Category Archives: Education

The State of Education Today: A Discourse on the Destruction of Creativity

Posted on April 30, 2013 by benign0

We’ve bought into the idea that education is about training and “success”, defined monetarily rather than learning to think critically and to challenge. We should not forget that the true purpose of education is to make minds, not careers. A … Continue reading →

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Criminality is the sign of society’s moral decadence, social poverty and economic inequality

Posted on April 25, 2013 by benign0

It has been quite some time now that the prevailing issues, hot topics and shocking headlines of our newspapers and the dominant talk of the town is the apparent and seeming rise of criminal statistics and the rampant commission of … Continue reading →

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Do Filipinos understand what debates are really all about?

Posted on April 25, 2013 by FallenAngel

It seems Nancy Binay has recently become the subject of a few satirical articles. The focus of such satire is her apparent aversion towards participation in any kind of political debate during the election campaign. Court grants Nancy Binay’s Temporary … Continue reading →

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Higher education for poor Filipinos: Two Cents from a ‘Filipino Traitor’

Posted on April 22, 2013 by benign0

My last article got me accused of being too anti-Filipino for my stand against giving poor Filipinos the opportunity to get a university degree. I was told that to deny the poor Filipinos the same opportunity that I had, to … Continue reading →

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Education Freebies for the Poor? What the Fudge?!

Posted on April 2, 2013 by benign0

First of all I would like to request my readers to look at this funny video below from the show Bubble Gang. Funny, huh? But let’s think about a certain angle for a moment. Suppose that you are a student … Continue reading →

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Uto-utomaton Nation

Posted on April 2, 2013 by benign0

Ever wonder why Pinoys keep electing the same types of people every election year? The answer is simple, really™ and it is not a new idea. Most Pinoys are conditioned to follow so called “experts”, “authorities”, “opinion leaders”, and now, … Continue reading →

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The Net community: unleashing the Filipino’s intellectual potential

Posted on February 7, 2011 by ilda

The Philippines has no shortage of morons. This is evident in the number people who defy logic or facts without using any empirical evidence to support their stand. This is also evident in the number of people who are supposedly … Continue reading →

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Burma and the Philippines: struggling for democracy

Posted on January 13, 2011 by ilda

In a move reminiscent of its coverage of the late Former Philippine President Corazon “Cory” Aquino’s political career, TIME magazine has recently featured on its cover not once, but twice in less than two months, another woman who is touted … Continue reading →

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Filipinos, it's time to take back our Government!

Posted on January 7, 2011 by ilda

It’s been a while since there was anything in the mainstream media that was worth reading. One can’t even read some of the articles for mere entertainment value alone because most of the columnists are either too politically correct or … Continue reading →

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The payload of mind-poison in every ABS-CBN product

Posted on January 6, 2011 by benign0

With ABS-CBN, before you can even get your head around evaluating the content of their programs, you need to get past their garish manner of presentation first — all those bells and whistles and fancy jeepney-like colour and graphics splashed … Continue reading →

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