How do you solve the problems in this country?
Sara Soliven de Guzman, COLUMNIST, Philippine Star
Very easy! First and foremost - radically transformed the sick system of education into a healthy system of education. In school, Filipino children should be taught not WHAT to believe fearfully, but HOW to think fearlessly. In this way, they learn to love not a divine mystery up there, but only to love our country down here. We must stop teaching Filipinos about God and that God is always there available at any time to forgive our sins and our crimes. Our greedy, sick, corrupt officials in the government love this priestly arrangement.
All schools, colleges, and universities in the Philippines must be own and operated not by the Church. Education should solely be the duty and responsibility of the State.
If the Filipino is worth dying for, it is only because of his sick system of education. Under a healthy system of education, however, the Filipino becomes worthy of thinking and living for.
According to the Department of Health, 98 per cent of the Philippine population suffer from tooth decaying, molars rotting, and gums bleeding.
Now what can be expected of Pinay mothers who, in school, have been taught to believe not in the values of personal health and sanitation but to have faith only in our terrestrial degradation for the sake of gaining eternal salvation?
Mediocrity inextricably mixed with religious authority in our country has always been and still is the greatest enemy of social decency; and, especially, the spread of national prosperity.
If we want Filipinos to grow healthy as a people; and, the Philippines to develop wealthy as a nation - educate Filipinos to love not the power of silly prayer under a silly theology, but to love the power of work and sanity under the power of science and technology.
Poch Suzara, La Salle
high school expelled Student
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