A new synergy for our children’s future

The best news that the country received with guarded optimism for 2008 so far was the decision of President Gloria Arroyo to create the Presidential Task Force on Education (PTFE), specifically to draw up a “coherent master plan” for the improvement of education in the country.

For too long, public education sector on one hand, has been known for nothing more than the source of unabated corruption among its top officials and unmitigated exploitation of lowly-paid teachers, while the private sector, on the other hand, has been tagged as nothing but unscrupulous profiteering business establishments whose primary goal is to maximize its profits.

Hopefully, the President’s instructions to the task force to make “quality education accessible to all,” would finally be taken to heart not only by all government agencies concerned but by all stakeholders in both public and private sectors.

Unknown to many perhaps, this new and unexpected thrust in the Arroyo government was a result of the “frank and candid” assessment and discussion on the recommendation of the tertiary school heads led by Atty. Gonzalo T. Duque, president of the Philippine Association of Colleges and Universities.

As Atty. Duque correctly pointed out, the reason why the performance of the education sector in the country remains in the doldrums is because education policies and strategies were always decided solely by politically appointed officials. The stakeholders in the private sector were never involved.

Well, now comes the opportunity to drastically remodel and reshape the education sector. At the national “education congress” to be held this month, we hope that the stakeholders will finally show their mettle, that they can collaborate and greatly contribute to the attainment of superior education of the country’s young, minus excessive profit as its priority goal.

To achieve the desired synergy, our province’s public and private school officials can exemplify the desired partnership between and among them. It was their idea, after all.

It’s time we retool and remold our young with quality education if we want to see this country rise from its shameful level of incompetence wrapped up in its new culture of corruption. 

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