I aim to decentralize important concepts into the Filipino National Paradigm. With the prevailing use of English rather than Filipino and native languages, it can be said that the Philippines is slowly killing the languages preserved over centuries of foreign assimilation.
The long lost gender perspective before mainstream western LGBT became a thing is gaining alot of attention from several progressive groups. Christianity has now produced several cults that are detrimental to the political climate, but also experienced a rise of atheism and belief restructuring to accommodate modern perspectives.
The growing poverty as well as the awakening of class consciousness empowered more socialist agendas to push back against the cyclical powerplay of political dynasties.
However, the goal is far from being attained as liberal inaction allows the capitalists to maintain the status quo. The liberals have an incredible large base, but so does the MLM groups. Anarchism has yet to grow in numbers.
I came from a forestry course and this is the best thing that has happened to me. The forestry course that I took made me very political, especially when I took the Bachelor degree during my first years. Almost all subjects are keen on the practice of the profession, but even then, several subjects need to be political as they are detrimental to understanding my desired quality of life as with the others that I deeply care about... of course, to better understand the course subject.
But what radicalized me the most is my discovery of the system of Philosophy. Philosophy itself is what pushed me to reject the broken culture invisible to the common man such as the “kupal culture”, “rape culture”, and “fascism”. My attraction towards enlightenment eventually led me to study anarchism.
This to me, is a very special point where I could no longer return to accepting the ordinary because I, myself, have been enjoying these ideas as if I was not alone anymore with my thoughts. In this, I would like to develop an experimental case on education to uplift the poverty in thinking.
Traditional teaching can work with young people aged from 3-6 years. However, with the recent development of the K-12, it may be wishful thinking to even think that succeeding ages would absorb abstract concepts and expect them to excel in all of these subjects. Anarchists have been proposing a better style of education where the teachers themselves act as facilitators rather than as authorities guarding the sacredness of absolute knowledge.
However effective this may be, it is simply a letdown to even think of this as the sole practical approach. Engagement in learning can start with discussions of epistemology and fundamentals.
For instance, Mathematics, to where I came from is described as prophetic rather than logical, and that I observed as it attracted the most religious of the teachers. What I found out is that it actually requires the rigorous exercise of logic, reality questioning, and language adaptation so that it can rationalize the abstract.
In terms of language and social studies, it requires demonstration and emotional/stimulus provocation. The teaching of grammar is indeed specific and strict due to traditional use.
However, several dialects have existed within the framework of such strict grammar and new languages are created, therefore, we should eventually teach how language and thought is constructed rather than perpetually making them practice essay writing over and over, and read endless paperworks that they have no interest in partaking upon.
With the rise of call centers and customer service, there is a high demand for workers with multi-lingual skills and effective communication.
Science has become trivialistic to the point that the original discipline is currently being dismissed or washed away by religious indoctrination and fanaticism. This is not to say that religion cannot go hand-in-hand with education, but rather, it should be separated away from the discipline as they are exclusively contradictory to the discipline of how religion is taught.
Speaking of teaching religion, the monopoly of religious discussion in the academe violates the principle of separation of the church and the state as it is passively endorsing a certain kind of religion over another. As religion teaches faith as an essential belief in the dogma, Natural Science on the other hand endlessly questions the material reality through observation and evidence.
I recommend a subject course on axiology and metaphysics where they can freely discuss moral paradigms and lifestyles of different religions and cultures rather than competing with the existentialism of sciences.
Another thing that I haven’t mentioned is the use of education for qualifications toward job hunting. If the state simply adopts this approach, they must be ready that these qualifications would be put to use, otherwise, we are simply wasting resources. I doubt that the education secretary is doing a thing to improve the quality of education in the Philippines.
What I recommend is simply to train them directly to do jobs in the chosen fields they wish to enter. Under the capitalist system where very absurd qualifications are demanded from the citizens even for below living wage, it is no wonder many try to cheat their way just to get a job in order to briefly escape their insufficient financial resources, leading to an artificial scarcity and several inefficiencies.
Last, it must be taken holistically. Drug problems arise from poverty. Poverty increases crime rate. High crime rate diminishes economic activity. Economic activity creates uneducated mass. It is a cyclical and interrelated problem of the society. And now international threat is growing. As I believe, war is 80% psychological and 20% physical.