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 RAFAEL PALMA

 Born in Tondo, Manila

 Born on October 24, 1874
 died-Manila on May 24, 1939(brain tumor)
 Politician and brother of Jose
 He distinguished himself as an orator and
writer
 RAFAEL PALMA

The de
 Secondary – Ateneo Municipal Newspaper
A fictitious Manila
name – 1892
 Law – University of Santo founded by
Thomas
especially one
General Antonio
used by an
- passed the bar in 1901 Luna
author; pen
 Wrote for La Independencia name
 Wrote stories & editorials using Pseudonyms
 RAFAEL PALMA

 1st job – Clerk in the Bureau of Audit

 President – UP in 1923
 Senator
 Secretary of the Interior
 Delegate – 1935 constitutional convention
 RAFAEL PALMA

Palma was advanced in his ideas. He believed

that despite our imperfections, we should attain
a degree of perfection. i.e., find the selves we
were meant to be, and this quest or search
should start with an open and tough mind.
 RAFAEL PALMA

“The primary Devotionpurpose toof education,

according to Palma, theis towelfare
develop the individual
to his highest efficiency so that
of others he can be of use
to himself and to the community. Such a concept
is based on the philosophy of altruism and is
closely allied to citizenship.”
 RAFAEL PALMA
Education must produce individuals who are
both useful to themselves and to society.
 RAFAEL PALMA
“The teacher is not supposed to dramatize.
He has no right to impose on his students his
theories or personal belief. He is expected to
stimulate free discussion, leaving to his students
the choice of the system of thought which best
satisfies their reason.”
 JORGE BOCOBO

 Born in Gerona, Tarlac

 Born on October 19, 1886
 Died – July 23, 1965 (unknown place)
 Parents - Don Tranquilino Bocobo and Doña
Rita Teodora Tabago
 JORGE BOCOBO
 Law degree – Indiana University, 1907
(government pensionado-Scholar)
 Passed the bar – 1910
 Instructor – UP college of Law
- full professor & Dean
 Author, educator & political scientist
 JORGE BOCOBO
 5th president – UP in 1934
 Secretary of Public Instruction, 1939
 Justice of the supreme court, 1942-1944
 Chairman of the code Commission, 1947-1962
 Principal author of the Civil Code of the
Philippines- Presidential award, 1949
 JORGE BOCOBO
 Conferred the Doctor of Laws, honoris causa
by University of Southern California, 1930
 Indiana University, 1951 Awarded w/o
examination,
 University of the Philippines, 1952
conferred by a
college or
university
 JORGE BOCOBO
 He prepared himself well for any task that
awaited him. Into any undertaking, he always
put the best of his energies and, to use his own
expression, "made the failure of any work
which I undertake my own failure, its success
my own success."
 JORGE BOCOBO

“To my humble way of thinking education

(college) has for its supreme and overshadowing
aim the formulation of a sound and noble outlook
of life.”
 JORGE BOCOBO
 He stressed that Filipino culture and tradition
should be the bases of education in the
Philippines.

 According to him, the educational concept is

closely related to nationalism and love of
country.
 JORGE BOCOBO

 He also stressed that education in this country

should prepare the child for the democratic way
of life.
 Flora a. ilagan

 Born in Biñan, Laguna

 Born on December 22, 1893
 Died – March 15, 1969 @ age of 76
 Parents – Rev. Roman G. Amoranto, a
Presbyterian Pastor and Maria Alumno
 She married lawyer Pedro Ylagan
 Her Mater’s
Flora a. ilagan thesis on native
folklore earned
 Studied at the UP her a
she obtained: membership in
the Institute of
A.B., 1918
National
B.S.E., 1925
Language
M.A., 1934
 Studied at the Philippine Normal School
she obtained: Elementary Teacher
Certificate, 1914
 Flora a. ilagan
 National University
• taught English
• headed its English Department
 Founded National Teacher’s College in the
heart of Manila with Dr. Segundo Infantado,
1928
• School principal, 1929-1932
• Executive secretary, 1931-1941
 Flora a. ilagan
• Dean of instruction when it reopened after the
war, 1945
• President, 1963
• she was awarded the Presidential Medal of
Merit, 1957

 Philippine Women’s University – Doctor of

Pedagogy (honoris causa), April 1964
 Flora a. ilagan
 She contributed much to the amelioration of the
quality of Philippine education by producing
competent and well-equipped teachers, who
would be at the forefront of theTo grow
country’s
educational arena. better
 Her philosophy was “We educate the student
first as a man or a woman and second as a
teacher
 Flora a. ilagan
 The National teacher college believes:
• Democratic education for individual
responsibility and social competence
• Its main purpose is to prepare Filipino
teachers who are socially efficient and
responsive to the needs of the Republic of
the Philippines
 Flora a. ilagan
 National Teachers College seeks to educate and
train teachers:
• Who believe in the native ability, genius,
and possibilities of the Filipino people
• Who believe in and practice democracy as a
living faith and as a way of life
 Flora a. ilagan
 National Teachers College seeks to educate and
train teachers:
• Teachers who can interpret, transmit,
conserve and enrich Filipino culture
• Teachers who, with the necessary social
vision, actively assist in bringing about
desirable socio-economic change
 Flora a. ilagan
 National Teachers College seeks to educate and
train teachers:
• Teachers who are trained not only to use their
minds and hearts but also their hands and are
therefore able to lead the youth in increasing
numbers to participate actively and
intelligently in solving everyday problems
 Flora a. ilagan
 National Teachers College seeks to educate and
train teachers:
• Teachers who are equipped to guide future
citizens in developing integrity of character,
cultivating intellectual power, maintaining
physical vigor and nurturing spiritual strength
 Conrado benitez

 Born in Pagsanjan, Laguna

 Born on November 26, 1889
 Died on January 4, 1971 in Manila at the age of
82
 He married Francisca Tirona
 With 3 Children namely: Helena, Thomas and
Alfredo
Conrado benitez
 He spent his formative years under the
pervading atmosphere of Rizal’s nationalism
 Most of his life spent in public service through
the positions held in the government
Conrado benitez
 He started 1911 as a teacher in the Philippine
Normal School
 51 years later, he was still in the government –
as a counselor in Quezon City
 He was professor at the state university
Conrado benitez
 Appointed first Filipino dean of the College of
Liberal Arts
 He founded the U.P. College of Business
Administration
 He was made technical adviser of the First
Parliamentary Mission to the US, 1919
Conrado benitez
 He headed the Washington Press Bureau
 In 30’s, he became board member of various
government bodies
• National Economic Council
• Textbook Board
• Philippine National Bank
• Board of indeterminate Sentence
Conrado benitez
 He headed the Washington Press Bureau
 In 30’s, he became board member of various
government bodies
• The joint Preparatory Committee on
Philippine American Affairs
Conrado benitez
 In 40’s, he was assistant secretary to the
president of the Philippines
• Member of the president’s Joint Committee
to Revise the Bell-Trade Act
• He was one of the 7 members of the
committee that drafted the Philippine
constitution
Conrado benitez
 He was responsible for the clause on adult
education in Article 14, section 5 of the
constitution… “The Government shall
established and maintain a complete and
adequate system of public education, and shall
provide at least free public primary
Conrado benitez
Instruction and citizenship training to adult
citizen.
 In 50’s, he served as the Philippine
representative to the International Labor
Organization conferences
• He was a member of President Mag-saysay’s
San Luis Project Committee
Conrado benitez
 In 60’s, he was called on to serve the Citizen’s
League for Good Government
• He was drafted and elected as councilor
• He was one of the 7 wise men in the Quezon
City Council who sponsored and co-
sponsored ordinances for citizen
involvement in community affairs
Conrado benitez
 his passion for education, for stimulating in his
countrymen the desire to improve their lot
through participation and learning enabled him
to write books, articles, and other publications
on the social sciences.
Conrado benitez
 He was former newspaperman
 Was the first editor of the Philippine Herald
 He gave expression to his desire for
independence, for the preservation of values,
for nationalism
Conrado benitez
 He wrote books on history and social studies
 Conducted researches on business education and
economics
 He continued to teach Philippine history in the
classroom, teaching it with the wisdom of one
who had lived and written it
Conrado benitez
 He served the public for more than half a
century
• As public servant
• Community leader
• Educator
• Author
• legislator
Conrado benitez
 With dignity and vision, he secured into his
own life the gifts which he wished to bestow
upon others –
“teaching by example and sharing, yet
always bearing a blessing”
 FRANCISCA A. DENITEZ

 Born in Imus, Cavite

 Born on June 4, 1886
 Died on November 17, 1974 in Manila at the
age of 88
 She married Conrado Benitez
 With 3 Children namely: Helena, Thomas and
Alfredo
 FRANCISCA A. DENITEZ
 Also known as Mama B
 A living thinking, seeing, talking, and moving
mosaic form
 In her various function as wife and mother, as
woman and citizen, as social worker and
educator, she did not sacrifice one for the other
 FRANCISCA A. DENITEZ
 But each one enhanced and enlarged the other
in a blend that gave beautifully to the
perfection of a great personality and to a life
full in excellence, service, and dedication.
 FRANCISCA A. DENITEZ
 The ideal woman she believed every Filipina
should aspire to be: one who has successfully
combined the art of home- making and the
pursuit of a career, and still be of service to her
community.
 FRANCISCA A. DENITEZ
 Little Girl of the Revolution
• Francisca, the sixth child of Guillermo and
Jacoba Paredes noted teacher of Imus
Cavite, in a blood of five boys and nine
girls.
• Grew up during the period of blood and
tears
 FRANCISCA A. DENITEZ
 Little Girl of the Revolution
• She was born into a season in ferment, and
national aspirations fired hearts and minds,
when heroes walked the earth, when it was
counted as cavalier to give up one’s life for a
cause.
 FRANCISCA A. DENITEZ
 Little Girl of the Revolution
• And she lived a life like one driven by her
ideals, the forces of circumstances, and her
evolving perspectives.
• It was but 3 years after the execution of
GomBurZa in Cavite when her parents were
married in 1875.
 FRANCISCA A. DENITEZ
 Little Girl of the Revolution
• The girl was only 10 when Rizal was shot in
Bagumbayan, and twelve when Aguinaldo
declared an independent state in a
neighboring town, kawit.
 FRANCISCA A. DENITEZ
 Little Girl of the Revolution
• When revolution came, her father, who was
a treasurer of the revolutionary society,
dropped out of sight, and her mother,
together with local women and the girls,
took charge of the dead and wounded
coming from the battle fields.
 FRANCISCA A. DENITEZ
 Little Girl of the Revolution
• For this and other heroic acts, young
Francisca earned for herself the little of
“Little Girl of the Revolution.”
 FRANCISCA A. DENITEZ
 Seed of Visions
• As the revolution came to an end, while the
nation was flexing its wings to the new
governance and to the heady feelings of new
nationhood, Francisca and her family came
back to the placid life they had lived in imus.
 FRANCISCA A. DENITEZ
 Seed of Visions
• But with a difference. The experience of the
revolution had heightened her sense of love
and service to country and countrymen.
 FRANCISCA A. DENITEZ
 Seed of Visions
• While studying at the Philippine Normal
School she had a classmate, a good looking,
intelligent and able-bodied young man,
Conrado Benitez and later became her
husband.
 FRANCISCA A. DENITEZ
 Seed of Visions
• Among the projects both undertook with the
Association de Damas Filipinas was the
settlement House, which was to provide
shelter for those without homes and
unfortunate neglected children.
 FRANCISCA A. DENITEZ
 Seed of Visions
• The Settlement House had a big place in
Francisca’s heart, because as histo-rian
Maria Jeciel Empig related, while Conrado
was studying at the Univer-sity of Chicago,
she had taken interest in the Chicago
Settlement House,
 FRANCISCA A. DENITEZ
 Seed of Visions
• Which was supported by the University, and
he used to write Francisca about the Hull
House of Jane Adams for indigents and
unfortunates in Chicago
 FRANCISCA A. DENITEZ
 Seed of Visions
• And the seeds of a vision was born in her
heart for an institution of learning which
would embody all the things that she in her
growing perceptions on women’s education
decided in her heart should be.
 FRANCISCA A. DENITEZ
 Rise of the Philippine Women’s University
• On May 15, 1919, seven prominent women
formally opened the Philippine Women’s
College which was to be “a boarding school
for women only”
 FRANCISCA A. DENITEZ
 Rise of the Philippine Women’s University
• Where the girls would learn good manners,
clean habits, and honorable attitudes
• Where they would be taught to be useful in
the home
FRANCISCA A. DENITEZ
 Rise of the Philippine Women’s University
• To be the source of love and service to the
nation
• Women who worked not only in the home but
also helped others
• Served the good of the government and the
community
FRANCISCA A. DENITEZ
 Rise of the Philippine Women’s University
• The women were: Francisca Benitez, Paz
Marquez Benitez, Conception Aragon,
Carolina Ocampo Palma, Socorro Marquez
Zaballero, Clara Aragon, and Mercedes
Rivera.
 FRANCISCA A. DENITEZ
 Rise of the Philippine Women’s University
• On June 9 of the same year, it opened to
enrollees from Kindergarten to Third year
high school.
• Mrs. Paz Marquez Benitez was elected
President of the Corporation while the
founder became members of the Board.
 FRANCISCA A. DENITEZ
 Rise of the Philippine Women’s University
• She was also to be president of the college
and later of the now Philippine Women’s
University for the next 45 years.
• It was during her administration and prestige
it still carries to this day.
 FRANCISCA A. DENITEZ
 Rise of the Philippine Women’s University
• Francisca was elected president of the
corporation in June 1921 in absentia since she
was then expecting her fifth child;