Language: The Soul of Culture and Heart of Identity

Abstract

Anguished disapproval from various stakeholders and proponents of the Filipino language and literature was met with insidious silence by those who should be the vanguards of our cultural heritage. Under the MO issued in 2013, the CHED reduced the General Education Curriculum (GEC) to a minimum of 36 units and ceased requiring Filipino and Philippine literature as core subjects in tertiary education.