A CASE CAN BE MADE against certain private religious schools — namely the biggest, most lucrative and most prestigious ones — for exercising a little-noticed form of mental child abuse. Both in the manner and content of instruction, I assert that early childhood education by organized Religions is a form of brainwashing against helpless children [...]
The Inquirer’s Calipjo-Go postmortem: A letter to Mr Go
December 6, 2008 By 97 Comments
Dear Mr Calipjo-Go I say “Well done Mr Antonio Calipjo-Go”! The Philippine Daily Inquirer has felt that a whole editorial on your “demise” is needed. Since I am an educator myself, I have seen and read how bad the textbook situation is. But the PDI respectfully called the Innuendo by our Dear DJB doesn’t provide [...]
The pit of our own making
December 3, 2008 By 11 Comments
I first read about the story of textbook crusader Antonio Calipjo-Go when I was a PhD candidate in Australia, Apprently he had made an advocacy of detecting errors in basic education textbooks. I never saw anything wrong with that. All writers make errors textbook writers not excepted. That’s why publishing houses hire editors of all [...]
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