A while back, The Jester in Exile issued out a call to revamp education system of the Philippines. When a call such as this is issued out, what usually separates the men from the boys (or the truly insightful from the Madcats ;) ) is the ability to actually come up with a proposal.

Interestingly enough, I happened to stumble upon this gem taken from a slideshow I built way back that aimed to give my site’s visitors an easy walkthru about what “getrealism” is all about:

Though the above was originally intended — true to my usual form — to illustrate in living colour the intricate structural elegance of the lattice of dysfunction that underpins our inability to prosper in the last 100 years, it also provides a brilliant roadmap for where our efforts to radically change the toilet fodder that our system of upbringing pumps into the minds of the Filipino Youth should be focused.

The following outlines the details behind the framework (which could also be found if the slideshow is followed). Note that each smiley corresponds to a slide.

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:D Filipinos lack RESOLVE.

Resolve emanates from a clear understanding of what is and what needs to be done.

Insight. Filipinos cannot grasp fundamental principles that underpin the ability to achieve most of their aspirations – freedom, democracy, and prosperity.

Foresight. Filipinos don’t anticipate. They react. They don’t lay the groundwork for the future. They’d rather hack their way through the jungle of what is to be.

Vision. Filipinos are not dreamers. They cannot see a place for the Philippines in the world order beyond its role as a resource pool for warm bodies.

:D Filipinos lack CONFIDENCE.

Confidence flows from recognising that one possesses the means to achieve.

Innovation. Filipinos will do the same thing again and again while continuously expecting different results. A perfect recipe for the no-results society we see today.

Enterprise. Filipinos cannot harvest the commercial value of the few great ideas they come up with. They have picked their low-hanging resources clean and are hopeless at capitalising on their remaining – but dwindling – natural assets.

Commitment. Filipinos are great at starting things but utterly lack follow-through. This trait is so well-recognised that it has been encapsulated in a well-known Tagalog phrase – ningas cogon.

:D Filipinos lack CONSISTENCY.

Consistency is exhibited when discipline and rigour is practiced.

Language. Filipinos are becoming less and less proficient at the only language that unites them – English. Tagalog has proven to be a victim of its own history and an intellectual dead-end.

Structure. The only kind of robust structure that characterises Filipino society is its rigid social class hierarchy and the omnipresent tyranny of Catholic dogma. Chaos is the Filipino’s comfort zone.

Quality. Pwede na yan (“that’ll do”) is the mantra of Filipino design undertaking. A lack of investment in systems thinking results in chronically inconsistent and unreliable results in most Filipino operations.

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And the bottom line is this:

Time is running out. Competition is way ahead and widening the gap. The Philippines is turning into a low-added-value human cesspool with every year that passes that sees another 2 million Filipinos added to humanity.

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