The Worst of Education
The Department of Education has been bragging that they have produced the best of the people who are competent to work on any given tasks that are in the market. Yet, we can see millions of the nation's graduates languishing over unemployment while another million suffering from underemployment. Is this what they call competence in education?
Well, let us be balanced in this perspective. There are no possible jobs that are in the region to cope up with the problem of unemployment and underemployment. That maybe tells it!
However, education is the process of keeping people in the right track with every possible module that will help them to be prepared to face the real world with confidence. Education is the process of preparing people to be prepared to get jobs that will make them productive. Education is the preparation for people to apply their best effort to achieve the best they can do to themselves and to their immediate community.
But why the nation's graduates are not producing not a bit?
1. Our educational institutions failed to prepare their graduates with the necessary skill that will help them to produce something. Our education system has become a dull system following sets of rules that are not even comprehensive to the goal of productivity.
2. Our educational system failed to make competent people because of its weak implementation of the necessary educational tools. There is no real education of the citizenry; you can find colleges with weak faculties; weak facilities and weak facts. It will be easy for people to get a good grade even without a good work. It is easy for students to graduate even if they have only low grades and even knowledge. It is a sad fact that most of the gradutes this nation has, have grades just enough to pass.
What a mess! You can find that students are creating a damage to the system. This is no real learning with the graduates we have. You cannot get graduates with real and equipped knowledge of the matter they are taking in.

I am reminded of reading how the foreign correspondents found the news during the ousting of Marcos.
ReplyDeleteThey thought that the news was especially for people outside the country. Everything was described in English.
No longer as Filipino/Tagalog has been imposed on everyone else, in the country, to the detriment of the people competing in the 21st century.