On 1/9/07, Mhac Janapin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Pathetic isn't it? But there is still hope though because not everybody is contented with our current educational system. :-)
Unfortunately, I would like to think that the education problem cannot be solved by stop-gap solutions. Yes, definitely we can solve it one step at a time, but without a general direction and plan, we're doomed. A $100 laptop might help, but without the basic building blocks to actually understand how to use these laptops, they'd be pretty much useless. Although one can argue that children (and I mean young children) can learn to play CounterStrike outside of schools shows that they have the incredible capacity to learn computers, that's just pretty much what they have -- and unless we teach them at an early age of how to read and how important reading is, they're going to get stuck playing CounterStrike instead of learning how to manage companies, create jobs, bring glory to the country, and be the leaders of the next generations. What the education system needs is a concrete and sincere plan of uplifting the state of education in our country, and not some stop-gap solutions which might work in the short run but not have long-term goals in mind. The education system needs money, people who care, and a plan to pull our children out of the gutter -- and people willing to work with that plan. Until that's done, no number of laptops can solve the education problem our country has been facing for the longest time. HTH -- Dean Michael C. Berris http://cplusplus-soup.blogspot.com/ mikhailberis AT gmail DOT com +63 928 7291459 _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
