Hi Junn, On 1/9/07, Junn Flores <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Maybe we can make use of the OLPC project not as a stop-gap solution, but as a component of a bigger plan. We can have the general direction and plan and implement it a step at a time. Probably the key is considering each oppurtunity as a part of a general direction, with us here helping and still willing to help. Others may see it as nonsense, I see it as a very good project and I'm pretty sure it won't stop in the distribution of the laptops.
There's no question that the OLPC project is a good one. It's actually one of the more noble endeavors Mankind has taken much like the drive to cure Cancer and the drive to alleviate poverty. I rank it as one of the better projects that need the most attention and support it can get. However, I agree that we need to use it as a component of a bigger plan. But what's missing now from the Philippine government is that bigger plan. As you still very well know, public education is not the best education you can get here in the Philippines. Maybe UP with the wealth of patriots that continue teaching under that compensation plan is an exception, but the rule is generally sub-par facilities, sub-par resources, and disgruntled under-payed educators. What we should fix first are the issues that need most attention. We have yet to get a regime which is serious in building the future through education, and I think it's high time we get one elected soon. One with a plan to invest in the future instead of being short sighted and focusing resources and efforts into staying in power and "short term economic gains".
Until we think of small bits of solutions geared toward a generalized goal as part of that plan, with the current status of the government and the general populace, we surely won't get nowhere. We'll just be left here, thinking and planning in eternity.
It's a systemic problem we have here, which is the continued indifference of the government. Whatever plan the private sector has, unless you can take over the public education system we cannot do much. So unless some of the well meaning people here in the mailing list get elected and solve the problems we've all been b*tching about, then I suppose yes: we'll be left thinking and planning in eternity. But that's a good step, recognizing that we need to do something about it.
An oppurtunity is here. Rather than spending billions for a very few greedy people, we may spend it for the OLPC now, then we may have a jumpstart for the bigger plan we all have in mind. I just hope somebody of significance can hear us and consider, thinking about the future generation, thinking about my people.
I agree. :) -- 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
