How were they raised as children?
Why are they living below the standard that average people normally do? Not many people really know the correct answer.but sensible and serious thinking people would easily give the answer as "it is the lack or absence of quality and proper education." Don't blame their parents - for they were in the same predicament when they were still being raised too. There are exceptions to the case, however, when a poor family is able to survive and change their living condition for better. But, such is always not the case. And whose fault is it, if you may ask? Well, good question. Its the government and the rich people.
Uneducated Person have very little chance to Prosper. How can a government overlook this? Our country could have been very proud when an article showed, way back in late 90's, that Kuwait citizens have only less than 10% literacy compared to us which was ~90% then. Don't be misled, my friends, literate is totally different from educated and skilled! Literate can only understand what you are saying or what he/she is reading but, they may not know what to do with the information that they received! Educated and skilled - means they can convert into productive means what they comprehend!
Decades of Government Inefficiencies and neglects! Our governments, for many decades now, have continued to fail to address the issue of education. That our governments, even after Marcos' downfall, failed to address this old issue is truly unforgivable and mind-boggling! Our governments also grossly failed to provide the basic services that are very much needed by the poor in order to survive this cruel world without even physically dying, but suffer mentally and morally!
Try talking to the poorest of the poor and you find that many of them are very lacking in values or even the proper conduct a properly educated person would normally show. Of course, there are still too many educated people who do not use what they have learned and act just like most of the poorest, or maybe, even worst. They don't have the right values and that is still a case of lacking in proper education!
The poor people suffer the most from the inefficiencies of our government. The rich people will hardly mind a heavy traffic in their air conditioned cars as much as the ordinary and the poor who either walk, take a bike, ride a tricycle, in a public bus without air condition unit, or even in a jeep! The ordinary and the poor gets intoxicated by all the smoke belchings and nauseating smells when they go out of their not so comfortable shanties. They are the ones who get a heavy body and buttocks massage by the heavily damaged roads, or worst - accidentally fall in an uncovered manhole or canal. The rich people will not befall these kinds of tragedies because they buy their foods and clothing's from air conditioned malls and supermarkets!
Look around you and you easily see how many of the Filipinos are improperly educated, or didn't have the education.
Our country is going down the drain and only the corrupt government officials and very few rich people will survive.Somebody must do something concrete and fast to avert our country's eventual destruction because of poor education!
Come to think of it, most of the answers to the questions below boils down to one thing: Lack of Education!
Why do we need so many traffic aids?
Why is Subic bay able to successfully implement traffic rules?
Why do we have to build overpasses, even in front of barangay halls, but allow people, even little school children, to cross the street right under them?
Why is the DSWD allowing beggars to roam the streets and public places and beg for alms? Aren't they supposed to be kept at the DSWD and trained for a livelihood, send them to school, and give them a work?
Why is there a need to give pork (PDAF) to the legislators when their job is supposedly to create law only?!
Why is the justice in our country too slow and how come every new chief justice is not addressing this issue?
Why are the heavily damaged roads continued to be unrepaired for so long a period of time?
Possible source of fund to improve our education system..P
Why don't the government start levying taxes on jeepney drivers, taxis, market vendors, stall and meat/fish/garments vendors in malls like target malls, etc., even for 5% or so of their income? This move will surely generate big revenue for the government and use it to improve the lives of poor families!
Amazing Examples to Emulate! When I went to the USA sometime late 90's I experienced two amazing incidents that are worth sharing here. Tingin ko matagal pa bago natin matularan ito at the rate our country is doing:
1. Our first morning in Dallas, Texas, 1996. I got up much earlier than my colleagues and was ready to go. While two of my colleagues were still taking a bath, I took our rental car and went around to survey the vicinity and try to familiarize myself around so I would know where to buy our foods later that night when we get back from our training. I came into a rotonda with a traffic light that was blinking the Orange light (meaning - proceed with care) because it was still around 6:45 AM then. There were three cars in queue to the intersection so I took my queue too. The cars proceeded one at a time, I noted. When I reached the corner I made a full stop myself and looked around. I noticed that all other cars from other intersection corners were on full-stop mode and only one car was proceeding each time - alternately and counter-clockwise. Curious, I looked around to see if there was a police who was manning the traffic and was awed to find there was none! What a self discipline those American drivers showed me that it left me jaw dropped!
2. My first day too in California, February 1s997, and I was driving our rented car, as usual because I was the only one who could drive then - with me are my two colleagues, going to our training site. We notice there was a slight build-up of traffic although it was not really heavy. We found out later that there was a streetlight post that was knocked down - probably due to an early morning accident. First day of our training was done and we got out out the training site at exactly 5:00 PM. Well, what do you know? We found the toppled streetlight post as having fully erected just like nothing happened several hours earlier. Dito sa Pinas, malamang itatabi lang yan para di makasagabal sa traffic pero tumba pa rin at mas malamang na abutin pa ng isang buwan bago maitayo muli. Sus!
Recurring issues. These problems seem to repeat themselves over and over again because no one is really there to provide the needed direction. Our governments are are always too busy polishing their image and parrying assaults from left and right because they are always unprepared for the position. The left and the right wing blocks are always there attempting to grab the power from our government because governments, old and new alike, are always treating them with kid gloves! They even release convicted coup plotters (and make them senators too!) and plunderers just to appear as reformists. Only in the Philippines!
May pag-asa pa ba ang Pilipinas? Since Marcos was was overthrown wala pa rin nangyari at patuloy tayong palubog! Iniwan na tayo ng Vietnam, Indonisia, India, atbp na pawang dati nang nag-aral sa atin! Ngayon, yung IRRI na datii nating pinagmamalaki ay na-kopya na ng mga bansa ito at mas pina-unlad pa nila. Tinuruan natin sila noon pero tayo na ngayon ang kulelat!
May babangon pa kayang maayos na lider natin na gagabay sa atin tungo sa tamang LANDAS? Wala na bang Jose Rizal na muling magpapa-siklab ng ating buhay?
I have little confidence in president P-Noy but, I'm willing to give him a chance, and pray hard that he succeeds and stand up to his promises.I sincerely hope, that the lost of other better qualified candidates to him during the recent election would be justified. If he fails, then we will be in a very sorry state until year 2016!
Where do we go from here? Bottom line, we need to grow and train our future generations by giving them the proper education. Let EDUCATION be a mandatory requirement for each and every child. Foremost in the education is teaching them the right VALUES and PATRIOTISM for our country!
Sulong, Pilipinas!
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