Category: Education

Are business schools failing to produce business leaders?

June 7, 2012 benign0 7 Comments

The Fortune article “MBAs gone wild: Have B-schoolers gone too far?â€, highlighted how a cultural flaw that afflicts Wall Street and many high-powered business cliques and corporate communities has come to infect business schools… “The problem of the ‘male adolescent culture’ at business schools is widespread,” says one prominent business school professor who preferred not…

Culture, Education, Money Talks

The Emergence of BaSta Aquino

June 5, 2012June 5, 2012 Gogs 58 Comments

“You who are on the road Must have a code that you can live by And so become yourself Because the past is just a good bye. “Teach your children well, Their father’s hell did slowly go by, And feed them on your dreams The one they picked, the one you’ll know by.” Crosby Stills…

Culture, Education, Government, Politics, Society

Lady Gaga ‘Born This Way’ concert banned in Indonesia

May 16, 2012 benign0 7 Comments

Islamic militants had managed to strike again, this time in Indonesia denying 50,000 fans the chance to see their favourite pop mega-star. Indonesia’s national police had denied a permit for Lady Gaga to perform in Jakarta after that city’s police had expressed concerns that it would not be able to guarantee security for the sold-out…

Education, Glitz and Glamour, Religion

Thrilla in NAIA: was the Tulfo-Raymart-Claudine brawl really all about inadequate airport security?

May 9, 2012 benign0 17 Comments

It is quite ironic that in a police state such as the Philippines where around every corner and at every doorway, armed security forces stand ready to fire high-powered shotguns and assault rifles at any suspicious-looking loser, one or the other politician is now weighing in with their opinion of how slack security had recently…

Culture, Education, Lifestyle, Media, Society

Raymart, Claudine, Tulfo in excellent airport brawl

May 7, 2012May 7, 2012 benign0 65 Comments

Bad breeding is at the heart of most issues that plague Philippine society and its culture of dysfunction. It is endemic at the macro level and ingrained at the micro levels — at the very threads that are woven into the very fabric of the national soul. This is evident in the manner with which…

Education, Glitz and Glamour, Lifestyle, Media

Did Catholic school STC Cebu fail to teach Christian values to the bikini girls?

May 4, 2012October 24, 2014 Ilda 24 Comments

Everyone makes mistakes. Most of us learn from them, become better persons as a result, and then move on. As the saying goes, “Good judgment comes from bad experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment”. In fact, we’ll make more mistakes than we can ever remember and in between being born and…

Culture, Education, Religion, Society

STC Cebu and the bikini girls – a laughably pointless situation comedy

May 3, 2012October 24, 2014 benign0 55 Comments

In a country where the “word” and “will” of the Roman Catholic God are popular buzzwords and points of deference that transcend profession and social and economic class, it has always been one of modern societies’ biggest ironies that gigantic billboards exhibiting scantily clad models pitching skin whiteners, body sprays colognes, and mobile devices stand…

Culture, Education, Religion

English proficiency is a continuous improvement process

April 27, 2012November 24, 2013 FallenAngel 37 Comments

Filipinos are generally good at English. At least that’s the impression foreigners get when they encounter us. It is also one of the primary reasons why foreign employers like hiring Filipinos. It is well-established that English has made its way into the world as a sort of lingua franca, and we wield it as an…

Culture, Development, Education, Society