(What follows is the transcript of a short speech I delivered during our Independence Day rites this morning in the Philippine Science High School. Note that my audience are science scholars and it is for them that I wrote this message. Nonetheless, this is my reflection on this day itself and what it all means.) [...]
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June 1, 2008 By 12 Comments
School begins tomorrow; the more fortunate can afford a nine-day countdown. Soon, the news will report on even more shortages and excesses: too few classrooms, too many students. Then cue the pundits who decry politics and the academics who argue demographics. Finally, there will be the all too familiar picture of that education minister with [...]
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