Parents for Education Foundation (PAREF) is an educational foundation established by parents that administers
schools for
basic education in the
Philippines. It owns several
single-sex Catholic school
Catholic schools are pre-primary, primary and secondary educational institutions administered under the aegis or in association with the Catholic Church. , the Catholic Church operates the world's largest religious, non-governmental school syste ...
s that are closely affiliated with
Opus Dei
Opus Dei, formally known as the Prelature of the Holy Cross and Opus Dei ( la, Praelatura Sanctae Crucis et Operis Dei), is an institution of the Catholic Church whose members seek personal Christian holiness and strive to imbue their work an ...
.
Profile
Founded in 1976, PAREF Schools aim to provide personal integral education to their students. Its core
educational philosophy
The philosophy of education is the branch of applied philosophy that investigates the nature of education as well as its aims and problems. It includes the examination of educational theories, the presuppositions present in them, and the arguments ...
rests on the principle, supported by research, that the fullness of a child's education is effectively realized through the integral formation first of the
parents, second of the
teachers, the two most influential teachers of children.
Member schools
PAREF presently has sixteen (16) schools:
References
External links
https://paref.edu.ph/
Educational organizations based in the Philippines
Organizations established in 1975
1975 establishments in the Philippines
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