Happy new month

Today is a new month!

What am I suppose to do other than type this entry? I already finished the four articles assigned to me since Tuesday. Our supervisor isn’t here yet. The office is silent again, oh i mean as usual. People do their own businesses. What is not good at the beginning of today is we do not have our Internet connection!

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Reading the newspaper…

The Philippines is again at the top. Yes, having recently tagged as having the Asia’s most crowded classrooms.

What has become of our education system? From crowded classrooms to unqualified teachers, to deteriorating English skills, to erroneous textbooks, to downgraded facilities, to many other flaws, our education system have it all! So what our future generation become if they will be educated within the Philippine education system, there is no exemption whether a child is schooling in private or public institutions.

Let me go back to the crowded classrooms issue. Like books, pens and papers, classrooms are also part of the basic commodity of formal learning. Classrooms will immediately turn the student’s atmosphere into learning. However, in cases that the classrooms are crowded, there will be so much destruction because there will be too many persons with different views, characters, and attitudes that a single learner would be dealing. Besides, it would be crowded and will make the atmosphere hot and the students uneasy. Ideally, there should only be 30-35 students in a class; however, since there are no available classrooms, more than 50 students are packed into regular size classroom. The end result will be one or more of the following: the students will become insecure of their classmates, the students will have less concentration on the lessons, it would be difficult to the teachers to manage the class, it would also difficult both for the students and the teachers to communicate the lessons. So how could the government give our future generation the quality education that will make them competitive in and outside the country if they could not even give them a simple classroom?

There are many issues to be addressed in the Philippines’ educational system but this is just a simple matter to ponder.