Uneducated education

Tunggak – iyan ang bagong salitang natutunan ko kay Isagani. Tinukoy niya ang mga prayle sa panahon ni Rizal na nagsisilbing guro ng kabataang Pilipino, ngunit ipinagdadamot ang kaalaman sapagkat ayaw nilang magkaloob ng karunungan sa bayan.

Hanggang ngayon ay may mga tunggak (ang kaisipan ay galing kay Isagani) pa rin.

Palit muna tayo ng medium of speech.

We, students attend school to learn and to get an education. Since early childhood, our parents have enrolled us to quality schools because they believe that that will be our strong foundation for a good future.

When I look at my nursery graduation picture, I feel the pain on my neck while wearing those medals but I was grinning and I remember the smiles my parents were wearing at that time. I was the montessorian, I held the name, not just any name but the school’s name.

I was the hyper kinder student then. I would blab and blab and blab, and I still remember the time when my teacher told me to stand on the corner for being so makulet. Still, I am an honor student. I remember getting the biggest role, playing Psalty in our Christmas presentation, and most of all I felt how happy my parents were.

Getting to elementary was a big step especially that I was in a new, unknown world. I found the teachers daunting which I think the reason for my transformation into a shy girl. Though I was clueless in that new school for two years, I maintained to be in honor. Then my mom transferred me to a new one for it was a quality school according to people. All my grades were maintained highly, despite the high standard school’s reputation. I graduated from elementary with honor.

And I entered the prestige high school acing the entrance exam. I got worried for people say that students there do not sleep, for school works are piled up. And my first year there was well, quite easy. Honestly, the ‘easy-high-school’ reputation for my elementary school was true. Some people even told me that I will rank number one, but unfortunately, someone deserved better for it, still I was an honor student.

So much for my sophomore and junior year, I got effing confused and pressured by reasons…

And now I’m in my fourth year, ready to graduate and step up to college. But that’s not my concern for writing this ‘portfolio’ of my education. If THEY would just understand that we need to learn. I had worked for my achievements up there, and I would not want for this to be ruined because I was not taught.

All students in my classroom wear the same uniform, paid the same enrollment fee and know the same alphabet. So why give us different lessons from them? Is it because you thought that we might not comprehend? Yes, we understand that they are genius in that matter, but will you let idiocy prevail? Why don’t you give us the knowledge to let education reign over idiocy?

I believe that when you entered that so-called profession, you have promised to teach the knowledge that is needed to let the youth be what the society needs it to be. But what have you done? You have spoiled us into the world where we can’t seem to understand.