Category: Education

Should Filipino thought leaders communicate in ‘maka-masa’ style or in proper English?

July 9, 2018 benign0 30 Comments

What is the goal of the Philippines’ elite communicators and thought leaders? We are told many times by the Philippines’ so-called “social media experts” that there is a huge responsibility on our shoulders to produce and publish high-quality content that could help uplift the Philipines’ public discourse. The quality of this discourse is important because…

Culture, Education, Media

Mathematical proof that the Ateneo “AMDG” slogan contributes ZERO to God’s glory

June 29, 2018 benign0 13 Comments

In school, most Ateneans will have acquired the habit of writing the acronym “AMDG” at the top of their exam papers or any important schoolwork and then affixing a cross on top of it. AMDG stands for Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam, Latin for the presumptuous phrase “for the greater glory of God”. This practice has…

Education, Religion, Tech Talk

How the Ateneo plays Yellowtard “activist” to cover up its own “dark” past of support for the Marcos “regime”

May 26, 2018September 22, 2018 benign0 19 Comments

Manila Times columnist Yen Makabenta today wrote a scathing article about his alma mater, the Ateneo de Manila University which today stands out amongst the elite Catholic private schools as a bastion of campus Yellowtardism. In What is more toxic than a crony? A crony school?, Makabenta laments how on the current “debate” over the recent ouster…

Education, Politics

Should expensive private schools like the Ateneo de Manila and De La Salle be banned?

May 23, 2018 benign0 16 Comments

A report on the work needed to reform Malaysian state services now that a peaceful change of leadership had transpired provides some insight on the growing private school industry in southeast Asia. For the average outsider, the reliance of a society’s elite on private schools to educate their youth is regarded to be not normal… There is also…

Education, Society

Ph employers hire college grads for work that requires only hi-school grads just because they can

April 19, 2018 benign0 8 Comments

That was the promise back when end-to-end primary and secondary education became a 12-year course for Filipinos. Under that set-up, it was expected that graduates of Year 12 would be ready for the workforce. Indeed, there are many types of work out there, many of them high-paying white collar-work, that the average high school graduate…

Education

Lost in Subject-Verb Agreement: Should Filipinos go back to Grammar School?

April 6, 2018 zaxx 19 Comments

One of the most rudimentary rules of grammar is matching the right verb with its subject. But it seems to be so convoluted and complex due to the sheer number of choices one has to consider: TWO… either singular or plural. Filipinos simply find having to weigh between those two choices as too confusing that…

Culture, Education

The Philippines’ Roman Catholic Church should be taxed and its books opened to public scrutiny

April 3, 2018 benign0 14 Comments

Consider the vastness of the money-making machine that the Philippine Roman Catholic Church is. None of its activities including those that are financially profitable are currently taxed by the Philippine government. Catholic education alone, for example, is an expensive premium service that even the wealthiest of Filipinos clamber over one another to partake of. Yet…

Education, Media, Money Talks, Religion

The UP Shopping Center would be missed, but not THAT much…

March 9, 2018 benign0 2 Comments

Sad that the UP Shopping Center (SC) burnt to the ground. The thing I really remember the most about the UPSC is that it was an old and rather stuffy place. I was only there when I had to have a haircut (almost always on a Sunday and, whenever possible, with the guy partially-disabled by…

Education, Lifestyle