Majority of my education came from private Catholic schools that measured academic achievement ONLY through excellence in Math, Science, and English. I was made to think I was a failure and was constantly being told I was bobo (stupid). I even had to take an IQ test with a guidance counselor when I was in [...]
I got a bunch of junk mail with my bills the other day. Usually, they go straight to the recycling pile, but this one caught my eye because it was a newsletter from a place called DBC-Interdisciplinary Studies for Arts and Sciences. I have never heard of this institution and don’t know why I had [...]
Every parent and teacher and anyone involved in the education system should view this talk, delivered by Sir Ken Robinson at the annual TED conference in 2006. It is entitled: Do Schools Kill Creativity? I first viewed the video when I was undergoing Teacher-Training for a Multi-Arts School after I graduated from college. It was [...]
Yesterday my kabarkada (one of my BFFs) celebrated a joint birthday with 2 of her other friends from her group “Life’s Directions” by organizing a volunteer tutorial “Cool School” day with incoming college freshman scholars from Montalban and Payatas. The day started out by explaining to the “kids” that everybody has a different kind of [...]
