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Thursday, August 24, 2006
Talk back: Gone are the days
By Invicto C. Alcantara
(The letter is addressed to Sun.Star columnist Godofredo M. Roperos)
I agree with the view in your column last Aug. 4, 2006 that the cost of primary education is more expensive to the average rural family now as it was two generations ago and that it has become less effective in providing a tool of survival when the child becomes an adult.
I also agree that children now are asked to donate, pay or contribute, just about anything.
I was your contemporary back in the ‘30s and I still recall the textbooks we used: Little Red Hens, Philippine Geography, Philippine Music Series and Philippine Arithmetic.
I recall that one centavo then was already “money.” Usa ka daku could buy one very large puso, usa ka gantang humay mimis, etc. Fare from Dalaguete to Cebu City was 34 centavos.
Even as late as the 1940s, when I was boarding in a Carcar restaurant (I was studying at the Carcar Academy), meals cost me merely 8-11 centavos.
Yes Mr. Roperos, today we can only hum “Gone are the days.”
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