Sideways
How to solve our textbook problems and give every Filipino a better education
Every start of the school year, our adviser hands out textbooks for the entire class. She would call our names one by one and instruct us to pick a number of books from a pile. Since we were always called alphabetically and my surname starts with M, I keep an anxious look at the diminishing […]
Larry Lessig on how creativity is being strangled by the law
As always, a very rich and convincing presentation from Larry Lessig.
Do schools kill creativity?
When my wife visited a college friend’s home, she saw several framed paintings on the wall. It was drawn by her friend when she was still a kid. My wife was surprised because no one in their group knew their friend can paint. When asked to do another painting for them, her friend simply said […]
More kids dropping out of school
According to statistics I got from the Department of Education, in school year 2002-2003 there are 12 million students enrolled in public elementary schools but only 4.8 million in public secondary schools. What happened to the 7.2 million young students?
The recent report from ADB also tells us a very sad story. Our net enrollment deteriorated […]
