Sona in numbers
For the past two years, the President displayed her knowledge on Philippine geography, numerical proficiency and adeptness in name recall. But a Sona should be more than just a report card of government’s achievements
Read more at Mongster’s Nest
Q and A’s
I really don’t fell like writing a decent entry after a rough week that I am having now. My vacation was ruined and Odd had to travel back to Bergen to see me instead. I will explain everything on my next post so please bear with me and hopefully things are back to normal. In addition, I would like to thank Anna, Renny and Empress Maruja for their kind words and support.
What They think 100 years Ago?
Paleo-future has an interesting yet true post about prediction. This is about the article of John Elfreth Watkins, Jr. , author of many detective and mystery novels who wrote a piece for the December issue of Ladies Home Journal speculating about what the world will be in the next hundred years.
This is really a strange article which is about the compiled speculations of conservative minds of America and wise men of institutions of science and learning published January 1, 1901 Milwaukee Herold und Seebote newspaper issue.
The real state of Philippine education
Crossposted from my weblog.
ONE of the more popular computing terms while I was in college 20 years ago was GIGO, shorthand for “Garbage In, Garbage Out.”
Not sure if it is still being used, I googled and found out that this aphorism “has fallen out of use as (computer) programs have become more sophisticated and now usually have checks built in to reject improper input.”
This once-popular term came to mind when I reflected some more on President Arroyo’s State of the Nation Address (SONA) last Monday, especially the parts that concerned education. In my previous post, I tackled how a policy reversal on teacher hiring instituted by Education Secretary Jesli Lapus negates the president’s claim that her administration has been investing on better teachers.
This demonstrates that policies are equally powerful inputs into the learning process, very much like Ms. Arroyo’s penchant for the billions of pesos invested on “social safety nets” that include public education. But unlike modern computer programs, there are no such checks in place that would automatically reject garbage policies like what Lapus has instituted.
Pre-birthday Blues
I know, I know. I’ve been MIA the past few weeks. I mean, honestly, can you even call my recent posts “blog entries”? I don’t think so. Still, can’t help it. It’s me being the fickle-minded and depressed person that I always am. My friend thinks differently though. It’s the “pre-birthday blues,” he says. And it’s so obvious that some bloggers even begin to notice that Shari’s, well, gone poof.
Well, it’s not like my birthday’s just around the corner because it’s not. Or like I’m feeling the ever famous “quarter-life crisis” because I’m much too young for that (depends on how you look at it though…if I live to be only 80 years old, then 20 is the QLC, right?). I think what I’m feeling now doesn’t even have anything to do with the age or the event, y’know? If you’ve been a reader of this blog for quite some time now, then you’d notice the ever so often absences with this same old lame-o reason: I don’t feel like blogging.
