Is it really what grade you get, or how much you learned? Ideally, eaducation is about learning. In reality, it is about passing grades and making it to the next level–despite what one learns and what one doesn’t.
Education Secretary Edilberto de Jesus rescinded an earlier order fixing the passing mark for pupils at 75 [...]
From The Manila Times:
About three women are reportedly being raped each day last year, according to statistics released by the Philippine National Police on Friday.
The record shows a 5-percent increase in rape cases in 2003, or 1,117 incidents compared to the 1,063 cases reported in 2002.
Lest the public starts getting the impression that crime rates [...]
Gloria Arroyo, in deference to the will of the Catholic Church, has adopted a government policy that encourages natural, not artificial, birth control. This is a sore issue with me, really. But, perhaps, not sore enough to prevent me from mulling over the subject still.
Just what is the big objection to artificial birth control [...]
So many bloggers are reacting harshly about a New York Times opinion entitled The Power of Marriage (registration required) which reads in part :
Anybody who has several sexual partners in a year is committing spiritual suicide. He or she is ripping the veil from all that is private and delicate in oneself, and pulverizing it [...]
“A diamond is forever.”
That’s the De Beers slogan as well as the title of a James Bond movie.
Think engagement and the picture of a diamong solitaire comes to mind. Think wedding and the picture is replaced with that of a diamond-studded wedding band. Think 10th, 15th or 25th wedding anniversary and an eternity ring dazzles [...]
There was this story once that a doctor in a remote rural area in the Philippines who demonstrated the use of a condom by inserting his finger in it was shocked when, months later, one of the husbands complained that despite the use of condoms his wife was pregnant again. When asked how exactly he [...]
Two days ago, my kids brought home their test papers from the first quarter exams. I was happily browsing through them when I came upon a correction made by the teacher on my 11-year-old’s essay. My daughter wrote in her Home Economics essay:
During the first grading period, we learned how to take our bath properly. [...]
The billiards fever is on in the Philippines. Toothless Filipino world champion Efren Reyes had a good start, winning his two games on the first day.
Reyes is one of those few who managed to rise from the slums and become a multi-millionaire via his exceptional skill at playing billiards. He now makes more money [...]
A Filipino engineer working in Qatar who read the my post on my daughter’s school sent a reaction via e-mail. The following is a translation:”Thank you for the the article… The parents in that article are not alone in their anger and frustration over the educational system in the Philippines. Until now, the schools’ [...]
You can buy a small cosmos plant at around PhP 10.00 per. You don’t need to buy more than a few since they propagate fast. The seeds from a mature plant falls to the ground with the slightest gush of wind and a new cosmos plant grows. These yellow and orange cosmos were growing wild [...]
