Tag: youth

An entire generation of young Filipinos are growing up to be liabilities

June 29, 2024 benign0 7 Comments

Certain “activists” take exception to a country’s people being referred to as “capital” to “invest in” in order to “get returns from”. This is in reference to the recently-published World Bank Philippines Human Capital Review report where some pretty damning facts about the collective ability of the Filipino people to compete in a rapidly-evolving world…

Development, Education

Opposition still using obsolete “good” versus “evil” rhetoric as a lazy alternative to a real campaign platform

September 2, 2021 Ramon Ortoll 2 Comments

PhilSTAR columnist Boo Chanco seems to be losing faith in the youth. But the surveys he cited in his piece today “Faith in democracy” were done abroad, mostly in Europe. It doesn’t automatically apply to Filipinos in the same age group he cites… The Center for the Future of Democracy at the University of Cambridge…

Politics

The COVID pandemic will not end any time soon. Time to learn a bit of mental toughness!

August 9, 2021 Ramon Ortoll 3 Comments

The 21-45 demographic is 40M strong. These are the millennials who will be our future leaders and captains of industry. But with all their whining and ranting on social media, the future looks bleak. We’re seeing a breakdown in education, not only in the public school system but also in private educational institutions. Credentialism has…

Society

Pandemic impact on today’s youth demands making education a top election issue

July 28, 2021 Ramon Ortoll 1 Comment

How to integrate pedagogy with technology was the challenge we faced during my short stint at a local city university from 2019-2020. Even before the pandemic, the education sector was being disrupted by Education 4.0, as a response to Industry 4.0, or the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Public and private educational institutions have been facing challenges…

Education

“Ok snowflake” rhymes better than “Ok boomer”

November 9, 2019 benign0 9 Comments

Anybody who’s been on Twitter a lot over the last several days will now have seen the latest fashionable catchphrase “Ok boomer” really taking off. The term “boomer” is short for “Baby Boomer”, a term used to refer to the generation of Americans born within the decade right after World War II ended. It has…

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

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

To CONQUER their future, Filipinos need to forget the past and get over Martial Law Butthurt

September 21, 2017September 21, 2017 benign0 19 Comments

Martial Law crybabies like emphasizing the past. They lament the lack of “accurate” education on the “Martial Law era” and rally around slogans like “Never Forget” and “Never Again”. To be fair, memory of hurt is important so that lessons are learnt. If we don’t remember being burnt we won’t know enough to avoid fires….

Culture, Politics, Society