For: Those who will take the LET

Values, Moral, and Character Education

You'll probably find some helpful information here:

1. A brief history: Character Education and approaches to Moral Education
2. Teaching moral values
3. Values Education: Theory/Practice/Problems/Prospects

"I am the Highway" (Audioslave)

I'd heard this music somewhere, a long time ago. I feel today that it's cooler than the first time I heard it. Here.

UP Diliman Lantern Parade 2009

This is only one of the lanterns from the hall of famer College of Fine Arts. The parade is is still going on at this writing.

What do these pictures mean?

Well, the pictures mean that I need a better camera as I've not done justice to the beauty of these campus scenes this Christmas season. The U.P. Diliman Theater (top photo) is my favorite night spot this time of the year. It's a beauty to behold, something that could make you smile even when you're sad and scared.

The U.P. Diliman Oblation area is another place you must not miss if you're visiting your Alma mater. It's not only what's there to see but also the memories this ethereal spot brings that will lift your spirit up. You must come here if you have time and smell again the cleanest and that familiar December air in the city.  

The Quezon Hall and the Oblation, as always, stand imperiously like they are witnesses to the coming and going of the best and the worst University graduates and non-graduates that once set foot and stirred up their minds in this celestial part of the world.

Advanced happy Christmas to everyone.

For: Those who are reviewing for the LET

The links below will take you to some sites whose content might be helpful in the Philosophy of Education part of the licensure examination for teachers in the Philippines:

1. Idealism, Realism, Existentialism, and Pragmatism
2. Perennialism, Essentialism, Progressivism, and Social Reconstructionism
3. Learning Theories
4. ARISTOTLE; AUGUSTINE, ST.; BAGLEY, WILLIAM C.; BODE, BOYD H.; BRAMELD, THEODORE; CHILDS, JOHN L.; COMENIUS, JOHANN; COUNTS, GEORGE S.; DEWEY, JOHN; FREIRE, PAULO; HERBERT, JOHANN; JAMES, WILLIAM; KILPATRICK, WILLIAM H.; MONTESSORI, MARIA; NEILL, A. S.; PESTALOZZI, JOHANN; PLATO; ROUSSEAU, JEAN-JACQUES; WHITEHEAD, ALFRED NORTH.

Peñaflorida's heroism: Evidence of incompetent educational leadership

"Peñaflorida’s int’l triumph indictment of RP gov’t’s failure" (Philippine Daily Inquirer)

How could anyone disagree with this? Any country that has a hero like Peñaflorida must have a useless education secretary and a knocked-around president. Indeed, the honorable Peñaflorida is an ironic offspring of the neglect that has stymied the intellectual and emotional growth of many indigent Filipinos.

But if you've been a dutiful and productive citizen of our country, believe me, we have no one else to blame for the lack of education of many Filipinos but the politicians alone. Who, in the first place, claimed that they could run this country most effectively? Who claimed to know how to solve the troubles of this nation?

Why teachers need a vacation?

Teachers deserve a long and paid vacation in the Caribbean Islands, right? Why, read the selected excerpts below from student tests:

"Charles Darwin was a naturalist who wrote the organ of the species" (ADPRIMA, 1997-2009). 
"Benjamin Franklin produced electricity by rubbing cats backwards" (ADPRIMA, 1997-2009).

"The theory of evolution was greatly objected to because it made man think" (ADPRIMA, 1997-2009).