Lessons from UA&P: Redefining the meaning of education
Posted by Project ISKO. Helping scholars help others. at 8:36 PM
Studying in UA&P is life changing! You'll experience a lot of paradigm shift, challenging and altering your worldview. A required reading in Philippine Society class caused my perception of education to change.
Article:
Article:
The Social Context of Philippine Education
By Randolf S. David
Dependency Series No. 43
June 1982
3 Things about Philippine Education
(Some of my realizations on education based on the article)
1. Many colleges are becoming diploma mills.
By Randolf S. David
Dependency Series No. 43
June 1982
3 Things about Philippine Education
(Some of my realizations on education based on the article)
1. Many colleges are becoming diploma mills.
- “…The Philippine educational system as a whole has mostly been the object of virulent criticism and mocking depreciation. It has been painted ludicrously as one huge diploma factory, a cottage industry where certificates for all occasions are produced as if they were Marikina shoes, a sort of enterprise which Filipinos have inventively put up because they are not much good in making money through the usual productive activities.”
- Making education a profitable business is on the rise. This is true. There are many schools out there that do not provide real education, real learning but are merely concern with money making.
- For many students, they just want to finish any course and get their diploma. One thing I can say is that, lucky are those who has passion, it gives them drive and happiness. So… seek and chase your passion! Choose a course you are zealously interested in.
2. Wealth is not education’s primary function.
- “The tragedy is rather that we, as people have assigned to education certain functions that do not properly belong to it. In other words, our people have come to expect of education miracles that it cannot deliver. We expect education, for instance to produce economic development. Yet it has never been shown in the experience of any country that increments in educational expenditures or educational levels lead to more development.”
- “…propaganda about education being the gateway to financial success and the almighty diploma being the passport to economic mobility.”
3. We should trash this common perception “Kaya sila mahirap, kasi di sila nagtapos ng pag-aaral.”
- “Many families have remained poor not because the parents or the children did not get a chance to get higher education. It is most likely that their poverty has blocked any access to higher education… Indeed, the rich tend to be better educated, but their wealth was not a result of their better education. Their wealth rather allowed them to send their children to better, more expensive schools, to get them special tutors, to buy them books and other materials, to let them travel; etc…”
Let us promote real education and support isko. Remember education is a right, not a privilege.
I hope this article of gives you something to think about. These realizations for me are both enlightening and haunting.
* Those inside the quotation marks are direct phrases or sentences lifted from Randolf David’s article.
by Check Odulio :)
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second bottomline: let us enjoy education. the second is just so damn hard. haha.
It represents the knowledge, intelligence, the SKILL a person has acquired in his four to five years of studying a specific field.
Without that information, your diploma/ degree is as good as nothing. Diploma mills are a sad reality in the Philippines and this is also true in different countries in the world.