OPEN LETTER TO BEA AND MA'AM JOY – REFORM EDUCATION BY FOCUS ON TALENT AND RANCHARD

 

OPEN LETTER TO BEA AND MA'AM JOY – REFORM EDUCATION BY FOCUS ON TALENT AND RANCHARD

Joy, I am a former corporate strategist of a big group of companies in my place, and after my early retirement, I proceeded to work as an independent 'freelance' business and community development consultant. I advice our provincial government as well as have been sending suggestions/ proposals to our national government ever since, including Pres Tay Digong.

My study and systems development cover all aspects of our lives and society, but livelihood and business have been one of the priorities.

In the education sector, I have been an advocate to hands-on method of learning, that is, giving the pupils/students the opportunity to instantly put into practice what they have just learned. Immediate application helps write the knowledge in active memory, not becoming a forgotten one in the archive.

When I read your beautiful comment above, I immediately saw the opportunity.. a formula, namely: you + Bea = Beayou as in beautiful.... :)

Seriously, WE NEED A MAJOR REFORM IN OUR EDUCATION.

You are an admirer of Bea and rightly so. In Bea, we see two of the keys of prosperity at work, namely: (1) talent, not formal education; and (2) land developed into a Ranchard (Ranch + Orchard).

If we simplify education, it should be this: In addition to character education, only two major subjects should be focused, namely: talent and ranchard.

Learning from Bea inspiring example, each pupil-student shall pursue a Career Plan based on talent, not based on college education because college education confines you to employment. Talent should be the first major subject DepEd should teach.

The second major subject to be taught at school should be: farming, especially livestock management (ranch) and fruitrees management (orchard); hence, ranchard.

The school system will be more alive and joyous by these two major subjects alone.

We have over 100 years of experience behind us and we see that our education system based on what the government and corporations need, instead of being based on the talents of the kids, has very mediocre effects, namely: slavery to government jobs and corporate jobs, poverty, overseas slavery, destruction of marriages and families, epidemic of mental and body illnesses... all of these are effects of our education or the lack of the missing education which could have prevented our poverty and avoided illnesses.

Not only that our education has allowed financial crisis and health crisis to befall us... the same education also helps these crisis to afflict us. I mean to say that had we had the right education, no poverty and illnesses could afflict us!

Specific examples if you wonder how our education is linked to illnesses. My uncle had a stroke age 55. He told me, "If only our Schools did teach us a subject on health that gives us sufficient knowledge how to avoid stroke and similar deadly illnesses!" So, our school failed: it is either teaching a subject called Health but terribly lacking what should have been included or there is no subject on health at all in schools.

So DepEd has to come to realize and apply the essence of "Health is wealth".

Example 2: Fluoride does not strengthen teeth but secretly decay the tooth from the root to the center! Thus, fluoride secretly fuels the tooth decay epidemic in the generations who use fluoride-containing tooth paste.

Example 3: DepEd did not warn us that the synthetic nitrogen in our synthetic chemical fertilizer forms with our body fat (amino acid) the deadly compound NITROSAMINES, which causes breast cancer.

Example 4: Education is not teaching us that today's overly refined wheat flour is now a gluten and that this gluten destroys our small intestines (celiac disease) and then, poisons our brain resulting to mental illnesses including schizophrenia.

The list is endless...

Conclusion: OUR EDUCATION LACKS EDUCATION THAT CAN ENABLE AND EMPOWER EACH PUPIL-STUDENT ATTAIN BOTH HEALTH AND WEALTH.

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Maam Joy, you need to be in a hurry because I see another fall to lower level of mediocrity and ineffectiveness of our education after covid... THE USE OF ONLINE/ MODULE SYSTEM WITHOUT ACTUAL TEACHER WITHOUT ACTUAL PRACTICE IS LEADING TO MORE INFERIOR LEARNING.

As an advocate for hands-on education (that is, theory must be paired by actual practice), I am sad to see this online / module-based education that both removes teacher and practice.

Think of it.

Education + practice = inferior

This has been the case for many decades.

Now, after covid,

Education - teacher - practice = worse education!

This module-based education will make our kids dumber. The only saving act is to add practice to this teacher-less education.

I am a practitioner of "teacherless, online education with practice" --- hands-on education. I applied it to my two sons who both did not study highschool but spent their years in hands-on computer education. While their classmates took high school education, my two sons had a hands-on actual learning on computer at home.

Result: They took the ALS test and passed for college education on Computer Science. Result: my sons found that much of their lessons were known to them already... so they had to stop learning and wait for their classmates to catch up. They instead helped their teacher tutor their classmates.

Education, especially if online and teacher-less, should be hands-on, that is, always paired with actual practice.

I equipped by boys with computer so they can do practice. Result: they are now very good in both hardware and software.

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So, the vision and reform should be AN EDUCATION FOCUSED ON TALENT AND FARMING ESP. RANCHARD AND IT SHOULD BE A HANDS-ON EDUCATION, THAT IS, WITH PRACTICE.

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May I propose to both of you, Joy and Bea, to kindly work on this to help our nation decide and get inspired to finally take this path of hands-on education on talent and ranchard.

Of course, this means that all other subjects such as English, Math, etc., will serve only as minor and support skills. Also these minor subjects should be with practice.

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Bea, may I solicit a scholarship for a Masteral or Doctorate for Maam Joy? Will you send her to graduate school to get a masteral or doctorate and have our topic as her thesis/ dissertation, to wit: "EDUCATION REFORM FOCUSED ON TALENT AND RANCHARD FOR THE ATTAINMENT OF PROSPERITY IN BOTH HEALTH AND WEALTH".

Bea, I also wish Senator Manny Pacquiao will join you because I have him in mind as one of the future leaders in land reform/ distribution for both ranchard and talent development. I need to work with heart-based politicians to facilitate the implementation of The Commonwealth Act 141 (Land Act of the Philippines) as the law to grant each family at least 5 hectares for ranchard and other farming activities.

I foresee that once a family has its ranchard, then, talent development can be given focus in both time and funding.

Without a farm or ranchard, a family would be forced to work as laborers or employees which means: no time for talent study, practice and development.

We need to secure a family's food with a 5-hectare farm. I will see to it via political reform or government focus on land distribution.

Then, our teachers like you Ma'am Joy and practitioners of talents and ranchard, like you Bea, will be the most in-demand teachers!

God blesses the two of you.

Amien.