Preservation of Filipino Language

"Bear in mind that the wonderful things you learn in your schools are the work of many generations, produced by enthusiastic effort and infinite labor in every country of the world. All this is put into your hands as your inheritance in order that you may receive it, honor it, add to it, and one day faithfully hand it to your children. Thus do we mortals achieve immortality in the permanent things which we create in common." - Albert Einstein

This quotation of Einstein best refers to the social institutions that promote education and preserve quality education. In this paper, the local government and the lay and religious missionary groups are given the emphasis on their roles in education specifically in one of each area which is the promotion of the national language- Filipino.

Filipino is the national language of the Philippines; thus, it is for ethnic Filipino groups to acquire this language.

For it to be successful, it can be said that the local government and lay and religious missionaries play a big role in promoting the national language, especially among ethnic groups.

For local government units (LGUs), it is their responsibility to provide supplementary funding support to public basic education because they have access to a sustainable source of financial resources. LGUs are considered to be partners of the national government in the promotion of education particularly in the delivery of basic education services.

In connection to the teaching of Filipino, LGUs can also be considered as partners for they provide financial support to sustain the needs of students in books and other needed facilities needed for learning. Moreover, LGUs can legislate laws that promote the use of the Filipino language during events, occasions, and other relevant happenings such as celebrations within the local cities and towns. These things are very much essential for ethnic groups to see the relevance of the use of Filipino which therefore leads them to embrace the language that binds the nation they belong to.

On the other hand, the lay and religious missionary groups also play a role in the promotion of Filipino as a national language. This can be proven as to when these missionaries gage to share their doctrines to the various ethnic groups in the Philippines in which they need to communicate through a common language that both parties do understand. Thus, these missionaries contribute to the teaching of Filipino.

With these two social institutions, it is true that education and the preservation of language only happen when these institutions and the others work together.

Thus, as a teacher, though I am teaching English, I should never forget that Filipino is the language that I first embraced in this world; and so be it to the students that I am to be with.