Reuters - School is out for Filipino children this summer and a large proportion of them won't be coming back.
Reuters - School is out for Filipino children this summer and a large proportion of them won't be coming back.
***Any educator who has remaining dignity to be called a Filipino teacher should be disturbed and do something about this. I know it's not something new. Simply, it is just a re-statement of the brutal facts of Philippine education. But it gets to the nerves once you see it in Most Recommended in Yahoo. Who wrote it? Not even a Filipino. It seems Filipinos are too tired and helpless to look at the facts of education in the Philippines.
We were not educated in the best schools just to keep our mouths shut. We know the plight of education. We studied it. We heard it being spoken on education circles, by our comrades in the fields. But we simply shrug our shoulders because we know that we are weak and helpless to do anything.
I know we are weak and so few. But on the wings of one small bird, hope will flap its way towards past glories - when we were revered as the beacon of literacy and shining light of intellectual pride in Asia.
There is hope in education. And Education is the way out of poverty.
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