Category: Education

Only criminals and terrorists benefited from the UP-DND military ban agreement

January 19, 2021 benign0 11 Comments

What makes students of the University of the Philippines so special that they get to study in an exclusive sanctuary against state security forces that no other student bodies in the Philippines enjoy? The fact is, all Filipino students and all jurisdictions that are subject to Philippine law already protected by the Bill of Rights…

Crime, Education

Kiko Pangilinan’s call: “Don’t mess with UP” — communists are EXEMPTED from this of course

January 19, 2021 benign0 3 Comments

Do the communists speak for the majority of members of the University of the Philippines (UP) student body? Do they represent the voice of the average Filipino student who only wants to pursue her studies in peace and in safety? This is the question Filipinos need to ask seeing that rhetoric that aims to create…

Crime, Education

Agreement banning Philippine military from UP campus finally TERMINATED!

January 19, 2021 benign0 13 Comments

Finally the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) will be able to do its job rooting out the scourge of communist terrorism at one of its key sources of recruitment — the University of the Philippines (UP). This development was shared in a tweet issued by the campus newspaper of the UP, the Philippine Collegian…

Crime, Education

Rowena Guanzon should be reprimanded for demeaning non-UP/Ateneo lawyers

April 26, 2020April 28, 2020 benign0 20 Comments

Commission on Elections (COMELEC) Commisioner Rowena Guanzon did an appalling disservice to her profession when she issued a challenge that prejudices against lawyers who are not graduates of the University of the Philippines and Ateneo law schools. Evidently hounded by Netizens scrutinising her points of view, Guanzon issued a challenge to a debate to any…

Education

Do Filipino parents really want their kids participating in campus “activism”?

February 17, 2020 benign0 16 Comments

There really is something fundamentally wrong with the way Filipino kids are being educated. We are made to believe, for example, that campus “activism” represents the pinnacle of student life, to the extent that medals are hung on students who express their “dissent” by walking out of class and participating in street rallies. Challenged as…

Education, Politics

Shocking PISA bottom ranking a wake up call for Filipinos to uplift education

December 8, 2019 benign0 19 Comments

What is truly shocking about the bottom ranking of the Philippines in the recently-published Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) report is that Filipinos are shocked to begin with. It is hardly surprising that Filipinos scored dismally in key areas of basic education given that Philippine society has long been known as one that does…

Culture, Education

Real Ateneans don’t wear blue

November 23, 2019November 23, 2019 benign0 4 Comments

As an alumnus of the Ateneo, I can’t help but wonder about what’s really going on in the heads of the members of what is arguably the most elite academic community in the Philippines. Indeed, the Ateneo is so elite that even Ateneans aspire to de-elitisize themselves as soon as they step out of its…

Education, Society

The word “charot” reflects Philippine society’s cowardly COP-OUT culture

October 21, 2019October 21, 2019 benign0 4 Comments

Why say something if you don’t intend to mean it? That, in essence, is the dishonest underpinnings of Charot Culture. The word charot in normalspeak is “joke only”. Filipinos who say something tongue-in-cheek, sarcastically, or to convey a sense of irony often have to resort to appending their statement with either one or even both…

Culture, Education