Return history to K-12

My Inquirer column today on the return of History as a separate subject in the K-12 curriculum, provided errors and distortions are purged from our PH history textbooks, and that we review pedagogy or the way history is taught not as civics but as a means to critical thinking and committed citizenship.


From the queries I receive online, almost daily, from students taking the college course on Philippine history from primary sources, it seems that teachers leave them on their own. With no presc...