Christmas is the season of joy and incarnation
By Grace Shangkuan KooChristmas is a joyous time when we can enter different worlds.
Christmas is a joyous time when we can enter different worlds.
Watching and listening to Cecile Licad, Lisa Macuja and Lea Salonga in one concert was a treat that was not to be missed, even if the tickets were steep at P5,000 each, and I was perched high up in the balcony!
It was a lovely evening of classical music, elegance, and the three graces that I had anticipated weeks before. And now, still filled with delight, I reflect again on what the arts can offer to us in the classroom, in our brains and in our life as I contribute to ongoing discussions on restructuring basic education.
It would probably come not as a surprise for many professors that, in this country, affirmative action in freshman admission has been practiced at quite a number of prominent universities. Mind you, this is done not only for the benefit of minority or disadvantaged groups but for male student applicants as well.
Dr. Andreas Schleicher is a man with a mission. He holds thousands of pieces of data on learning outcomes from 74 countries.
Creativity is not a sudden inspiration, a fleeting “aha” moment reserved for a lucky few born with the creative gene.
Sensational stories of students being bullied, causing physical and mental illness or even death, by their own hands or others’, have sadly become too common. Television viewers are becoming desensitized to dangers lurking around school yards or computer desks. It is heartbreaking to see children’s lives ruined by the behavior of other kids, whose parents [...]
If you ask students what they think of school, I bet “BORE-R-RING” is one of the top answers. Bertrand Russell observed that “half of the sins of mankind are caused by a fear of boredom.” Students make mischief in class because of boredom, so do teachers in faculty rooms. Boredom seems to have made some [...]
