Unfolding

The troublesome PBB segment is already showing the problems we have in our country. Many of our fellow Filipinos (both young and old) do not see the significance of history partly because of the lack of educational rigor in our academies, and add a network of disinformation into the picture, you have an uprooting and mudding of significant collective memories. Moreover, I viewed the PBB segment as an alarmist and concerned critic. What we saw can be raised to the level of grave educational and social concern and can also be seen as the odd “trivialization” of history. Let me start with being an alarmist. Undeniably, there are gaps in the familiarity of both the distant and not so distant past which is evident among the youngsters in the show and with the students I come across in class. If the youth fails to be at least familiar with the presumed “basics”, there is indeed a huge gap in the rearing. It is as if those students fail to do even the basics of arithmetic or linguistic expr...