Category: Education

The State of Education Today: A Discourse on the Destruction of Creativity

April 30, 2013April 30, 2013 Jose Mario de Vega 3 Comments

Weâ€™ve bought into the idea that education is about training and â€œsuccessâ€, defined monetarily rather than learning to think critically and to challenge. We should not forget that the true purpose of education is to make minds, not careers. A culture that does not grasp the vital interplay between morality and power, which mistakes management…

Education

Criminality is the sign of society’s moral decadence, social poverty and economic inequality

April 25, 2013 Jose Mario de Vega 9 Comments

It has been quite some time now that the prevailing issues, hot topics and shocking headlines of our newspapers and the dominant talk of the town is the apparent and seeming rise of criminal statistics and the rampant commission of various crimes, specifically those of economic in nature and background. The root causes of crime…

Civics, Crime, Education, Society

Do Filipinos understand what debates are really all about?

April 25, 2013July 25, 2013 FallenAngel 16 Comments

It seems Nancy Binay has recently become the subject of a few satirical articles. The focus of such satire is her apparent aversion towards participation in any kind of political debate during the election campaign. Court grants Nancy Binay’s Temporary Protection Order (TPO) petition against debates Nancy Binay reveals childhood trauma: “Papa forced me to…

Civics, Culture, Education, Government, Media, Politics

Higher education for poor Filipinos: Two Cents from a ‘Filipino Traitor’

April 22, 2013December 17, 2016 Hector Gamboa 52 Comments

My last article got me accused of being too anti-Filipino for my stand against giving poor Filipinos the opportunity to get a university degree. I was told that to deny the poor Filipinos the same opportunity that I had, to get to where I am in life right now, is not only cruel but also…

Education

Education Freebies for the Poor? What the Fudge?!

April 2, 2013December 17, 2016 Hector Gamboa 86 Comments

First of all I would like to request my readers to look at this funny video below from the show Bubble Gang. Funny, huh? But let’s think about a certain angle for a moment. Suppose that you are a student in a public school and you (or your parents) saved enough money to pay for…

Education, Government

Kristel and the UP Dream

March 26, 2013 Jose Mario de Vega 2 Comments

This paper is a continuation of my article, “Self-Destruction: The Question of Suicide and the Tendency to Harm Oneself” (GetRealPhilippines.COM and Blog Watch Citizen Media, March 19 and the Human Rights Online Philippines, March 22). Last Wednesday, a freshman student from the University of the Philippines-Manila ended her life, two days after â€œshe was forced…

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Civics, Education, Society

Virtue and Wisdom are the True Aims of Education

March 25, 2013 Jose Mario de Vega 4 Comments

There is a grain of truth to our present malady namely, that our educational system has failed us! The answer must be “yes” and this modern day education system has in fact, failed the whole world. The world has built many colleges and universities, yet we have no peace because what we consider education is…

Education