The Yankees are just so proud to tell Pinoys for bringing unto their shores the blessings of public school system. Pinoys in return, are so proud to be Americanized in many ways. All because of the public school system, which Americans used as instrument to continuously, subjugate the Filipinos. May it not be through physical presence, more importantly, through cultural influences, which is more powerful than the former.
The thing is infuse a higher dosage of ideas on persons` forehead, and you’ll have him entirely through the end.
Public school system may either be a boon or a bane to many. Parents would be happy to send their children to school without any penny going out from their empty pockets, yet also damn the government why their children have to be taught with incompetent teachers under the mango tree. Thus, ending up jobless or underemployed after twenty years of either burning candles or beer guzzling. However, these half a million grads each year is still lucky they were able to finish out of millions of out-of-school youth doing nothing at all. At least, they still have that greater opportunity of going outside the country to work as DH or caregiver or as skilled worker though their credentials speak highly of them.
Well abroad, Pinoy intellectuals are nothing greater than those who speak carabao English. They’re all just second-class citizens, huh!
Before, parents would say to their child, “dahil bobo ka, mag-titser ka na lang.” Today, they would advise, “ dyes mil na ang sweldo ng titser, kaya mag-education (course) ka na lang.” Maybe these were the reasons why public education system is deteriorating as reflected on the incompetent, half-baked graduates. Why? This is because these teachers have no strong solid moral and philosophical foundation regarding their chosen profession. Hence, no love lost on what we call social responsibility of educating the ignorance and the entire society. They would just look upon their profession as a means of having a better lifestyle. Thus, the tocinos, longganisas, candies, rtw`s, and the 5-6`s. Tomorrow, we would not be surprised if parents will tell their children, “mag-education kayo, in-demand ngayon sa Amerika ang maraming teachers. Mataas na ang sahod. Dolyar pa.” This is not impossible with the growing “market” for teachers in the US and Europe. Currently, nurses are the most needed. Coming soon are the teachers. Most probably, in the next five years the Philippines will have a shortage of nurses. And in the next ten years, teachers.
This is what the colonialized system of education has done for us. Pinoys are taught not how to serve the Philippines; they are taught how to better serve other nations through their multi-national corporations and trans-national corporations. Pinoys are taught how to use the computers but not how to make one so that we will always be at the mercy of the Silicon Valley. Pinoys are taught about the philosophies of the Westerners and Chinese’ but was never taught about the ideal society from the viewpoint of a Rizal or a Bonifacio, which I think would be more applicable to us because they have lived and understood what it’s like to be a Filipino.
Americans entice us with the lure of finding white-collar jobs so that our agriculture sector will always be lagging behind from theirs. They translated “magtanim ay di biro” to “planting rice is never fun,” hence, Pinoys have that impression that being a farmer is never a funny job. Anyway, who likes to be working with no fun at all. They translated “bahay kubo kahit munti,” to “my nipa hut is very small” so as to overemphasized that Pinoy houses are so very small to the mansions of the Americans. And to debase more our English proficiency, they translated “bayang magiliw,” to “land of the morning.”These whole things might have given birth to the carabao English. Of course, magiliw is different from morning. The Yankees would just laugh at the Pinoys knowing Pinoys would still love them even though they were already saying the wrong things. Pinoy yan , eh. I remember when the Philippines filed a diplomatic protest against Italy for defining Filipina as domestic helper in one of its dictionaries.
Would we call it the miseducation of the Noypis? Hmmm. Let`s ask the government.
And its answer would be: foreign-debt servicing is a much-needed priority. Privatization of the education sector is the most viable alternative. We need bigger bucks to buy more gunpowder in the military. But, aren`t we already have enough of gunpowder in our schools and government? Tsk…tsk…tsk… (10-17-03)
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