uired of subservient and loyal subjects.
             Under Spain, the natives were taught literacy in order for them to read and learn Christian doctrines. Early education under the Spaniards was mainly in the hands of Catholic missionaries whose chief objective was to Christianize the people and convert them to the Catholic religion. However, the elementary and secondary education in the Philippines has its roots in the American colonial period in the country. In 1901, the US colonial government through a military commission issued Act No. 74 which created a Department of Public Instruction "to insure a system of free primary instruction for th
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