Category: Education

Intellectual Revolution: The Necessity of the Thinkers and the Revolutionary Minds

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Intellectual Revolution: The Necessity of the Thinkers and the Revolutionary Minds

This humble paper is an affirmative response to the lucid and scholarly essay of Ms. Natalie Shobana Ambrose’s “Empowering our thinkers”, The Sun Daily, July 12th. Though I overwhelmingly concur to her general proposition, I beg the indulgence of the reader that I may be allowed to adumbrate and elaborate on the various theses that…

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Civics, Education, Society

Local Similarities With The Taliban?

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    Nick Naylor: My job requires a certain… moral flexibility. From the film Thank You For Smoking (2005)     What were you doing on your 16th birthday? If you are as old as me maybe you were marveling at the recent implementation of indoor plumbing. Regardless of age I doubt you were addressing…

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Education, Government, Politics

P and F defect: Changing the official name from ‘Pilipinas’ to ‘Filipinas’

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P and F defect: Changing the official name from ‘Pilipinas’ to ‘Filipinas’

I’d think twice about changing the “official name” of the Philippines to “Filipinas”. Try doing an image search on the word “Filipinas” in Google and you will find what the term generally connotes. Not very flattering, to say the least. Certainly the results of that Google image search will not be consistent with the goals…

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Culture, Education, Lifestyle, Society

Drunken… Role Models?

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Drunken… Role Models?

Recently, a picture of certain Filipino historical figures was spread around on the Internet, to celebrate national hero Jose Rizal’s birthday. It shows Rizal apparently drunk and clowning around with Felix Resurreccion Hidalgo, Trinidad H. Pardo de Tavera and Juan Luna. I do know it was supposed to show the heroes’ human side, showing that…

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Culture, Education

Pugad Baboy lesbian jibe at St Scho prompts censorship by Inquirer management!

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Pugad Baboy lesbian jibe at St Scho prompts censorship by Inquirer management!

A Pugad Baboy strip that contained allusions to the purported lesbian scene in St Scholastica’s College, an exclusive all-girls-school in Manila, was pulled out of the Inquirer.net website. The “offending” strip which was published on an Inquirer.net page time-stamped the 4th June 2013 now displays a 404 Error message indicating that the page itself has…

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Education, Lifestyle, Media

Filipino voters should be blamed for the Philippines’ problems

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Filipino voters should be blamed for the Philippines’ problems

I don’t think there is a point in holding elections in the Philippines. It’s so expensive and the whole process just disrupts normal activities and keeps Filipinos from moving forward. What is the point in going through something that won’t even change or improve how things are being run in the country anyway? Before every…

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Education, Featured, Media, Politics, Society

Nick Joaquin’s A Heritage of Smallness

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Nick Joaquin’s A Heritage of Smallness

[Any major occasion in the Philippines is always a good time to re-visit this most seminal of Nick Joaquin’s works. It encapsulates the character of the Philippine Nation and remains relevant today as Filipinos continue in their efforts to attain the elusive greatness they nonetheless feel is their ultimate destiny. I humbly present, “A Heritage…

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Culture, Development, Education, Featured, Lifestyle, Society

Loren Legarda and communist candidates: All a politician really wants is to win the election

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Loren Legarda and communist candidates: All a politician really wants is to win the election

Election Day approaches. Question is So what? It’s a big deal only as far as the Media and a handful of ‘social media practitioners’ say it is. Other than that what is really at stake for the ordinary Pinoy schmoe? In support of one manok or another, some “experts” will warn the average voter to…

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Education, Politics, Society