RP Media A Bane To Education

[sue_mo!]

In a recent Business Nightly segment regarding OFWs who made it big abroad and have finally returned home, a brother and sister tandem was featured.

The sister, at a very young age, went to Italy to work as a domestic helper. She explained of her travails and how she endured them just to have a better future. She never bothered pursuing her studies. Now, she is back and has built for herself a fairly modest fortune, including a house in Mabini, Batangas where she intends to settle with her family permanently.

The brother, it was explained, "threw his UST Architecture degree" to become a family driver, also in Italy. He was identified as Joel Hernandez.

It was implied that he wouldn't have been as financially successful if he leaned on his UST education.

What kind of media do we have?

[Altwegg]

It was implied that he wouldn't have been as financially successful if he leaned on his UST education.

Palafox, anyone? Mañosa, anyone?

Maybe you could ponder on what caryatid_kitten posted, and I quote:


The construction and architecture industry is not at its finest now, period. One cannot attribute his fate to the university he graduated from. Heck, if there was Ateneo architecture, the Atenean architect would still experience the same challenges and hardships as the Thomasian architect would.

[Altwegg]

Anyway, media is a boon to education. Learning is not confined within the walls of school and media is one great source of information.

[pro_tempore]

this was... just one occurrence. if you took offense at it, you might wish to take it up with the producers of the show, so it doesn't happen again.

anyway, the implications are objective: if he had relied on his architecture degree (UST, Ateneo, La Salle, whichever), he probably would have been more successful. but if the narrator had sounded judgmental, as in s/he was making the man out to be a disgrace to UST, then perhaps the outrage is more warranted. a man's choices in life don't make him a disgrace to his institution, unless that institution itself renounces him.

[sue_mo!]

i was outraged that the report seemed to sneer at the importance of education.

swerte lang yung magkapatid, but it will not always be the case.

it still pays to have a degree, kahit architecture or nursing from ust lang yan.

[sarahJparker]

well, i think if sa PUP or any public schools or La salle or Feati lang yan, it won't be an issue. kung graduates ng ATENEO, UST and UA&P tapos magwowork as OFW abroad, then its an issue. :)

just my 2 cents.

[muddpie]

Not only that the media has a bad effect on our education but also on the society as well.
The media has created or greatly reinforced the "kawawa kami mentality" at yung sa pagsasadiyos. Instead of encouraging people to work harder and prove themselves; they teach people to be dependent on game shows.

[nerd_'to]

i am tempted to sue abs-cbn!

[mac_bolan00]

why don't you just transfer to GMA? they have openings for gag writers. ;)

[nerd_'to]

how do you know that?

[mac_bolan00]

i was fired from GMA.

[nerd_'to]

sabagay, mukha ka ngang bala.

[mac_bolan00]

:lol:

matulis ba?