Education for Life

Who was the “he” who more than exemplified the very meaning of education and its crucial part in the acquisition of competencies essential to gearing the fatherland towards economic growth and moreover…freedom?

Human strife- to transgress and cuff up to a higher plateau of living, education will serve as a gateway in the leap for a better standard of living.

Filipinos as they always have, showed immense value to the role of education in the sublime drama of day-to-day living. Government-plotted programs have oftentimes corroborated this verity. In fact the formerly known Department of Education Culture and Sports has disintegrated into an agency that accentuates on a single facet of human enhancement- education and nowadays known to us as the Department of Education (DepEd).

Education here in the Philippines is fairly indoctrinated to us as a bequest that every Filipino must aspire to achieving. Once we are able to procure this “birthright” we are to some extent rest assured to having a better prospective in life, which is likewise probable considering the amount of education we are able to attain. Schools make this aspiration possible to every aspirant as it proffer an assortment of career preferences adjacent to realizing profitable avenues of human strengths; and as it bring forth the superlative potentials imbued in today’s youth.

Through the earnest endeavors of these learning institutions embodying the creed and philosophies of Dr. Jose Rizal, our national hero and the premier protagonist of education, the thought of emulating those people in largely developed countries has finally skipped out from being an impossibility. It is now for a fact apparent.

And not only that education is by far delineated as the acquisition of knowledge significant for further acquisition of information for the by and large growth of the aspects of development. It is by twain an answer to our eternal wanting and yearning of security that safeguard us from the injurious tentacles of discrepancy. Ammunition against ignorance, security against turbulence, protection from lethal despair, and our weapon against deceit that color the world in black and white tint.

These and more are the very intention of having education as the center of our intents, for without education the world is no less than a pigsty with people in terrible disorganization. Through education architects are able to build skyscrapers that bring us closer to our biggest passions, demographers to keep track of peoples’ statistics and archaeologists to unveil the hidden secrets of the underlying past.

It is in education that man is able to solve many of his problems. He changes, he advances, he excels. He is able to transcend the existing borders between reality and the virtual. He expands; he opens up new ways, new alternatives and therefore a better life.

“Man” as implied by Confucius in a passage of his, is a receptacle, a container; and so in this instant we as containers must be filled up by the adequacy of education to satisfy not only our minds, but at the same time the inevitable demands of the soul as education of the scriptures, of our social involvements so as the knowledge to adopt and adapt in order to adept.

Inasmuch as definitions are concerned, education is a great piece in man’s pursuit to find the answers to his questions. It remains the only thing we have in the battle for the continuity of life. It is our advancement as Homo sapiens that somehow place us superior from other biotic creation; and so it shall forever be.

1 comment:

Unknown said...

Dear Sir/Madam,

I am a concerned neighbour of one of your students in Tampilisan Campus. Her family is currently unable to let her continue her education due to financial reasons. She is now depressed at the thought of having to stop going to school abruptly *once again*. I would like to inquire if there are any student work i.e. library assistant or scholarship grant that she can do / avail of that should help her continue her studies? She is currently in her second year, taking up BS Criminology at age 19.

I am hoping for your reply the soonest.

Yours truly,
Mrs Raymundo