EDUCATION: A KEY TO SUCCESS

Dr. Princess Maylene M. Maniacop

It is always said that "Education is the key to success" that it is the "most powerful weapon we can use to change the world." But, what makes education powerful in order to change the world and to mean success? Curriculum is the answer.

Education nowadays has been a bombarding issue to our nation driven by different curriculum. Curriculum in general is what is being taught in school, a set of subjects, content, a program of studies, a set of materials, a sequence of courses, a set of performance objectives, and everything that goes within the school. The learners, teachers, school managers, parents, and even the whole community make up the curriculum. They are all involved in developing the curriculum. The absence of one, curriculum is nothing and without curriculum education will not function formally because it is the "heart of education."

Because of fast changing world and obsolescence of knowledge, curriculum necessitates a continual revisions and updates to make it responsive to emerging change in the needs of the learners as well as the society. This analysis of the curriculums that were implemented in the name of education will help us see and recognize the features of each curriculum and the problems that they had encountered that caused the necessary adjustments and revisions. This will also show how curriculum shifts the process of education as it tries to educate the citizens of the Philippines.

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The author is Teacher III at Macabebe Elementary School , Macabebe East

District, Macabebe, Pampanga