[busy signaL]
[Sunday, April 30, 2006]
vince forwarded me a text message today, concerning the apparent birthday of john baptist de la salle. i was being entreated to view the joyous commemoration as a reminder to "live out the spirit of saint la salle as demonstrated by the tenets of lasallian education". inspiring words, if only the aforementioned school system were still interested in what its founder believed in.
the institute of the brothers of the christian schools, according to my lasallian high school education, was set up in order to give financially-challenged youngsters a quality of education equal to that found in expensive private schools. an admirable mission-vision for its time; today, however, there are a number of things amiss when considering its applicability:
first, financially-challenged youngsters are not to be found in a lasallian school. second, quality education does not exist anywhere in the philippines. and third, the only reason why lasallian education can compete with private schools is because it has become one as well.
calling attention to the lifestyle supposedly advocated by lasallian brothers only exacerbates the irony, since example is a far more convincing teacher than rote. if there are any alumni out there who still believe that they owe their success to their college education, it is only due to one of two things - accurate working knowledge of what not to do, or a network of contacts spanning half the globe.
i suppose, then, that i too should be thanking my teachers. without their expert guidance, i would have had neither the cynicism nor the acerbity to flesh out this entry.
sige ingat.ΓΌ
posted by stani at 7:01 PM
the institute of the brothers of the christian schools, according to my lasallian high school education, was set up in order to give financially-challenged youngsters a quality of education equal to that found in expensive private schools. an admirable mission-vision for its time; today, however, there are a number of things amiss when considering its applicability:
first, financially-challenged youngsters are not to be found in a lasallian school. second, quality education does not exist anywhere in the philippines. and third, the only reason why lasallian education can compete with private schools is because it has become one as well.
calling attention to the lifestyle supposedly advocated by lasallian brothers only exacerbates the irony, since example is a far more convincing teacher than rote. if there are any alumni out there who still believe that they owe their success to their college education, it is only due to one of two things - accurate working knowledge of what not to do, or a network of contacts spanning half the globe.
i suppose, then, that i too should be thanking my teachers. without their expert guidance, i would have had neither the cynicism nor the acerbity to flesh out this entry.
sige ingat.ΓΌ
posted by stani at 7:01 PM