and tradition should be the bases of education in the Philippines.
• Educational concept is closely related to nationalism and love of country.
• Education in this country should prepare the child for the democratic way of
life.
Contribution
• strict in implementing rules and highest standard of training

• teaching should not be only doling out knowledge or moral principles but to
inspire the student to live up to those principles.
• He work to instill the nationalism in the youth and to promote more Filipino
sources of education pushing the observance of the historical events.
• He believe the importance of education for women.
• He implemented improvement of the teaching method,student guidance, a
reading period before final examinations and the formation of alumni institute of
technology.
Flora Ylagan
Born: December 22, 1983 in Binan Laguna
Died: March 15, 1969
Profession:
Dr. Flora A. Ylagan, a dedicated educator and civic-spirited citizen, is the co-
founder of the National Teachers College. By her own account, her interest in
teaching and the preparation of good teachers arose from her unfortunate
experience as a young pupil under a cruel teacher.
Not many years later, she undertook the long and arduous preparation for the
place she now occupies in the educational world of our country. She trained for
elementary teaching at the Philippine Normal School. A few years later, she
wound up serving as critic teacher in her Alma Mater. In addition, she served as
an instructor of English at the National University. She took her Bachelor of Arts
degree at the State University, after which she became head of the Department
of English at the National University. During the ten years of her service in this
department, she undertook to complete the BSE degree at the University of the
Philippines.
Philosophy
We educate the student first as a man or a woman and as a teacher to grow
better.
Democratic education for individual responsibility and social competence.
It’s main purpose is to prepare Filipino teacher who are socially efficient and
responsive to the needs of the republic of the Philippines.
Contribution:
• The amelioration of the quality of Philippine education by producing
a well-equipped teachers who would be at the forefront of the
country educational arena
Conrado Benitez
Born: November 26,1889, Pagsanjan Laguna
Died: January 4, 1971 in Manila
Profession: Teacher,President Assistant Secretary,Editor, Newspaper
Man,high moral educator
contribution
Philosophy
 The function about school is to fit the individual for the past
TH. Pardo D. Taveras
Born: April 13,1857 on Manila

Died:
Profession: Scientist, Doctor and stateman
Philosopy
Education should instill love for work and spirit of tolerance,respect for
law,love for peace and practice of thrift.
Francisca Terona Benitez
Born: June 14,1886 in Imus Cavite
Died:
Philosophy
She believed that every Filipina should aspire to be: one who has
successfully combined the art of homemaking and the pusuit of the
career and still be of service to the community
Contribution
• Founder of Philippine Women University
Lourdes Quisombing
• Born:February 13,1921, Compostella Cebu
• Died: October 14,2017
Profession: First female Secretary of Education, culture and
sport,secretary of UNESCO
Philosophy
• Education must strengthen the dignity of the learner as human
person. As such the various dimensions of man personhood has to be
fully developed by the school system trough an effective and
systematized values of education
Contribution
• Expansion of free education, in the secondary level an increase in the
national budget
• Rationalization of higher education
• Emphasis of values education
Leonor Briones
• Born:
• Profession:
Philosophy
Contribution
• Continuation of k-12 program implementation which began in 2012
• During the covid 19 pandemic shifting the face to face class into
blended approach

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FAMOUS FILIPINO EDUCATORS :

Their Philosophy, Their Greatest Contribution to the Philippine

Born: October 19,1886 in Gerona Tarlac

• strict in implementing rules and highest standard of training

Born: April 13,1857 on Manila

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