Editorial
Nightmarish education
WHETHER our educators today like it or not, the embarrassing results of the 2018 Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) that placed Filipinos ranking among the lowest in the world in the company of Dominican Republic, Kosovo and Lebanon should kick them in the butt.
Those results created a stigma not only our students as being intellectually inferior but on our teachers as being incompetent, and our education policies as misguided with wrong priorities.
If this won’t be viewed as a wake up call that should rouse our educators from the lull that led to lack of commitment over the last 3 decades to make a generation of Filipinos with high proficiency in reading and comprehension in English, math and science, then our next generation of graduates will be a class of its own in the cellar.
It is imperative that a period of introspection among our teachers and school officials both in public and private institutions in Pangasinan be called to determine what new approach can be adopted in the province to ensure the quality of education of our high school graduates in spite of the faulty national policies of government in education.
The school superintendents must seek to organize the thoughts of stakeholders, mainly the present crop of teachers and from the baby boomers’ generation, to determine what went wrong along the way.
3 Ds plus P1B
EVERY winning athlete has to have the 3 Ds. Discipline. Dedication. Determination. You have discipline when you arrive 30 minutes before the start of practice every single day of the year. Kawhi Leonard became the NBA’s No. 1 player last year by practicing 365 straight days a year beginning 5 a.m., come heat wave or snowstorm. You have dedication when you give your whole life to your sport, never abandoning it in favor of a birthday party or even your parents’ wedding anniversary bash. You have determination when there’s nothing in your mind but the drive to achieve your ultimate goal: success.
With the government shelling out P1 billion last year to finance our athletes’ training, wonder no more why we are on way to capturing the 30th SEA Games’ overall championship by December 11. 3 Ds plus money equals victory. Only a major disaster now will stop us from duplicating our 2005 victory.
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