Given that our people have given us the gift of our high school education, us PSHS scholars should be able to give back to our country in whatever way we can, whenever we can. You don’t need to wait for the future, to earn a degree, or to get a job in order to contribute to everyday life. Whether you become a scientist, an engineer, a doctor, a lawyer, a businessman, or even a film director or musician, the point is that you excel in what you do and make sure that it makes a difference in the lives of the people around you. If you’re a doctor, make sure you really do help make people’s lives healthier and not just make money off them. If you’re a film director, make sure that your projects are of substance and make your viewers think of how THEY themselves can help out our country.
In short, it’s not WHAT you end up doing, it’s how you do it – with conviction, with passion, with sincerity 
March 6, 2007 at 3:47 am
Science and Technology is a broad concept.
A key question is:
Even in the field of Science and Technology, is the PSHS training our scientifically-inclined cream of the crop to be simply cogs in the wheels of science and technology – for export within the current diaspora framework of government, or should not the training, of our scientists, be towards owning the wheels and run scientific enterprises to develop our country?
Is our science education patterned after the nursing and other health carreers, i.e. that would be good only for the health professionals if they are able to go out of the country?
Take note that our PSHS scholars are also not even allowed much less encouraged to study in the more advanced countries to learn things that can obviously be beneficial to our country – for the stupid paranoia that these scholars will not use this knowledge for the country. Hence the stupid penalty for even individual scholars (even privately funded ones – who are asked to refund their tuition fees if they go out of the country) to seek further studies and knowledge abroad.
Remember the pensionados and then the AFS and other exchange scholarships implemented by past governments which harvested future leaders for the country.
I like the comment about broadening the possibilities of PSHS graduate placement to include even politics. There are so few politicians from the scientific field. Hence, no representation, no voice and hence very poor development of science and technology. Leaving governance to non scientists leaves Philippine Science and Technology to scientifically incompetent nincompoops. It is like letting lawyers take care of the health field, or doctors taking care of law, or letting nurses do carpentry, and civil engineers do nursing.
March 6, 2007 at 11:56 am
Thank you very much Mr. David!
Sir, how did you hear of my blog?
By the way, sir, please read the second part of my latest post, Different Issues.
Again, thank you sir!
March 6, 2007 at 10:56 pm
“Take note that our PSHS scholars are also not even allowed much less encouraged to study in the more advanced countries”
We are actually allowed to study abroad. A lot of my batchmates study abroad.
March 7, 2007 at 1:20 pm
Thanks for the information, Mr. Wayne…