TEXTBOOK ON THE PHILIPPINE CONSTITUTION
2. State power over educational institutions ........................ 692 3. Ownership, control, and administration of educational institutions by Filipino citizens ........... 693 4. Educational institutions established exclusively for aliens prohibited.................................................. 694 5. Exemption from taxes and duties of private schools........ 695
ARTICLE XIV — EDUCATION, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, ARTS, CULTURE AND SPORTS EDUCATION SECTION 1
1. Concept of education .......................................................... 648 2. Goals in giving priority to education, etc. ......................... 649 3. Right of all citizens to quality education........................... 650 4. Duty of the State to protect and promote right to quality education .................................................. 651 SECTION 2 1. Complete, adequate, and integrated system of education to be established, maintained, and supported ........ 655 2. System of education to be relevant to the needs of the people and society ..................................................... 656 educational system ................................................... 657 4. K to 12 basic education program ....................................... 669 5. System of a free public education to be established and maintained ......................................................... 670 6. Free tertiary education ...................................................... 672 7. Compulsory elementary education for all children of school age .............................................................. 672 8. Natural right and duty of parents to rear their children ........................................................... 673 9. Right of the State to a sufficiently educated citizenry .... 674 10. System of scholarship grants, etc., to be established and maintained ......................................................... 674 11. Non-formal, informal and indigenous learning systems, etc., to be encouraged ................................ 675 12. Training in civics, vocational efficiency, and other skills to be provided .................................................. 679 3. Measures to democratize and improve public
SECTION 5 1. Requirement in development of educational policies
and programs ............................................................ 697
2. Institutions of higher learning to enjoy
academic freedom ..................................................... 698 3. Meaning of academic freedom ........................................... 700 4. Importance of guarantee of academic freedom ................. 701 5. Guarantee not academic license ........................................ 702 6. Right of every citizen to select a profession or course of study ...................................................... 702 7. Role of teachers in the education of the youth.................. 703 8. Right of teachers to professional advancement ................ 705 9. Right of non-teaching academic and non-academic personnel ................................................................... 707 10. State to assign the highest budgetary priority to education ............................................................... 708 11. Duty of State to improve lot of teachers ........................... 708
LANGUAGE SECTION 6
1. Concept of language ........................................................... 710 2. Importance of language...................................................... 710 3. National language is Filipino ............................................ 711 4. Pilipino not immediately abrogated .................................. 713 5. Need for a national language............................................. 714 6. Use of Filipino as a medium of official communication and language of instruction...................................... 715
SECTION 3
1. Study of Constitution to be part of school curricula......... 681 2. Educational aims of schools ............................................... 682 3. Importance of values education ......................................... 686 4. Role of other sectors in the education of the youth .......... 688 5. Optional religious instruction in public elementary and high schools to be allowed ................................. 689
SECTION 7
1. Official languages of the Philippines ................................. 716 2. Need for communication skills in English ........................ 716 3. Auxiliary official languages ............................................... 718 4. Promotion of Spanish and Arabic languages .................... 719 5. Difference between official language and national language .................................................................... 719
SECTION 4
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Complementary roles of public and private educational institutions recognized ......................... 691
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