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Second National Coordinating Council of Private Educational Associations Congress at the historic landmark Manila Hotel
WHILE the Constitution guarantees free public education on the basic education level, a significant portion of the responsibility to secure the development of the young rests with private schools. The role of private schools expands at the higher levels of education. While private schools take on just a tenth of the total number of elementary school pupils, private higher educational institutions outnumber public colleges and universities by a ratio of nine to one. Private schools have been able to maintain a high quality of instruction and produced many of the country’s leaders.
Speaking Out
ONE of the regular readers of this column has emailed me to say that she is trying to ignore and "block out" of her system the ongoing senatorial campaign because she is dismayed and disgusted by the level of mudslinging and muckraking this early in the game. She is not alone in voicing this sentiment. Quite a number of our citizens are simply tired of the character assassination and venom that mark election season. Our elections, which are supposed to be the highest expression of our people’s democratic will, bring out the worst in us instead.
121st Birth Anniversary of Supreme Court Chief Justice Jose Abad Santos
PRESIDENT Manuel A. Roxas paid high tribute to Chief Justice Jose Abad Santos when, at the memorial held at the Supreme Court on December 2, 1945, he said: "When the history of the stirring days of World War II is written, the name of Chief Justice Abad Santos will rank with those of Rizal, Bonifacio, and Quezon for his unsullied honor, his unswerving patriotism, and his unselfish devotion to the great principles for which the war was fought."
129th Birth Anniversary of Doña Aurora Aragon Quezon
AN article in Time published on May 9, 1949, a week after her tragic death, described the First Lady of the Philippine Commonwealth thus, "Gentle Aurora Aragon Quezon was a well-loved figure in the Philippines. The wife of the late Manuel L. Quezon, first President of the Philippines, she had long led a quiet, austere life devoted to charities and the rearing of her family. When the President died, she turned down the pension awarded her by the government, so that the money might be used for needier war windows and orphans. Even the Communist-led Hukbalahaps, who spread terror through the hills of Central Luzon, could find no word to say against Doña Aurora."
28th Foundation Day of the province of Aurora: ‘Sa Pagsulong ng Aurora, Mamamayan Ikaw ang Bida’
THE Province of Aurora is surrounded by the Pacific Ocean in the east, Quirino, Nueva Ecija, and Nueva Vizcaya in the west, Quezon in the south, and Isabela in the north.
Business Beat
I JOINED delegates from 17 countries in Africa and Asia who participated in the "Windows of Opportunity: A Symposium on SME Financing in Africa "held in Dar El Salaam, from the 13th to the 16th of February, which concluded with a simple but colorful closing ceremony held at the Kilimanjaro Hotel Kempinsky in the distinguished presence of the Hon Basil P Mramba, Minister for Industry, Trade and Marketing of the United Republic of Tanzania and Prof. Ephraim Kamuntu, Minister of State for Industry and Technology, Ministry of Tourism, Trade and Industry of the Republic of Uganda.
Second Thoughts
DILI – Travellers to Timor Leste can go via Darwin or Bali. For SEAMEO nationals, Darwin is clearly the inferior option. An overnight stay in Jakarta or Denpasar will get them to Dili in a shorter time and at a lower cost.
The healing of a boy with a demon
Mark 9:14-29
Never extinguished
OUR love, for God and country, starts with words. It should not stop there, however. It has to be shown in deeds. And those deeds need not be limited to the dramatic, heroic, very occasional, few and far in-between ones. They should extend to those done as we undertake our normal duties in the normal circumstances of our everyday life.
If you’re Erap, you’re ‘special’
FORMER President Estrada’s petition before the Sandiganbayan to free him so he can campaign for opposition candidates is not expected to get anywhere.
Campaigns on different planes
IT will be a political campaign that will deviate entirely from the rabble-rousing partisan drive that some disdain. That, in essence, is what the administration’s Team Unity senatorial campaign is all about.
Broken melody
"The most difficult secret for a man to keep is his own opinion of himself." — Marcel Pagnol
NPA exacts poll fees, watches tally
NPA is charging senatorial candidates P500,000 for campaign permit, congressional candidates P300,000, gubernatorial candidates P400,000 and barangay officials, P30,000.
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