Florentino Cayco

Florentino, who established Arellano University, began his career in education as a junior teacher in May of 1911. After completing his college degree and master's degree under the pensionado program, he served as Assistant Superintendent of City Schools (for the City of Manila) from 1922 to 1935. He was in the University of the Philippines' College of Education faculty, serving as professorial lecturer on Education, on School Administration and on Principles of Secondary Education. He was president of the Philippine Association of School Executives in the early 1930s. He was appointed in 1929 as member of the Committee on the Reconstruction of the Curricula, and as chairman of the Committee on Elementary Home Economics & Industrial Education. He wrote several articles and papers on the state of Philippine education, two of which are Why Blame the Public School and The Teacher and his Profession. He served as managing editor of the Philippine Teacher's Digest, and was editor of Boys & Girls: A Character-Building Magazine. He served as president of National University from 1936 to 1941. In 1945, he was appointed Undersecretary of the Department of Public Instruction and Information (now known as the Department of Education). He would assume the presidency of Arellano Colleges (and move it toward its transformation into Arellano University) in June 1946. Malabon de Sevilla Tree Custodian, 2023

References:

1) Arellano University; https://www.arellano.edu.ph/about-us/florentino-cayco-sr and https://www.arellano.edu.ph/about-us/history

2) University of the Philippines General Catalogue; Vol 11 (1925 - 1926) and Vol 12 (1926 - 1927)

3) Bureau of Education Memo #5 S 1929; dated 11 February 1929 Manila

4) Why Blame the Public School?; Philippine Education XX; February 1922; pages 455 - 456

5) The Teacher & His Profession; Philippine Teacher's Digest; February 1933; Vol 1 No 11; pages 3 - 8

6) The Official Roster of Officers and Employees in the Civil Service of the Philippines; 01 January 1912; Bureau of Civil Service Philippines; p 55

7) Twenty-Fifth Annual Report of the Director of Education: 01 January 1924 - 31 December 1924; 1925; p 60; Bureau of Education, Department of Public Instruction; the Government of the Philippine Islands

8) Boys & Girls: A Character-Building Magazine; December 1938

9) An Approach for School Leadership: An Abstract; Editha A. Lupdag-Padama; Arellano University Graduate School Journal vol. 9 no. 1 (2010); https://ejournals.ph/article.php?id=1797

10) Cornejo’s Commonwealth Directory of the Philippines (1939), by Miguel Cornejo (p. 1646, 2275-2276)

Photo courtesy of Arellano University; https://www.arellano.edu.ph/about-us/florentino-cayco-sr