Take Note:
Spanish - Reigned for 300 years
Americans - Reigned for 50 years
Japanese - Reigned for about four years
It is thus not surprising that despite the measure they had instituted, the Japanese
failed to succeed in transforming the values and attitudes of the people in line with
their vision of the new order.
A contributory factor was widely reported brutalities that ushered in the Japanese
occupation that the Filipinos did not experience with the same degree during the
American period.
In 1947, by the virtue of Executive Order No. 94, the Department of Instruction was
changed to "Department of Education." During this period, the regulation and
supervision of public and private schools belonged to the Bureau of Public and
Private Schools.