ACEPoolPlayer
7/23/2013 09:30 EST
Hey what's going on? A few days of nothing to read while having my morning coffee. Ok, I'll start a new post... Anyone who has children under the age of 20 living in the Philippines or planning on living in the Philippines listen up. Pre school (2+) is great and relatively inexpensive outside of Metro Manila. In Manila it can get costly plus the pain in the neck of fighting traffic to drop off or pick up you kids. I think the Maria Montessor schools are good. They follow a wordwide method. Education up to around age 8 or 10 is good in the Philippines. I guess International schools would be better with foreign teachers (assuming they have some that are really well qualified) but they are generally very expensive. The problem with Philippines education after the age of 10 or so, they rely too much on memorization. In the Western world I think it'smuch more listen, understand and remember. In the Philippines in many courses (even right through Medical School) the method is listen and memorize. During tests instead of understanding the 10 reason for....whatever. The question on the exam would be inumerate the 10... I could be a sentence with two words missing and you have to fill in the blanks. I had many classmates that could memorize anything but two months later they couldn't remember it because they didn't understand what they were memorizing. That's the system. It goes around and around because the schools hire graduates from their schools that were taught the same method. It's never the most qualified. It's who you know.
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ACEPoolPlayer
7/23/2013 10:45 EST
Is it possible for someone to be very good and successful being educated in the Philippines? Of course!! Today in the U.S. , I'm not sure about the rest of the world, home study / educated is a big thing. Philippine education relies on U.S. books. So it's not only what you learn in school but what you do on your own time as well. There are many successful Doctor's, Dentist, Veterinarians, Nurses and people in many other fields in the U.S. and other countries that were educated in the Philippines.
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trappedinhell
7/23/2013 15:27 EST
Good topic to start Ace. Yeah, I've noticed that too about Phil. education - more emphasis on memorization, without fully understanding the principles behind the fields or concepts they're learning.. One drawback of this system is it kills the innovation & creative skills of the student. All he knows are textbooks ideas, but when it comes on coming up with practical ideas tailored for Phil. daily live - zero. That's why there's a Pinoy insider joke: "Nose Bleed" - when an expat explains something complicated on the practical thngs in life.
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ACEPoolPlayer
7/23/2013 17:42 EST
Question? Does trapped in hell refer to where you now live in the PI, the PI in general or your past? Well I hope you found a way out. Anyway excellent point. The system does limit the creative mind. Students are tought to obey and memorize rather than to think. Possibly a good reason why other than the boomerang and yoyo nothing else was ever invented in the Philippines. No great Authors exist from the 20 or 21st century. In other Asian countries electronic brands were produced, car companies were started etc.... I think Martial Law under Marcos from 1972-1981 is also a reason minds became stagnant. During that 10 year period in time most counties were rapidly progressing. In the Philippines during that time everyone was scarred to even talk. I remember being told, be careful what you say even to a taxi driver.
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trappedinhell
7/26/2013 13:57 EST
@ACEPoolPlayer - trappedinhell doesn't refer to the Phil. country nor any part of it. Although it refers to my present situation and the country where I'm at right now; which I'd rather not name. I really want to go and retire in Phil. (somewhere in the rural areas outside Subic, Olongapo) - but a lot of obstacles (situation & people) prevents me from going there . On the surface the country where I'm at right now looks okey, eg.: comfort & convenience; but if you look closely the economy is a disaster, high unemployment rate, high taxes, democracy on the surface but corporatocracy underneath. It has somewhat become a police state, but through media controlled manipulation, the general public is not aware of these things. Thus my callsign in expatexchange. Please do not try to guess what country I'm talking about. I hope this answers your question ACE.
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ACEPoolPlayer
2/24/2014 08:04 EST
It's certainly possible to be successful while being educated in the Philippines. Most of the text books are the same ones being used in the U.S. The key factor is what the child does at home when he isn't in school. My eldest son who lives in the Philippines with my first wife recently took his SAT. He is graduating from high school in a few months. It's the same SAT test that is given everywhere. His score was 2150 which put him in less than the top 1%, He has applied to Berkley, and several Ivy League schools. He has had interviews from representatives from Brown and Yale within the last month in the Philippines. No one that I know in the high school in our area of upstate New York has ever scored that high and this is a decent school district.
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