Escuela Nautica de Manila: A Beacon of Educational Modernization in the Nineteenth Century

• Main Authors: Ay-ad, Philip, Aguilar, Filomeno V.
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2022
• Subjects: nautical education; nineteenth century; Philippines; Spanish colonialism; modernization; Asian History; History
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/history-faculty-pubs/121; https://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/articulo?codigo=8765991
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

Science education in the nineteenth-century Philippines has been portrayed generally as highly deficient, perpetrated by Rizal's depiction of a class in Physics at the Universidad de Santo Tomas. The historiography of education has reinforced this view by default. Yet Rizal hinted that scientif...