The proposition is not that simple, it needs more than the simple fixing of entanglements, it needs another column to be written on its behalf, it needs more attention.
Raising the bar in education needs more than the lip service and the rhetoric, it needs a little pain from the fiscal supply chain, it needs political will and open-mindedness.
Karol Mark Yee EDCOM 2 Chairperson, in an interview proceeded to discuss the recent encounter with the Vietnamese Education Minister, Dr. Yee asked, what is the secret of the great performance and higher educational status of Vietnam? It was short of asking, why we are behind a country which was for most part under the boots of battles and prolong wars, one was against a superpower. One country that barely speaks fluent English and are most timid in encounters with World Leaders, why is that they have been better off than the Philippines in Standardized Tests, in PISA Rankings.
Dr. Yee asked, what is the secret of the great performance and higher educational status of Vietnam? The Vietnamese Secretary for Education answered; The Filipino Teachers!
The reality hit hard, like a punch. And it hurts, what was anticipated as a formula for which their success was built, was the simple unleashing of the power from a Filipino Teacher. Whom, for lack of better choice domestically had to go out of the country so the children can live and the family will never be hungry!
Thus, among all the tidbits and the large stories, this story is the simple yet encompassing paradoxical thing. For our Education standards and the uplifting of our results, the Teacher is key. We have to love them and let them stay, or disregard them and they become secret weapons abroad.
We need to increase their salaries.
