This study aims to focus attention on the importance of including folk dancing in the programmed activities for Youth Development Training (YDT) in the public and private high schools and the role this could play in helping education make people develop and achieve national unity through national identity. It involved seventeen of the twenty-eight public high schools in the Division of City Schools, Manila. Respondents were 194 teachers of Health and Physical Education in thses schools for school year 1973-1974. The writer used the historical documentary analysis and normative-survey method. Findings revealed that the Philippine folk dances are rich in the indigeneous culture of the Filipinos and have developed in a certain measure an awareness of and appreciation that helped them develop a sense of national identity.