Category: Education

Good Filipino Catholics agree: Mocha Uson deserves her UST award!

January 22, 2018January 22, 2018 benign0 4 Comments

People who are frothing in the mouth over the University of Santo Tomas’s (UST) Alumni Association awarding Assistant Secretary Mocha Uson distinction for government service should just get over it. “Awards” by institutions nowadays have long been under blanket suspicion anyway. Data generated by social media activity had taken over as more reliable indicators of…

Education, Religion

UP “activists” are wrong — the Lantern Parade is NOT an occasion for political activism

December 18, 2017December 18, 2017 benign0 2 Comments

Indeed, one’s gotta agree that “everything is political” as far as students of the University of the Philippines’ (UP) College of Social Sciences and Philosophy (CSSP) are concerned. So political, in fact, that they’d politicise everything — including the Lantern Parade. As expected, mainstream media picked up their float (above all else) which merited a…

Education, Politics

Florin Hilbay’s descent from Bar top-notcher to national laughingstock

November 25, 2017 Ilda 11 Comments

University of the Philippines law professor and former Solicitor General Florin Hilbay has become the butt of jokes on social media. While I don’t follow him because, for one, I am not a fan and two, he has already blocked me on Twitter, some of his posts still find their way onto my timeline. I…

Education, Politics

TIME Magazine is using Shibby de Guzman to influence Philippine politics

November 10, 2017 Ilda 10 Comments

If you want more evidence Western mainstream media is deliberately manipulating politics in the Philippines, take a look at TIME magazine’s latest list of the most influential teens around the world. The international publication included 14-year old Filipina Shibby de Guzman in the list. It is not clear how the editors arrived at the conclusion…

Education, Media, Politics

Can Catholic schools and their products ever be truly non-partisan?

October 25, 2017 benign0 5 Comments

I don’t think so — which is disturbing considering that three of the top four universitites in the Philippines are run by Catholic priests. Catholic priests, it should be highlighted here, have taken a vow of obedience, and at the very top of this hierarchy of obedience sits, guess who, none but the Catholic Bishops…

Education, Politics

How Jover Laurio (a.k.a. @PinoyAkoBlog) intellectually-bankrupted the Ateneo de Manila University

October 16, 2017 benign0 3 Comments

One would understand Yellowtards — even intelligent ones — getting behind “exposed” blogger Jover Laurio. She’s got an impressive list of connections to a who’s-who of Liberal Party (LP) honchos which, for people who are not much into thinking things through, is enough validation of her “credibility” as an “influencer”. Even people one would normally…

Education, Media

Recalling “Oeneta” – a play banned for being highly-critical of the Ateneo High School

October 14, 2017October 14, 2017 benign0 4 Comments

Alumni of Ateneo High School (AHS) Batch 1986 will remember the play “Oeneta” produced by Section A in the junior year of that class. It was highly-critical of the AHS and eventually went on to be banned by the school. Section A is the top honours section of every batch at the AHS and is…

Education, Glitz and Glamour, Society

Three common misconceptions about popularity that Filipinos have

October 6, 2017 FallenAngel 10 Comments

Filipinos like participating in numbers games. We’re not just talking about gambling, basketball, etc. The democracy that Filipinos are proud of, and like to participate in, is essentially a numbers game. Whoever has the most numbers wins. Numbers have become almost sort of a credential here in the Philippines. Of course, there is something reassuring…

Culture, Education, Society

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