SHOOTING STRAIGHT By Bobit S. Avila
(The Philippine Star) | Updated March 26, 2013 - 12:00am
I got a lengthy response on my column last Saturday where we discussed the problems of our educational system in this country from Ishmael Calata who is a former Master of the 4th Degree of the K of C in the National Capital Region, where their guiding principles is Patriotism. Here’s his email in full.
“Good afternoon, Mr. Avila. In your column today, the fact that only 949 out of 5,343 lawyer-wannabes passed the last bar examination makes me throw up. It is a very embarrassing news that people around the world have now found an additional reason to laugh at us, Filipinos! I feel sad about this. It is a pathognomonic sign of the very poor educational system that ours now has deteriorated into! And one of the biggest reasons why we have such results in bar and board examinations is the very poor English proficiency of our college graduates.
Do they understand the questions in the exams? Do they have the capability to answer well those questions? Obviously most of them don’t. There was a time when we were a proud nation known as the third largest English speaking people in the world. Students from many parts of Asia came to us to learn the language. But, sorry to say that since our “nationalist” politicians kuno enacted the law that made us turn into the vernacular as the medium of education, English speaking here has become so low that most high school graduates cannot even make a good sentence in English.
The situation has even been exacerbated by TV and movie shows personalities who, as scripted, deride in jest one who speaks English. Example: Among a bunch of billiard personalities doing a commercial about a well-known beer, the second most popular one in the group chided the one who spoke broken English, thus, “Pa ingles ingles ka pa dyan…!” which made all of them break into a ridiculous laughter!
And so, the practice in English speaking has become a shameful thing now within hearing distance of others especially among our youth. Because of this, very soon, we will lose our edge over other Asians in the supply of manpower to the developed countries. Quo vadis, Philippines? Ishmael Calata.”
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