Most certainly like clockwork, questions on how our education system works, broken school buildings, teacher salaries, and textbooks and questions on what language to use will come out. My question is this: are we thinking too shallow, too small?
Ciel and Pilar Habito talked about transforming Philippine Education: (Video Above)
The themes they discuss are similar to many posts on Filipino Voices like this one from Jon that comes to mind: real score between Filipinos and Entrepreneurship.
A few months back I also asked a question: Can the Future Be Designed? Maybe one thing we can all agree on, in my humble opinion is that “in this Age where the Everyman has such amazing power, and creativity, the latter is increasingly becoming more and more important.”
The Habitos also spoke that almost everything is online now. Why should kids drag heavy bags to school when everything is online? Let me digress a bit and point you to this particular google trends which was showed to me by one of the people i follow on twitter:
Villar vs. Legarda vs. Roxas vs. Lacson:
Does this mean anything to you? Villar and Roxas seem to be in indexed by Google a lot.
A few days ago, on my blog, I made a comment on a piece by Sam Knight of Financial Times who wrote about Marilyn vos Savant. Ms. Savant has a recorded IQ of 228. The part I could relate most was this:
There is only one question that seems the wrong thing to ask Savant, and that is what else she is supposed to have done with her life, with her glimmering brain. To ask it is to miss the point. I told her when we met that I had always imagined intelligence to be nothing more than a tool. On that foggy afternoon, before we said goodbye, she wanted to correct me. “I suppose it could be and it should be,” she said. “But it also seems to be an attribute or a quality or an aspect of one’s humanity that one need not use to get something that you want … It can just simply be part of you. And I think that’s fine too.”
I think there is wisdom in that too.
Oh, one more thing: many thanks to @miriel on plurk for pointing me to “Why Not? Forum“.
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Are WE (filipino society as a whole) thinking too shallow and too small?
HELL YEAH.
what is this forum? why does cielito habito seem to be selling abrieva? (whats abrieva)?
The Why Not Forum is kinda like TED. they have other videos on site. not as entertaining as ted though. still… it gives great insight. in case you missed the link at the bottom of the post… here: http://www.whynotforum.com/
natawa ako sa product placement ng smart… hahahaha… go smart mobile internet!
Cocoy, we cannot transform Filipinos thru education. Filipinos in America are proud to swarm UCLA with Filipinos. After they graduated they're never heard of again. Whatabout FBI-Academy-Trained-PMA that invistigated Failon? What about other FBI-Academy-trained-PMA invistigation what has come out of it? Filipinos can be educated but cannot learn and apply what they have been educated.
Education on piles up the arrogance of non-accomplishing Filipino UCLA graduates. Piles of diplomas, nothing doing …
Maybe you are referring to FilAms! You are talking about UCLA alums here. I read this as "You cannot transform Filipino-Americans through education.
Think about our invistigadores senatoriales, foreign-e;ducated-ivy-graduate, totally bungled ZTE invistigation. Watabawt FBI-Academy-trainedPMA Superentindents. What have they learned? They were educated but nothing learned. MERALCO bribery invistigation? Nothing. Glorieta Bombing invistigation? Nothing … IT SEEMS WE CANNOT LEARN.
Fil-Ams has the same genes as I do … only thing is they speakengese goot country-club irish accented englischtzes
They showed what they had learned on the Failon's case. They are Boneheads who went to Police
Academies or PMA. They graduated, were employed and do not know what they are doing.
We are educating Filipinos who will work in foreign countries as Domestic Servants. Something wrong on
our educational system. If we can educate people to help solve the country's problems. We would have
an educational system that is on target. But as of now, we are educating people who will serve other countries.
Our country educate people to go abroad to study then come back serve the government to line their pockets not people's pockets.
Lav ya Pilifinas, you never stopped to amaze me … lav ya … our country is so entertaining …
We already have lots of people who can help solve the country's problems – problem is AMBABARAT NG BAYAD. you can't send your kids to good schools or prepare for retirement with measly substandard wages.
the talent will seek where it feels it is justly compensated, if the nation values the talent – COUGH UP THE VALUE. otherwise, tier 1 talent will go overseas and the domestic economy will have to put up with Tier 2 talent or.. "latak".
FV ought to print broadsheet as 5th estate. Our goal is to pick thru the trashes of 4th estate publications and give people the real deal.
Filipinos really can't follow through with long term investments like education. The ningas-cogon syndrome still is true.
Filipinos also cannot follow thru or pass on their wealth to next generation … Filipino family is only wealthy once. Their children squanders it.
Unlike Espanyoles and the intsiks, they pass their wealth from children to grand children to ….
Filipinos also cannot follow thru or pass on their wealth to next generation … Filipino family is only wealthy once. Their children squanders it.
Unlike Espanyoles and the intsiks, they pass their wealth from children to grand children to ….
Ningas Congon is a unique Filipino trait. We all have it. It is in our genes…Fumigate your genes.
No it is not. I would assert that ningas-cogon is a bandwagon trait.
When the bandwagon procastinates, Pinoys procastinate.
When the bandwagon is on time, Pinoys are on time (specially for those who are on the clock in the US, the more hours you have, the more money you make, timeliness has its rewards – no tardiness can earn you a day off, and if done consistently, you can win a paid cruise to Alaska or the Caribbean.. or at the very least, keep your job).
They have already stolen the "Value". The Politicians and Leaders who enriched themselves in office…
We prefer a no estate anme…or Blog Posters' Estate…Opportunists of all kinds in our country do not know how to
deal with it, or to neutralize and stop it…
Education is a lifetime career. You educate yourself in life. It is the best education that I have ever known.
Not UCLAs, MITs, Princeton Univs., Yales, Harvards, UPs, etc… Life itself is an education…
True, relative to the five senses, of course, the experience of the physical world is education itself. That is, if you wish to learn how to deal with the “system” you suppose to be “real” (which we further complicated with our artificial subsystems). But most of the time, the things we really need to know is already embedded in us…we just got so distracted (or was selectively reprogrammed externally) that we find it difficult to call our internal libraries of information.
Hey, confused go back to Planet Mars…wil you…
so whats abrieva? (is this spelling right?)
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Cocoy, let's take a look at Philiphinos in America. Philiphinos is the 2nd most in numbers in Asian community in Los Angeles, California. Within 3 mile radius there are 7 Los Angeles Public Libraries and County Library. You can never find a Philiphino in the library. You can only find Mexicaneses, Koreaness, whites, blacks, tramps, homeless, retards … BUT NO pHILIPHINOS! Why? I DON'T KNOW … You are in America find out why!
this video is a mind opener for me.. so there's already people who have started on focusing on value education as an integral part of learning for students in the Philippines, and they recognize multiple intelligences as well. At least these are really few of the main proofs that the educational system in the Philippines should be changed from the conventional passive approach where students are graded based on their (overly-traditional) academic achievements to a more constructive approach, like the lady said, you can only teach someone if you know how that person learns, which is more productive and it yields to a more meaningful learning experience for our kids than say us :D
I'm really glad that they're on the right track on this one… Of course this needs a lot of work but this transition seems to be the very thing to push the Filipino community to flourish.
Looks like not in my lifetime, but it's a good step toward a progressive direction provided the bureaucrats don't pocket the money intended for education
PHILIPPINE MODERN EDUCATION IS AN EXTERNAL FORCE:
Had America not annexed the Philippines, our country will follow the pattern of Spanish-colonized countries and would plunge into A PROLONGED CIVIL WAR. Mexico (who administered the Philippines for 256 years) plunged into a series of civil wars that lasted more than 120 years (1810 to 1930's).
The outdated MEDIEVAL SUPERPOWER SPAIN and her children needed reforms and MODERN EDUCATION so that the people can get income/ buying power from being educated.
US GAVE MODERN EDUCATION TO FILIPINOS, but since it is an EXTERNAL FORCE, the SECRETS of education are not known to us. It's like INHERITED wealth versus CREATED wealth. The secrets of how the wealth was made is unknown pag mana.
You should read the over 40 pages of report of Messrs. Sargent and Wilcox, two navy men from Admiral Dewey's squadron, who toured northern Luzon and observed the life of the Filipinos under the new regime of president Emilio Aguinaldo, a few days before war was commenced by the American military in Feb. 4, 1899. The report said in part: "As a tribute to the efficiency of Aguinaldo's government and to the law-abiding character of his subjects, I offer the fact that Mr. Wilcox and I pursued our journey throughout in perfect security, and returned to Manila with only the most pleasant recollections of the quiet and orderly life which we found the natives to be leading under the new regime."
Also, read my blog: McKinley's Imperialist Policy . An American officer describes the machinery of the Aguinaldo government after Santa Ana, a town near Manila was overran on the second day of the Philippine-American war by advancing American troops. Perhaps, the better question to ponder is: why did the U.S. annexed the Philippines?
Inculcating patriotism in schools and commerating the exploits of our heroes and significant historical events are sorely wanting. I was a recent visitor at Fort Teconderoga in Upper New York state and I could feel the strong sense of nationalism of the American people in keeping alive the spirit of their ancestors' struggle for independence from the British. See my blog Why Filipinos are not a patriotic people
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Humor is all around us. Comedians, all.
Need of teachers. Need of higher pay to snare excellent teachers. Less paperworks. Automation of students grading and records. Cut down students/teachers ratio. = good education.
Your website article needs views from other fields of study or a WORLD VIEW. The MASSIVE CIVIL WARS in Latin America is a result of the OUTDATED MEDIEVAL SUPERPOWER SPAIN.
Why AGUINALDO HAD ANTONIO LUNA and ANDRES BONIFACIO KILLED is similar to the Civil Wars of Latin America. THE ELITE CLASS VERSUS THE MASSES ( examples: Mexico—Porfirio Diaz versus Madero, Pancho Villa, Zapata. ).
Another important field of study is the HERITAGE OF PHILOSOPHIES & ETHICS running GOVERNMENT, COMMERCE, & INDUSTRIES.
Spaniards are outdated. THE MALAY NATIVE PHILOSOPHIES & ETHICS HERITAGE in Commerce, Industries, Government are not developed enough to run a nation. (Example: JAPAN-BUDDHIST-CONFUCIAN DETERMINATION & SUFFERING is vital to the RISE OF INDUSTRIES & GIVE JOBS.)
You remember the incompetence to maintain CDCP, PNR, NAWASA, MMTC, etc. It's a trait of the natives called NINGAS-KUGON. Do you want to run a nation with that?