Editing Ferdinand Marcos (section)

===Educational system===
Marcos emphasized educational infrastructure during his first presidential term. He was more willing than previous presidents to use foreign loans to fund construction projects allowing him to construct more roads and schoolbuildings than any previous administration.<ref name="Kasaysayan9ch10" />{{rp|page=128}}

47 colleges and universities were established during Marcos's 21-year administration.<ref>{{cite web |last=Arillo |first=Cecilio |date=November 7, 2015 |title=Marcos's unmatched legacy: Education |url=http://www.businessmirror.com.ph/marcoss-unmatched-legacy-education/ |website=[[BusinessMirror]]}}</ref>

The Philippine education system underwent two major periods of restructuring under Marcos: first in 1972 with ''Bagong Lipunan'' (New Society) and again in 1981 when the [[Fourth Philippine Republic]] was established.<ref name="Maca2018EducationLaborExport">{{cite journal |last=Maca |first=Mark |date=April 2018 |title=Education in the 'New Society' and the Philippine Labour Export Policy (1972–1986) |journal=Journal of International and Comparative Education |volume=7 |issue=1|pages=1–16 |doi=10.14425/jice.2018.7.1.1 |doi-access=free}} Maca, 2018.</ref>

''Bagong Lipunan'' marked the first major restructuring of Philippine education since Americans arrived around 1900.<ref name="Maca2018EducationLaborExport" /> It reoriented the teaching of civics and history<ref name="Maca2018EducationLaborExport" /><ref>{{Cite book |last=Abueva |first=Jose |title= Marcos and Martial Law in the Philippines |publisher=Cornell University Press |year=1979 |editor-last=Rosenberg |editor-first=David |location=Ithaca |pages=35–36 |chapter=Ideology and Practice in the 'New Society'}}</ref> so that it would reflect ''Bagong Lipunan''<nowiki/>'s ideology of constitutional authoritarianism.<ref name="NaveraMetaphorizingMartialLaw" /><ref name="PalgraveNewHistoryofSEA">{{Cite book |last=Ricklefs, M. C. |title=New History of Southeast Asia. |date=2010 |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan |isbn=978-1-137-01554-9 |oclc=965712524}}</ref>{{rp|page=414}} In addition, it attempted to synchronize the curriculum with the administration's economic strategy of labor export.<ref name="Maca2018EducationLaborExport" />

The second restructuring in 1981 failed as the administration was distracted by economic crises.<ref name="Maca2018EducationLaborExport" />