Opening of classes in the Philippines are here again, parents are doing everything to save money needed for the enrollment of their kids. They're working very hard to be able to earn money but some schools especially the private schools are making it harder for them. Most of the schools in the Philippines always make revision to the prescribed book to prevent students from just borrowing a used book from friends or relatives, this mean additional profit for them because students will be forced to buy the new revised books. During my time, I'm only borrowing the books of a relative or sibling, this give a lot of savings to my parents. Unfortunately, this day due to greed, students can no longer do this to save money.
I understand that there are some updates that need to be done, but it should not be on all the subjects and not as frequent as they currently doing. It can be acceptable for computer books since there are always changes in computer technology, but for other books like mathematics, language, those were invented long time ago and heard no changes recently, it obvious the main reason for revising the book is money. And the most unbelievable is even books regarding religion is being updated frequently. I cannot imagine that there are always changes in the teachings of our Creator and sadly the project director of the book is a priest. I cannot believe that he will condone an action that is very clearly have a negative effect to the people and the environment.
According to the prediction of some scientist by 2030 we will need two earths just to supply the resources we need to survive. Upon reading it, I thought that the author is only making a hyperbole but by the way I see people now on how they exploit our natural resources due to greed for money, I think what the author mentioned is not far from happening. It needs 500,000 trees to produce one ton of papers. If all students will buy new books it is not impossible for us to consume that one ton of papers to make a new book for every student in only one school year.
It is scary to know that money is now became so powerful, it can now dictate people on what to do, sadly, most of this are not good for the human kind and environment. And they can now control people in every walk of life including those who you think will guide us to what is morally right. The president is planning to increase the number of school year to enhance the education of the Filipinos and improve their lives. But for me this is not the right thing to do, as long as we have this kind of system in our school institutions, even you lengthened it to another more year this will not improve the Filipino lives. The school has a big influence in our children lives; they are the one that suppose to hone them into a better person. But showing our children this kind of business, it is not possible that they will do the same thing in the future. With the institution that suppose to be the one to instill what is morally right is the one showing example of wrongdoing and greed, improvement of Filipino life is still far from reality.
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June 17, 2011
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