The Construct

Oh that should be the least of your worries, Senator Angara.

Those 100 academics you helped ship should come back but their return shouldn’t be tied to utang na loob. It’s a worthy cause for the academic but the government must be able to capitalize on these scholar’s potential contributions by uplifting the standards of education here as well.

Mind you that a number of our academics abroad are there primarily because of the government’s failure to provide better learning venues. Our state universities rot due to budget cuts. Teachers sacrifice better lives by staying in the academe. And I’m glad you see things that way.

But how about the rest of us here, Senator Angara? How about the rest of the academics who toil for their own academic development all while paying taxes and serving the country? The answer I’m looking for is not about creating more opportunities to go abroad, it’s about making sure that our own institutions are able to provide world class instruction.

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It seems like I haven’t really detached myself from my idealistic roots. Four sleepless months and 160 pages of social commentary and critical discourse analysis does that to you.

I’ll be speaking to young kids tomorrow about the learning resources on the Web and how to maximize them. I’m still thinking of what kind of message can I give to kids. I just don’t want to lecture. I want to reach out. Sure, I could sound preachy. But that has been a sort of disgruntled dream I have – build my own ministry. Haha.

Browsing from one blog to another, I chanced upon this post on growth and a career abroad. (Funny how I jumped from Angelo‘s to Yuga‘s to Mae‘s blog).

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