On February 2007, Atheista wrote a post on Chiz Escudero for a Dumber Philippines. I’m going to quote the same privilege speech because ironically the house server couldn’t open it out:
So here goes the privilege speech:
Mr. Speaker, ang isang dahilan kung bakit kada taon marami tayong classrooms na kinakailangan ay dahil napakaraming nasisira sa kakulangan ng supisyenteng pondo para i-maintain at i-repair lang sana ang mga classrooms na ito.
Secondly, Mr. Speaker, we should and we propose that the curriculum be restudied. Mr. Speaker, I know that this will generate a lot of debate but I hope that our colleagues will listen for awhile. Sa ngayon, umaabot sa nine to eleven ang subjects ng ating mga estudyante sa elementary at high school. Nakukuba na ang ating mga estudyante sa kakabitbit ng napakaraming libro. Subalit ang tanong ko ho: Ito ba ay angkop pa rin sa pangangailangan ng ating bansa sa ngayon? Ang kanila po bang pinag-aralan ay nagagamit nila sa kanilang buhay sa labas ng paaralan at magagamit kapagka sila ay naghanap ng trabaho?
I can only cite myself as an example, Mr. Speaker, but mula po nung natapos ako nung high school hindi ko pa nagamit ang Calculus, hindi ko pa ho nagamit and Trigonometry, hindi ko pa ho nagamit and Algebra, IYUNG GEOMETRY, SA BILYAR KO LANG NAGAMIT. At iyong mga ibang itinuturo ay marapat sigurong ituro sa kolehiyo kung nais maging inhinyero ng isang bata. Iyong mga ibang itinuturo, marapat sigurong ibigay na lamang nating sa kanila sa kolehiyo o bilang elective pagdating ng high school.
This isn’t about defending the current state of education in the Philippines, which has been discussed time and time again by The Jester-in-Exile and blackshama (update: must read, btw those two articles, which show insight into education). This is about building and designing the future and Mr. Escudero seemingly, in spite of his youth, doesn’t have the understanding, imagination nor courage to do it. To a certain extent, so far, none of those thinking of running or planning to run seem to have it as well.
If you’ve been reading my posts for quite sometime, you’re probably so sick of me quoting Sir Ken Robinson’s TedTalk on why schools kill creativity:
But something strikes you when you move to America and when you travel round the world; every education system on earth has the same hierarchy of subjects, everyone. It doesn’t matter where you go. You think it would be otherwise, but it isn’t. At the top are Mathematics and Languages, then the Humanities, and at the bottom are the Arts, everywhere on earth. And in pretty much every system too. There’s a hierarchy within the Arts; Art and Music are normally given a higher status in schools than Drama and Dance. There isn’t an education system on the planet that teaches Dance everyday to children the way we teach them Mathematics. Why? Why not? I think this is rather important. I think Math is very important, but so is dance. Children dance all the time if they are allowed to, will do. We all have bodies, don’t we? Did I miss a meeting? Truthfully what happens is as children grow up we start to educate them progressively from the waist up and then we focus on their heads and slightly to one side.
If you were to visit education as an alien and say, ‘what is it for? Public education‘. I think you’d have to conclude, if you look at the output… Who really succeeds? Who does everything they should? Who gets all the Brownie points? Who are the winners? I think you’d have to conclude the whole purpose of public education, throughout the world, is to produce university professors, isn’t it? They’re the people who come out the top and I used to be one, so there! You know, and I like university professors, but, you know, we shouldn’t hold them up as the high water mark of all human achievement. They’re just a form of life, you know, another form of life. But they’re rather curious and I say this out of affection for them. There’s something curious about professors in my experience, not all of them, but typically they live in their heads. They live up there and slightly to one side. They’re disembodied, you know, in a kind of literal way. You know, they look upon their body as a form of transport for their heads. You know, it’s… don’t they? It’s a way of getting their heads to meetings. If you want real evidence of out of body experiences, by the way, get yourself along to a residential conference of senior academics and pop into the discotheque on the final night. And there you will see it; grown men and women writhing uncontrollably off the beat, waiting to end so that they can go home and write a paper about it.
Now our education system is predicated on the idea of academic ability and there’s a reason; the whole system was invented round the world there were no public systems of education really before the 19th Century, they all came into being to meet the needs of industrialism. So the hierarchy is reasoned on two ideas; number one, that the most useful subjects for work are at the top. So you had probably steered benignly away from things at school when you were a kid, things you liked on the grounds that you would never get a job doing that. Is that right? Don’t do music you are not going to be a musician. Don’t do art, because you won’t be an artist. Benign advice. Now profoundly mistaken. The whole world is engulfed in a revolution. And the second is academic ability, which has really come to dominate our view of human intelligence because the universities designed the system in their image. If you think of it the whole system of public education around the world is a protracted process of university entrance and the consequence is that many highly talented, brilliant, creative people think they’re not, because the thing they were good at in school wasn’t valued or was actually stigmatised and I think we can’t afford to go on that way.
In the next thirty years, according to UNESCO, more people worldwide will be graduating through education than since the beginning of history, more people. And it’s the combination of all the things we’ve talked about; technology and it’s transformational effect on work, and demography and the huge explosion in population. Suddenly degrees aren’t worth anything, isn‘t that true? When I was a student if you had a degree, you had a job if you didn’t have a job it was because you didn’t want one. And I didn’t want one, frankly. But now kids with degrees are often heading home to carry on playing video games. Because you need an MA where the previous job required a BA and now you need a PH D for the other. It’s a process of academic inflation. And it indicates the whole structure of education is shifting beneath our feet.
(emphasis, mine).
We live in the 21st Century and though sometimes it doesn’t seem like so, the world is moving towards a technological and digital universe. War is being fought via remote control, flying UAVs, governments are attacked left and right using the Internet. That is just the beginning. Everything we do from shopping to communicating with each other is done in a digital universe. Whether or not it is medicine, public service, architecture, even cruise ships are seeing massive transformation. And behold they use math and computers and the basis, the infrastructure of those things run on things like Calculus and the hard sciences. Music has its basis on Math, as well. We need literature and an understanding of sciences. They go hand in hand. They’re not mutually exclusive.
The sciences also make us less superstitious and in my humble opinion makes us more religious, if we choose to see it that way.
Not surprisingly too, the future of digital media, require tomorrow’s graduate to be verse not just in the technical aspect but in the creative side, the arts as well.
The point is, if we make education simply geared towards making employees to find jobs that is doing our people a great disservice. That’s not education at all. Schools become factories. I’m well aware of the stark reality: jobs to feed the family. That’s not an excuse for making people smarter, nor opening whole new worlds.
I’m also well aware that all men are created equal, meaning having equal rights, but not all men are exactly created the same way. Some are smarter. Some are faster. Some have a talent for cooking. Some have a talent for other things. If we do not shift Education to be geared at making a person, we’re creating generations of slaves. We’ve got to see Filipinos for the boundless possibility that they are: human beings.
Tomorrow is about a total human being: a creative intelligence. We must reconstitute our conception of the richness of the Filipino capacity. So I ask you this: If all Filipinos would disappear tomorrow, would it make a difference, at all?
I don’t think our politicians whether Escudero or the rest of them realize this. I hope I’m wrong but a vote for Escudero, in particular, as well as every candidate running for public office, so far, is a vote against Geekdom. It is a vote for a dumber Philippines. It is a vote for making future Filipinos the underclass of the world. That’s just gut wrenching. Filipinos are better than that. There is so much more out there. There is a rich Filipino capacity, we should have the willpower to unleash it.
Oh, before you comment below, If you haven’t had a chance to read ‘em: Benign0 wrote about Platform, plez and Primer asked “President Panilio?” and I think both are must reads going into the next presidential election.
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I once had a brilliant professor in college. He looked like a truck driver, big paunch, small tie resting on it. He stroked his chin as if deep in thought as he lectured. He once said our education system is upside down. We start broadly, and then in college get narrower and narrower. We should start narrowly, he figured, stroking that chin. And get broader and broader, into the sciences and arts and all about.
So I decided to do that, system be damned. Well, alas, my lazy brain has some limits, but, baby, I do get around . . .
A hot topic in the US now is telemedicine. Getting medical care through audio-visual connection, as in internet. The world is indeed a’changing, but I hope there will always be people who can paint with a brush and write a poem off the top of their heads.
If the Philippines does not teach in English, it is slipping into a severe case of regression . . .
Joe
A hot topic in the US now is telemedicine.
Joe:
I and my younger bro were discussing teleradiology and telepathology with my dad exactly more than three years ago while he was still dean of a medical school in Davao City. We also discussed integrating smart cards into a province-wide Electronic Medical Records system. Including medical tourism.
There were two models for telemedicine we were pushing – the first model was built around the BPO model. We will have Philippine based radiologists and pathologists interpreting diagnostics from the US. The second model was Philippine-based. Our hospital in Davao City will serve as the telemed center and the nodes will be the rural/provincial health centers.
I had the bill of materials fully costed out ; i have the process flow fully written in detail – kaso, when it was negotiation time with the doctors and the hospitals – all i saw was a blank look of a deer staring in headlights at midnight.
Then a year or two after, the DOH comes up with a hyped-up something that uncannily resembled what was being discussed. hay buhay
BongV,
Deer in the headlights, indeed. They didn’t know what they didn’t know, and they did not want to know.
You should pursue the Davao plan again, using the DOH as your “credibility” factor. It is still a good idea.
Joe
in my own opinion its not better that Senator Chiz Escudero will run for the next presidency why because he is not capalble of doing some things in having the nation as one though i believe that he is good for some reasons but experience could ever build him up through at times that Philippines is needing of a person who will fulfill the things that could see the improvement and development.in his case, he is the number one senator but he needs to improve more in aspects of political issues and problems.we should have at least know him better in the senate right after he has shown more of his works and platforms maybe he could ever run for his candidacy as to be the next president of the philippines.
he has the nationalistic purposes but less of having the great modes of being the president.
On the validated condition that a vote for Chiz Escudero is in effect a vote for dumber Philippines, then, I would vote “naye”.
Besides, how indeed was it “cooked” rather prematurely if not presumptuously that a citizen not yet of prescribed or qualified age even as much as start a ‘trip’ to the presidency?
Please follow my drift. I find this ‘intellectually overstretched’.
“Preemptive strike if you will”. Primer, If i’m not mistaken, he will decide/announce on his birthday whether to run. Based on the number of people wanting him to run and the reason why he wants to run– people need to know the guy’s stance. I think he’s all wrong for this country.
Honestly, after reading Sen. Chiz Excudero’s privileged speech, how can one ever take him seriously as a presidential candidate? Education is one of our most cherished goal in our society and for him to say that we should trim the curriculum and reduce it to the most basic subjects speaks volumes about the absence of gray of matter in his brain. We are already lagging behind our Asian neighbours with the present curriculum. Instead of stepping on the gas towards a more progressive education in the Phil., he is putting the brakes on. I just came from an energy conference and one panellist who has over 40 years experience said that if we want our grandkids to succeed, we should get them to learn Mandarin and nuclear science since it would be the only source of energy that would be around by then and China would be a major superpower and he is saying this to native English speakers. We know he is half-jooking but there is some truth in his statement.
“…IYUNG GEOMETRY, SA BILYAR KO LANG NAGAMIT.”
Hmmm. Ilang units kaya and kinuha ni Efren Bata Reyes on Euclidean science. Vicarious, visceral villainy.
Same old song. . .All we are are dust in the wind:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qxSwJC3Ly0
Imagine the following effects of trimming down the curriculum as Chiz suggests:
[1] Right from the start, children’s scope of knowledge will be deliberately limited. Only several years later will they find out how ill-equipped they were made to deal with adult life.
[2] Graduates are mass produced due to lax requirements. Underemployment surges further as companies are cautious not to accept the same graduates as routinely as they were allowed to finish school.
[3] Those who do find employment face an undocumented but observable ceiling in advancement a few years into their job. By now they also find that their respective HR departments have reservations as to how trainable they could be for advancement.
[4] The public notice that despite all the experts’ harping on “improving” Philippine education several years before, they are sorely proven wrong. The poor lose any faith they might have had left in the educational system, the middle class start to question whether it’s still worth keeping the kids studying here, and the wealthy send all (not some) of their kids abroad to study.
[5] The unemployed poor rise in far larger numbers, and more people desperate for work accept employment that gives even less pay and zero benefits, takes more hours, fewer opportunities, and worse overall working conditions. Showbiz, politics, basketball, and shedding dignity at Wowowee become even more attractive shortcuts to making money.
[6] More of the middle class focus their energy in attempting to leave the country for a better life, while those who can’t are funneled to work for call centers and below-the-line promotion TPAs. (This part already sounds very familiar.)
[7] Those who manage to go abroad find that the jobs available to them despite their having graduated are cleaning toilets, pumping gas, and wiping floors of fastfood restaurants.
[8] While every other family struggles to get food on the table and secure some money to insure against illness, the politicians who spend taxpayers’ money as their own pay no attention to the economic woes Escudero’s brilliant idea has created.
It would be very interesting if Chiz’s own children were put through the same educational system he’s proposing.
Joe,
Let me just share to you what one of those things that BF has discussed to impart his own vision for the Philippines.
He was theorizing that in fact, those years in the elementary or those years in high school or for that matter all those years in college can in fact be ‘stored’ in a VCD or DVD or CD such that what one may have taken a whole year to finish can be learned in only 3 hours.
For instance, your ordinary college algebra that you take for one semester, you can only learn in perhaps, 2 hours of listening to a VCD, DVD, CD or these geek gears.
I am waiting for the 4-year law course to be just taught in 6 pcs of VCD, DVD, or CD then the bar exams. This means, I can buy them in any store at the mall. Funny, but geekdom has the geeks and geeks have the ‘kingdoms’ – they rule.
Untrue. Sen. Escudero’s statements on this matter are frequently misrepresented as his saying that these subjects have no place in the high school curriculum, which is inaccurate. Rather, he argues that we should seriously review the curriculum of the public secondary school system so that it focuses on providing students with the skills necessary to become productive members of society, such as communication skills, basic math skills, and computer know-how. He suggests that higher math subjects should still included in the public high school curriculum, but as electives, since these will be useful primarily to students who plan to take up math-related courses (i.e., engineering) in the future.
While Chiz agrees that higher math subjects teach analytical and critical thinking, he believes that other, more basic subjects can likewise teach these important skills.
As a former teacher and as the son of educators––father Sonny was the youngest dean of the UP College of Veterinary Medicine and mother Evelina still teaches at the State University––Chiz is an ardent advocate for educational reform and believes that education is the key to providing Filipinos with a means to better their lot in life and contribute positively to society.
Chiz is an idiot.
How can that statement of his be misrepresented??? Yang mga subjects na ‘hindi niya nagamit’, mga basic high school subjects yan sa developed countries, countries which are developed precisely because they focused on science, math, and technical skills.
To say these are ‘higher’ math subjects is insulting to Filipinos. Kung kaya ng Hapon or Finn yang mga subjects na yan in High School ibig sabihin ni Chiz walang kapasidad ang Pinoy at the same level??
Higher math subjects eklat…basic subjects nga yan eh.
No To Chiz! Ipalaman sa basur!
Yes cocoy, to say it plain, Chiz is just one of ‘usual errors’ in our realpolitik.
Math na naman ang issue ninyo dito? Nagkokopyahan kayong mga bloggers ano?
Saka bakit paingles ingles kayo? Kaya kayo di binabasa ng tao eh, mga high falluting words ang gamit ninyo dito ayan di kayo manalo sa mga kalaban ninyo. Olat pa rin kayo sa mga walang kwenta ninyong issues. Kayo kayo rin lang nagbabasa at nagsasagutan dito.
Simple lang ang ibinabahagi ni Chiz sa privelege speech niya, bawasan ng mga subjects kundi angkop para sa isang kurso na gugustuhin ng tao at kung ito ay makakatulong sa kanila sa oras na maka-graduate na.
HINDI NIYA PINAPAALIS TOTALLY ANG ALGEBRA AT TRIGINOMETRY, ginawa niyang halimbawa ito bilang siya ay isang abogado na talaga namang di niya nagagamit.Pwedeng kunin iyon ng estudyante sa kolehiyo or elective sa High School. Natural kung mag aabogado ka sayang naman ang pera at oras na kinukuha mo ito sa basic course mo di mo naman magagamit pag kinukuha mo na ang major course mo. Simple lang ang issue dito, gamitin ang tamang subjects sa tamang kurso ng makatipid din naman ang tao sa pera at panahon. Pag engineering ang kinuha natural mandatory me subjects na ganon. Sa totoo naman ang algebra at calculus di na nagagamit sa pag disenyo at pag estimate ng structures ah. May mga direct formulas na gamit ang mga engineers. Kailangan lang namin ang algebra, trigonometry at calculus sa pag derive ng formulas, at eto ang end product/formulas na ginagamit sa pagdesign, nakplasta na ang formulas na gagamitin namin sa pagdesign.
Sus naman masyado ninyo pinapalaki ang issue sa pag extract ng mga alimuong ng inyong imahinasyon.Gamitan pa ninyo ng santambak na english kakatamad basahin talaga ang blog mo.Ikabit pa ninyo sa isyung di siya dapat maging pangulo? Bakit ito lang ba ang magpapagulong sa buong ekonomiya natin? Saka tinabingi ninyo ang issue eh, pinagrabe ninyo, ke gaang unawain ng sinsabi niya, kayo naman astang matalino na me sentensya na kayo sa tao.
Anong magagawa ninyo kung mas gusto siya ng mas nakararami? Ah oo nga pala takot na ang umiiral sa inyo kaya todo tira na ang ginagawa ninyo sa kanya.
Kala niyo naman ikatutumba na ng ekonomya ang balaking iyon or suggestion ni Chiz eh pagdedebatihan pa yan sa kongreso. Sa suggestion niya sa mga kasama niya sa Kongreso, pwedeng pakinggan, pwedeng paglabanan, pwedeng manalo siya o matalo siya. Nagpapalahaw na kayo ng iyak di pa nga yan pinagsasabunutan sa session hall.
Alam ko di mo ito ipopost, kasi pinagtatanggol ko si Chiz. O e ano, basta nasabi ko sayo gusto ko na laos na isyu na to pare.
Hay naku, mag aral kayong abutin ang kamalayan ng pangkaraninwang tao di sa ganitong venue ninyo maitutumba si Chiz, sa lansangan ang mga supporters ni Chiz na naabot niya ang puso at isipan. Kahit gaano katindi ang mga ingles ninyo dito, sayang lang itong ingles ingles mo rito…di ko nga binasa eh hehehe kakapagod!
Saka bakit pala di ka tumakbo, astang magaling ka naman eh . Run as president…but I’m not sure if I can remember your name huh. Anyway, will not vote for you..
Wow! another chiz fan. Let me just share a certain anecdote about your idol…
Three years ago, Chiz Escudero was asked to ba a speaker in a youth IT congress in quezon city. Before his turn on the stage, he asked the organizers if he can say anything bad about GMA. The organizer replied, “sure you can. here in the University, you can say whatever you please.” Of course, when it was finally his turn to speak, this was Chiz’s opening line, “Bago po ako nagsalita, nagpaalam ako sa mga organizers kung pwede akong magsalita against GMA. Hindi po ako pinayagan. Subalit magsasalita pa din ako laban kay GMA.” His fans roared and applauded the guy to high heavens. Galing di ba? Nagpabango at the expense of the organizers!
Now say whatever you want about his exploits in the senate (which consists mainly of bashing Gloria Arroyo), his eloquence, or hell, even his looks. A candidate who engages in such blatant politicking (ang bata pa trapo na) does not deserve my vote.
ang babaw mo naman? di mo makuha ang sense of humor ni chiz? bakit wala ba siyang karapatang magbitiw ng mga salitang sa kanya ay biro at kinagat ng masa? naiinggit ka lang sa style ni chiz na wala sa kandidato mo.
bulag ka kung sa pananaw mo namumulitika lang si Chiz, malamang kumikita ka kay GMA, kami gising sa mga kalokohan ni GMA, DI KAMI UTO-UTO!
kung malaking kasalanan sayo ang pagiging matuligsa ni Chiz, samin malaking kasalanan ang pagnanakaw ng tropa ni GMA sa atin kasi buwis ko ninanakaw nila GMA. Mas okay na maingay ang senador may nakukuha kaming balita sa mga kalokohan nila GMA, kaysa sa tahimik na mga senador na nambubutas na nga ng bangko di pa makanti si GMA kasi takot di datnan ng pork barrel nila.
paki ko kung di mo siya iboto, di lang boto mo magpapanalo sa kanya no, marami kami.
saka kung ngitngit ka dahil pogi si Chiz, di na ninyo maiaalis sa kanya yun bigay na sa kanya yun ng kapalaran, inggit ka lang. Siguro pangit ka rin gaya ko pero di ako inggitero.
does someone have the whole speech? that first part seems strange, like maybe its a joke.
either he made a joke, or he changed his mind:
http://www.chizescudero.com/video/64/chiz-talks-about-investing-on-the-youth-and-the-future
this is pretty standard stuff he’s reciting on the video, but its not the anti-learning guy he sounds like in the quoted part of the speech.
Sen. Escudero is too young. He needs more experiences in life to
have a good perspectives on things and realities.
Education is an ongoing process. We learn from schools, books, experiences, workplaces, travels; being exposed to different people,
places and cultures. And being exposed to the world.
We were young also. We thought we have the answers to all things. As
we grow old. We learn that we have to learn more things. And found out, how little did we know.
To sum it all, a Good Leader must have both the experiences and the educations to lead. As well as good judgements. Public leadership is not an internship or a training place. People’s lives are affected by your good or bad decisions.
Check out Chiz’ performance at the University of the Philippines High school. Not in UP law. If you can win in a class election at UP High then you do have a chance to be a great President of the Philippines. Look at Ferdinand Marcos.
However the people who did win the class presidency have been successes in advocacy work. One of them is a brilliant lawyer that if he did run for political office, he definitely will make this Chiz upstart a run for his chips as they say. But this lawyer represents those who can’t afford a good lawyer!
Good in school does not always translate to good in life accomplishments or good leadership. Leadership is a talent, like singing, dancing, music, arts, mathematics etc…
The great British leader Winston Churchill did not made good in
school. Yet, he was an extra ordinary leader and politician. School
accomplishment is just one of the factors. There are born leaders, born business people, born musicians, born singers, born writers, etc… the talents just sprout out naturally in these people.
We do not just depend on people who just rely on books. We look more on experiences and talents.
Hehe, lemme play around..
I think you need Physics, not Geometry in Billiards
I believe Math, in general, helps with logic, rationality
Algebra in relationships,
Statistics in estimation,
Fractions in value assessment
Music in coordination
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On a more serious note, I believe that the primary and secondary curriculum should be kept as it is. Instead, certain areas of instruction should be strengthened like areas in history, economics, the T.H.E., and somehow a more extensive introduction to law, government & the constitution. Perhaps an extra year or two in secondary ed to give more time in considering one’s future profession.
I don’t believe in tailor fitting the curriculum in order to encourage/favor specific professions (e.g. strengthening math and sciences for making engineers & scientists). Basic and secondary education should remain fairly general. Students should be given a free hand to choose which course to take in college.
Rather, What I believe is the use and control of government institutions, especially tertiary professional/technical/vocational educational institutions, to produce graduates who can contribute to the achievement of the Republic’s goals or to become a part of the bureaucracy
I think the government should not pay for or SEVERELY limit funding on these tertiary courses:
Law
Political Science
Social Sciences
Journalism/Writing
Mass Communications
Human Kinetics @@
Fine Arts/Music
History/Araling Panlipunan
What we need are more students in:
Agriculture
Sciences
Engineering
Medicine
Education
Liam,
Thought-provoking comments. I think your curriculum, however, is too much trade-tech, and has no place to develop “managers” or “creative thinkers” or “economists” who govern it all. It would also be a cold, cold society without the arts or the ignorance of lawyers.
Joe
the private sector are pumping adequate number of managers, economists, business professionals..
lawyers and artist; we already have lots of them.. in fact, we already have so many of them that they are literally littered all over government..
lol, i just realized that my curriculum looked a lot like Germany..
This utterance certainly damns Escudero for me. In addition to the fact that he is the son of a Marcos crony. Maybe he got spoiled that way. hehe
Just to be clear, is blackshama saying that Chiz does or does not another FM? Put simply, has Chiz been a UP High School President?
To begin with, not every president we so far had is produced by UP High, is it? Maybe, only when it comes from UP, it must come from UP High.
There is a whole lot of ambiguity in what blackshama commented on.
OMG! So this si Chiz, Jeez.
A long time ago I talked to a Korean who was disccusing a good time for dawn prayer in the Philippines a certain time of year. I didn’t know the sunrise time, but he figured it out based on some information about latitude and the calendar time. I asked him how he figured that out, was he an astromer or such. No, he got this all from high school.
Knowledge is valuable not in its specific form, but as Knowledge in the abstract, a conceptual schema about the world, an idea about how science and mathematics and art and computers and the internet and the whole shebang, the glorious heritage of modern civilization work. People like Chiz, they totally don’t get it.
Hello! May I post this article of yours to my facebook account so that I can share it to my friends as well? This is a very interesting MUST READ. :D Thanks.
Maybe Chiz is not just the problem
There is more politics in education than on the emphasis on “learning”
Politics influences more the changes in our curriculum and educational system than “a well-grounded body of research”…How sad is that?
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Apparently Mr. Chiz Escudero was absent when Proof and Reasoning was discussed or it wasn’t discussed at all like our teachers do today.