La educación popular

El Heraldo de la Revolución was one of the first newspapers published only by Filipinos, and probably the first ever published in the independent nation. Created by the leader of the new Philippine Republic, Emilio Aguinaldo, on September 29, 1898, after declaring independence from Spain,it was the official organ of the Revolutionary Government. Edited in Casa del Sr. Gregorio Ramos in Malolos twice a week in both Spanish and Tagalog, it would cease publication after the fall of Malolos during the Philippine-American War in 1899. This article on the future education of the Filipinos stressed the importance of popular education quoting Belgian liberal thinker Émile de Laveleye’s L´instruction du peuple (1872) and defending universal instruction as a requisite, not only for the new “conquered independence” but also for a Modern Nation State based on universal suffrage. The article shows not only a knowledge of European thought but also a deep-rooted belief in progress and democracy and an affirmation of freedom and independence from the ominous foreign domination, months before the Americans would reestablish it under the pretext of the Filipino’s need for civilization, a claim proven wrong by the very state project of the Malolos Republic. 

Fecha

1898-12-15

Fuente

El Heraldo de la Revolución, year 1, num. 23, December 15, 1898, pp. 185-187. In Open Access Repository @ UPD.

Relación

Fernández, Doreen G. 1989. “The Philippine Press System: 1811-1989.” Philippine Studies 37, num. 3: 317–44.

Editor

Item held at University of the Philippines Diliman and University of Antwerp VLIRUOS Rare Periodicals Open Access Repository

Idioma

Spanish and Tagalog

Colaborador

Emilio Vivó Capdevila

Materia

Education

Philippine Revolution

Republic of Malolos