“Ang mamatay ng dahil sayo.”
TO FIGHT is even plastered out in our very national anthem.
Lupang Hinirang does not merely tell us to sit back and wait for good things to happen.
It tells us to fight and do what it takes for our motherland.
The Philippine national anthem is taught in school since the earliest grade levels. The love for the country is inculcated to young Filipino learners.
In college, the Philippine constitution is also taught. There is even much emphasis in learning the Bill of Rights, the assertion of rights, and mechanism were also laid down should public officials misbehave.
In other words, when the Filipino people, even Filipino students, learn to assert and fight for their rights, it shows the success of the Philippine educational system.
It shows an education that does not only program students to work, be skilled, and earn money.
If students learn the struggle of history’s heroes, their predecessors, and the majority of the poor, the Philippine education has been successful in producing not only skilled workers, but real humans.
Humans that are not only hard-wired to obey and work, but to empathize and to love the Philippines and its people.
If a learner decides to transfer all of his or her complaints and arguments from the classroom and their term papers to the streets, this is still a success of the Philippine educational system.
The country was able to produce learners that do not only care about themselves and what would make themselves happy, but to fight for others, other than themselves.
Another success indicator is that they are able to use the Philippine Constitution’s provisions in addressing their grievances to the state and exercise their right to free speech.
Most haven’t even been crossing the lines of sedition or treason.
National Youth Commission chair Ronald Cardema does not have to call out to revoke the scholarships of “anti-government” students when we can see that these students are displaying the supposed expected results of education, of how a learned Filipino student and youth should be.