for progress.
             Education is a concept that does not lend itself to easy and straightforward generalizations. Traditionally, it is regarded as something that goes on in schools. Education is also referred to as learning. Although learning and education are closely related, they are not the same. True, education occurs through the process of learning but the learning process does not always lead to education. Unlike other learning processes that are naturally occurring, schooling is continuous, deliberate and a systematic process. Schooling may or may not attain its educational objectives for some reason.
             Schooling is brought on by schools, which in turn are part of a larger network along with other schools. This larger network is what is known as the educational system, which delivers education to its students.
             An education system maybe conceptualized as an institutionalized process of knowledge transmission, which takes place within a structure of power relationships through which constraints are operated
             As a social institution, education has three principal aspects. First, selection mechanisms support and are directly affected by prevailing social relations in a society. Second, consciousness formation focuses on the ways by which knowledge is brought to the students in order to produce a variety of ways of looking at the world. Finally, power distribution refers to the allocation of control in educational decision-making (Daronilla and Cortes 3-4).
             The Philippine school system presently is a huge network of schools and a gigantic enterprise. Today, the system is largely a product of the country's colonial experience. Undoubtedly, the school system introduced by the Spaniards and later by the Americans was functional in its assumptions and orientations. Schools were established by these colonial powers to socialize the people into their colonial statuses and roles and to develop the knowledge, attitudes and skills req...