As students, what is your personal opinion about the education system of the Philippines?
Personally, there are a lot of things na kailangan pa natin maimprove when it comes to the education system, especially in this generation where critical thinking is much important than we think it is sometimes. Sobrang malala na ang educational crisis dito sa Pilipinas, and I think its a worthy subject to talk about. Since hindi mo lang ito makikita sa report, in real life may maeencounter ka talaga. Some students are lacking behind in 3-5 years than what they are expected to know for their grade, and that is very alarming. If you remember a report last year about 19.1M graduates being functionally illiterate, this is somehow another reflection of our crumbling system.
Don't even get me started on the various systems that act as obstacles when it comes to this subject. Can a child go to school hungry? How will they learn anything? Floods and earthquakes that disrupt learning every single time it strikes, the way that this system teaches students not to learn, but to just memorize it and move on. The lack of materials and resources hindi lang sa mga estudyante, pati na ang mga educators. A lot of students don't practice real-life application, or they never understood it at all. What's sad is that, we can't even blame them kasi ganon na ang reality natin every single day of our student lives.
Tapos kapag graduated na, magttrabaho ang iba sa mga low minimum-wage earning jobs that don't sustain them to the point that some chose to drop out early para mas maaga sila sa career nila, because some people see it as a waste of time dahil sa sobrang mahal na rin ng mga bilihin dito. Students sacrifice so much for this system yet the system does not give what we deserve most of the time.
It makes me sad on how behind and outdated this system is. Everyone deserves a right to have an education, a good one at that. Pero tinalo tayo ng sistema. Countless changes have been made to this same system yet they forget about the curriculum. All of this just proves that education is the most important thing a person can have. The more you know, the more you realize. You get that awareness that while you are choosing your own future, the nation also puts its future in your hands.
Ayun lang muna ang masasabi ko, since I know there are a lot more points to be made on this topic by a lot more people, and sana we can all share our opinions on this. I hope everyone has had a good day, let us become more aware and vigilant since tayo nga ang sinasabing mga pag-asa ng bayan.