Originally Posted by grahamw48
My experience was that in many areas the Phils schools were in advance of the British system, and certainly stricter...including giving lots of homework.
The MORAL education was FAR superior to here.
In some ways I'd rather that my kids had had their entire education in the Phils, merely because of the family and community values that are taught there ...so much Graham. Hitherto, I always seem to have been a "lone voice" in praising the merits of the Phils Education System. I know instinctively, it hurts my wife's feelings to hear of it being lambasted unjustly
... because she and her colleagues at Panabo High School in Mindanao were totally dedicated to teaching their pupils to the highest standards of achievement - both scholastically and morally. Indeed, Myrna led a contingent of her senior charges from Region 11 to win the coveted STEP [Student Entrepreneur of the Philippines] Award on at least two separate occasions during the early 2000s. I mention this - not in a boastful manner, but - simply to put things in their proper perspective for the benefit of the doubter(s) ... whom I hope will take note.
