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The Absurdity of Online-Classes Response

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by Ronald Michael Quijano, LPT We human beings have specialized ourselves in inventing tools that can perform our task more efficient and convenient. Since the dawn of civilizations, we have designed tools that made our jobs easier. Although technology can be considered as a handy and practical companion for business owners, the workforce is under threat. Since industrial technology, routine jobs have been superseded by machines. Also, as technology progress, more individuals are losing jobs. For instance, a person making stone tools will be replaced with those who are making copper tools. Over time, those who are making copper tools will be replaced with those who offer iron tools.  This is the reality where everyone must prepare themselves. The problem is that it's happening faster. Self-driving AI cars are now intimidating to taxi and delivery drivers. Newer medical machines that can read diagnoses and detect such efficiently are a threat to doctors. Automated machines that cook...

Science as a Framework of Thought for Society

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by Ronald Michael Quijano Science seems to be passive to most learners when it comes to its utility in leadership. The current curriculum seems to limit its scope in technical means. The wisdom and process of science is an enormous analogy of a healthy way of thinking, not just effective in its own field but also to society. Simply look at how our community is fashioned. It is clear that the majority of leaders and citizens hunger for authority but never wisdom. Opinionated but not informed. Powerful but not competent. We became short-sighted for everything we do. Our interests became limited to whatever satisfies our self-indulgence, on things that will give us more power, and on the matters that continuously make ourselves feel so special. It is evident to the current COVID-19 pandemic that the majority of our leaders do not listen to science. Their concern is not after the truth but after their image and self-worth. Science must promote its way of thinking.  In the Philippines, ...

Privatize Religious Education

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    By Ronald Michael Quijano, LPT      Education - as defined in different well-known dictionaries - is a systematic way of instructing a particular subject or field in which they should integrate with other learning experiences to apply it in reality to make progress and contribution to society. The definition may differ to some aspect, but the essence of its meaning and application are under the same roof. Education is the action or process of teaching someone especially in a school, college, or university; it somehow refers to what we know as formal education but the very essence of its definition stays within the context of being academic. Education is teaching the knowledge, skill, and understanding that you get from attending school, college, or university; which pertains that a student should be taught that they have the right to decide what to think, how to think, and why should they think. Religious education tends to give them absolute underst...