To protect and promote the right of every Filipino to quality, equitable, culture-based, and complete basic education where:

Students learn in a child-friendly, gender-sensitive, safe, and motivating environment.

Teachers facilitate learning and constantly nurture every learner.

Administrators and staff, as stewards of the institution, ensure an enabling and supportive environment for effective learning to happen.

Family, community, and other stakeholders are actively engaged and share responsibility for developing life-long learners.

We dream of Filipinos

who passionately love their country

and whose values and competencies

enable them to realize their full potential

and contribute meaningfully to building the nation.

As a learner-centered public institution,

the Department of Education

continuously improves itself

to better serve its stakeholders.

The Department of Education is committed to provide learners with quality basic education that is accessible, inclusive, and liberating through: 

• Proactive leadership

• Shared governance

• Evidence-based policies, standards and programs 

• Responsive and relevant curricula

• Highly competent and committed officials, teaching and non-teaching personnel

• An enabling environment

The Department upholds the highest standards of conduct and performance to fulfill stakeholders' needs and expectations by adhering to constitutional mandates, statutory, and regulatory requirements, and sustains client satisfaction through continuous improvement of the Quality Management System.