The Boy Who Stutters

What's the purpose of Education? Is it to cure our innocence and ignorance, or just to turn the former into the latter? As I age each day, this idea has sprouted from the reality that life has offered me. I was taught that the main purpose of education is to cure the ignorance of people, to turn innocence into action, and to produce functional people for society. We can all agree with that, I hope. But what if education is just turning one's innocence into ignorance? I once saw a poster that somehow illustrates how education shapes people, especially children. The image shows a line of pupils and a teacher who shapes the round minds of the kids into a box using scissors. It wants to convey a strong message. The way I interpreted it was rather cynical. Education limits the human mind, or it is more right to say that school does. I am not against education, I say that everyone should have one, even a little bit of it; I probably just criticize how school systems work. Are t

BATANG BATA KA PA Dulang may isang yugto Akda ni Ace Meelan M. Balbarez (Pebrero 15, 2017) TAUHAN ANNE       – 19, panganay sa magkakapatid, matalino, conservative LYKA        – 18, pangalwa sa magkakapatid, matalino, insecure HAZZEL – 17, ikalto sa magkakapatid, maarte, spoiled brat DANIEL   – 16, bunso sa magkakapatid, masunurin, RONALD        – 55, ama ng pamilya Reyes, matutukso ng temptasyon ELENA     – 54, ina ng pamilya Reyes, may sakit sa bato ERIKA      – 54, kambal ni Elena, GILLIAN   – 50, kapatid nina Elena at Erika, CEDRICK– 50, asawa ni Gillian IZA            – 19, kaibigan ni Anne MADEL    – 18, kaibigan ni Lyka         WALTER – 18, kasintahan ni Hazzel LEVI         – 16, kaibigan ni Daniel VINCE      – 16, kaibigan ni Daniel JAKE        – 56, katrabaho ni Ronald BETH       – 30, katrabaho ni Ronald JONA       – kasambahay ng pamilyang Reyes  TAGPUAN             Tatakbo ang kwento sa tahanan ng Pamilya Re