Objectives of Education
High School
- To continue to promote the objectives of basic education adopt
the emphasis on the mastery of basic tools of learning, expression, and
understanding to the use and extension of the tools for further
exploring and acquiring intellectual, social, moral and physical
concepts, ideals, attitudes and skills in order to develop the whole
human being.
- To discover and enhance, in addition, to the different attitudes
and interests of the individual student so as to equip him with
competence for productive endeavor and thus prepare him for work in
the real world and/or for further formal studies in higher education
(Section 22 of BP 232).
Tertiary Education
- To provide a general education program that will assist each
individual to develop his/her potential as a human being, enhance the
quality of citizen participation in the basic functions of society, and
promote each student a sense of national identity, cultural
consciousness, moral integrity, and spiritual vigor.
- To train the nation’s manpower in the required skills for national
development, and to instill and foster the appropriate and relevant
attitudes, skills and knowledge to enable each individual to become a
useful, productive, and gainfully employed member of society.
- To develop member and maintain the integrity of the profession or
disciplines that will provide the leadership for the nation.
- To advance the frontiers of knowledge through research work, and
apply the technology gained for improving the quality of human life
and responding effectively to changing societal needs and conditions
(Section 23 of BP 232).
Technical Vocational
- Promote and strengthen the quality of technical education and skills
development programs to attain international competitiveness.
- Focus technical education and skills development on meeting the
changing demands for quality middle – level manpower.
- Encourage critical and creative thinking by disseminating the scientific
and technical knowledge - based of middle – level manpower
development programs.
- Recognize and encourage the complementary of public and private
institutions in technical education and skills development and training
systems.
- Inculcate desirable values through the development of moral character
with emphasis on work ethics, self-discipline, self-reliance and
nationalism. (Section 24(3) of BP 232)