Comments on: How About Aspiring Scholars?

By: ann

ann — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 15:19:48 +0000

If there’s a will, there’s a way. Maybe you’ll say that I can utter those words because I cannot relate to your woes. Maybe you’ll say that it’s easy for me because I was given a chance to go to college( I am from U.P.-but I have nothing against what you said,there’s truth in it but I am not a genius and I will never be one.) I will not say any advice, advice won’t make any difference in our world, but acting towards those advices would. Yes, today’s education is not a right but a privilege and there’s nothing we could do. It’s up to us to reverse that adage. Privilege doesn’t mean that only those who can afford would be given education. All of us wants change and I do hope that you’ll start the change we are rooting for. Besides, I.Q. like Einstein’s is not needed to spell those words-CHANGE. Looking forward for your success story to be featured on t.v.
;p

By: dherald

dherald — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 03:12:51 +0000

go to business then…

then go to college when you have the money.

i do not despise the author by writing this, though i find this article funny.

Note: the very disadvantaged sector of our people can’t have access to tertiary education, how much more knowing and doing email.

I have a housemate who is a student of UP who is from Bicol. His family lives in a makeshift hut but before and through college. Now, he has a laundry business that brings 15K a month. His customers, us, his classmates, dormates and friends. His initial capital P2000, owed us money for the rest of capital in exchange for a discount.

He is not even a business student. He’s an agricultural engineering student.

So I guess this is just a pessimistic point of view.

By: Buboy

Buboy — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 06:37:04 +0000

Reality bites… and Truth hurts…

It simply our world is… money talks and money moves the world…

Only the rich and with power can move this world… manipulate everything… and fabricate stories…

We have to face every challenge in our life with courage and perseverance…

Just live on and go on with your dream…that is the only thing which is free in this world…

By: Dean Jorge Bocobo

Dean Jorge Bocobo — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 13:05:22 +0000

Well there they go again. Ricky Carandang had a gaggle of Deped USecs on The Big Picture to talk about education. After an hour of batting the same old same old they come to this conclusion: it’s all to do with a lack of resources.

I say: B.S.!

It always ends with that same conclusion. It is time to challenge this kind of sterile, inutile thinking.

I really think it’s because the Govt simply cannot handle education. It’s too vast an enterprise for the central planners at Pasig. With nearly 20 million in the public schools there is simply no Filipino bureaucracy capable to doing anything but a mediocre job of it.

Yet over in the private sector, they seem to be doing just fine. Why is that? They say it is because the private schools get to charge a high tuition fee, whereas the public schools (at least up to high schools) are free.

But I really think the public schools are the main reason the private school tuitions are so high.

Just imagine what would happen to the price of hamburgers if the govt were to subsidize just one of the major fast food outlets, like let us say, Jollibee. Everyone would flock to the subsidized outlets, where of course quality would drop because it’s run by “free public money” except for those who insist on quality and are willing to pay a higher price that would only be artificially high because of the loss of market share.

I say: privatize education!

By: UP n student

UP n student — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 12:43:24 +0000

“Free education for all” does not extend beyond high-school.

And Dara writes much better English than a lot of those who have law or whatever degrees and now post in MLQ3′s site, do you notice?

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By: Dean Jorge Bocobo

Dean Jorge Bocobo — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 11:39:25 +0000

The govt already provides tuition free schooling for about 22 million students (growing by 2 million per year) at the high school and elementary levels.
But most college graduates come from private schools (with UP being the notable exception).

Yet we all know that public schools don’t educate. They are just aging vats.

It’s wrong to blame the sorry state of education on the expense of going to private schools though, because they are in fact the bright spot in the field. The only reason their tuitions are so high is because the public schools unfairly compete with them. Lookit, 150 billion was allocated to the Deped to run a basically dysfunctional system.

If the govt got out of the business, the private sector would move in (albeit with a religious vengeance). But I daresay Dara would stand a better chance of getting a good education that way.

(By the way, I suspect Dara is misrepresenting him or herself, or else he or she is a pretty smart dude or dudette. How many undereducated kids say stuff like, “Ergo, where do I go from here?”

Or, “So much for the hope of the nation.”

I estimate Dara’s age to be about 30 to 40 years old.

By: The Jester-in-Exile

The Jester-in-Exile — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 10:24:52 +0000

besides, with comments like those you'll find here, here, here, and here, it's kinda hard to say that you've gotta be a genius to be accepted to UP. :D

By: Jon Limjap

Jon Limjap — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 10:15:25 +0000

blackshama,

From the looks of it, Dara doesn’t claim herself as being a “genius” that’s why she didn’t avail of that.

De La Salle University also has Star Scholar and StuFAP (similar to UP’s StFAP) programs to cater to poor-but-deserving students.

By: blackshama

blackshama — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 09:14:56 +0000

“Why do you think puno ng magagandang kotse yung harap ng AS?”

Answer: They belong to Upsilonians! LOL!

“the rich kids will have a better chance of passing the UPCAT (because of tutoring, aceess to GRE/GMAT reviewers, etc.)than those from poor families, especially high schhol graduates from the rural areas.

Partially true but never completely. The admission system has certain “palugits” that favour those from the more disadvantageous sectors of society.

As for the reality that cannot be denied . RICH KIDS HAVE A BETTER CHANCE OF BEING ADMITTED TO LA SALLE OR ATENEO THAN TO UP!

However it is from the ATENEO that a realistic strategy to make disadvantageous kids get into good universities became successful. The Pathways program seems to work and if you want to know more about it and how to help, get in touce with Father Ben Nebres.