Monday, June 6, 2011

Solutions for Pilipino Education

     The primary objective of the Basic Education program is to graduate productive and nationalistic Pilipino youth.

     This has to be done in a manner that will enhance the National Interests in the economic, political, cultural and social spheres that will redound to most of us Pilipinos.

     Given the broad front of developmental programs that has to be implemented by our country, this has to be done in a cost-effective manner, giving the most bang for the buck.


  1. Maintain 1:30 teacher to student ratio in every class
  2. Maintain 1:1 class to classroom ratio in every school
  3. Concentrate on Reading, Writing, and Values on the first two years
  4. Stop the textbook churn where textbooks are constantly changed, benefiting only the book publishers and corrupt officials while producing error-prone books
  5. Standardize school building designs that can be used as calamity evacuation areas, to reduce cost and corruption
  6. Provide all teachers access to computers to ease their work load and research
  7. Stop all demolition of school buildings until no. 2 above is reached, and require repairs instead
  8. Increase the basic salary of teachers to P25,000 per month
  9. Use Information and Communications Technology such as the computer, Internet, cell phone, radio, television, to make education accessible to all