Modern-Day Don Quixote What started out to be a simple complaint raised at a PTA meeting grew to become one of the most affective crusades in the face of the Philippine Education scenario.
Antonio Calipjo-Go, former Academic Supervisor of Marian School of Quezon City and Nemesis of Defective Textbooks, finally decides to throw in the towel after ten years of steadfast battle against error-filled textbooks.
To wage war against the bigwigs of the Philippine society in order that both the private and public education system in the country are rid of error-filled textbooks is no joke especially when doing so meant having to face heaps upon heaps of libel suits filed against him by the publishing companies in question and having to endure countless blows that come in the form of insults and black propaganda borne from baseless hear-says orchestrated by supposed connections in the Philippine print media.
Who then would be man enough to go through what Go has? Whistle-blowers Beware The Philippines is a country gifted with 7,100 enchanting island paradises and a people born to possess natural talent, fair intelligence and a general positive disposition, whose heart would not cry for its seemingly predestined journey to eventual deterioration because of the growing number of clueless, ignorant and unpatriotic youth immersed in a system steeped with falsehoods and apathy? With Go gone, Philippines will be short of one civilian who took upon himself to expose publishing companies for the money-making empires that they truly are.
Wanted: Book Doctor for Sickbooks When the term "textbook publishing" in the Philippines equate money-making instead of knowledge dispersal or skills development, who would not be alarmed? Before the name Antonio Calipjo-Go first came out in newsprints, information found in textbooks were considered to be gospel truths - all faultless and free of errors.
Parents could still entrust most of their children's education to teachers.
For even with teachers who do not teach with precision and accuracy and have the competence expected of them, at least, the information they are teaching the kids are all correct.
What happens if the very source of information is found to have inconsistencies and errors in grammar, sense and logic? A Strong Republic in Name In a society that turns deaf ears on and persecutes whistle-blowers instead of the actual perpetrators of crimes, the hope of seeing a country on its way to becoming a "Strong Republic" is far from ever happening.
One could only wish for more Mr.
Gos in the future - civilians who go out of their ways to care about their country and the plight of its people against poverty, injustice and miseducation.
Antonio Calipjo-Go, former Academic Supervisor of Marian School of Quezon City and Nemesis of Defective Textbooks, finally decides to throw in the towel after ten years of steadfast battle against error-filled textbooks.
To wage war against the bigwigs of the Philippine society in order that both the private and public education system in the country are rid of error-filled textbooks is no joke especially when doing so meant having to face heaps upon heaps of libel suits filed against him by the publishing companies in question and having to endure countless blows that come in the form of insults and black propaganda borne from baseless hear-says orchestrated by supposed connections in the Philippine print media.
Who then would be man enough to go through what Go has? Whistle-blowers Beware The Philippines is a country gifted with 7,100 enchanting island paradises and a people born to possess natural talent, fair intelligence and a general positive disposition, whose heart would not cry for its seemingly predestined journey to eventual deterioration because of the growing number of clueless, ignorant and unpatriotic youth immersed in a system steeped with falsehoods and apathy? With Go gone, Philippines will be short of one civilian who took upon himself to expose publishing companies for the money-making empires that they truly are.
Wanted: Book Doctor for Sickbooks When the term "textbook publishing" in the Philippines equate money-making instead of knowledge dispersal or skills development, who would not be alarmed? Before the name Antonio Calipjo-Go first came out in newsprints, information found in textbooks were considered to be gospel truths - all faultless and free of errors.
Parents could still entrust most of their children's education to teachers.
For even with teachers who do not teach with precision and accuracy and have the competence expected of them, at least, the information they are teaching the kids are all correct.
What happens if the very source of information is found to have inconsistencies and errors in grammar, sense and logic? A Strong Republic in Name In a society that turns deaf ears on and persecutes whistle-blowers instead of the actual perpetrators of crimes, the hope of seeing a country on its way to becoming a "Strong Republic" is far from ever happening.
One could only wish for more Mr.
Gos in the future - civilians who go out of their ways to care about their country and the plight of its people against poverty, injustice and miseducation.
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