this letter-sender needs a reality check!
that madapaking madapaka!
*kulo-dugo*
ang gago nya! he must have lived a sheltered life. *starts to pity...* tangina!
shut up and go back to your books?! wala ba syang natutunan nung martial law ni marcos?! pucha, kung wala yung suporta ng mga estudyante noon, pilay ang laban against marcos and his cronies. nde sa pagbubuhat ng sariling bangko, pero totoo naman di ba?
You students rally for causes that are self-dooming. You students help destabilize and embarrass this country that you think you love so much. --To each his own, sir. One man's causes and his reasons for them are his business. As for destabilization and embarrassment, students are fighting to change a government that is an embarrassment, and by the way things are going, "destabilization" now seems to be the only radical way to shake the government's corrupt foundation. Tough love. And please, "destabilization" is another highfaluting word the government is wearing out just so it could sow a kind of fear that goes with new complex-sounding words that is supposed to give unwarranted alarm.
You students seem to care more about politics and rallies than acquiring the more important skills to help you get good jobs when you graduate. --First of all, where are these "good jobs" that you speak of, Mr. Guiterrez? Hmm? Where is that? Abroad? My point, exactly. Even if we study so hard and acquire those "more important skills", heck, even if we all graduate summa cum laude, those skills and knowledge won't always guarantee us a "good job". Here or anywhere else. That's why students are caring more about politics and rallies, that's why students involve themselves in the ins and outs of the country - to have a government that listens to the needs of the future generation of leaders, of movers and shakers, of scientists and innovators. To have a government that would provide jobs for the courses we graduate from. Basically, to have a reason to stay and proudly say that this country is our own.
You students can't even speak good English anymore. You can't even write a coherent sentence in English. In fact, when I interview job applicants, out of 60 I am lucky to find one who can speak decent English without the heavy accent. --Just because one can't speak "good English" doesn't mean that he is less of a person, that he is incompetent. And what authority do you have to judge communication skills? Were you an English major? Did you undergo English accent training, and were you certified? If speaking your brand of "decent English" is an important criteria in you hiring potential employees, you could actually be sued for discrimination. Unless you are hiring for a call center, then you should not judge a person's background, breeding, and education just because he can't speak your "decent English". And for heaven's sake, have a little national pride for your mother tongue, you bigot.
On top of all this, you seem to think you know everything under the sun, that's why you students involve yourselves in matters that you should stay away from: politics. --No, sir, we don't know everything under the sun. Yet. And even that isn't a valid reason for us students to 'involve yourselves in matters that you should stay away from'. So why do we involve ourselves? Please see 2nd argument. Tough love.
You students are becoming the next generation of the same sort of people you hate the most: traditional politicians, whose sole purpose in life is to not do anything except argue with whatever current administration. --While your idea of a traditional politician (trapo) is only a part of a more explicit definition, as a student, I seriously beg to disagree on your comparison of us students to them. I, personally, resent that. Although I know I can't speak for every student involved in politics and rallies, I also know that being involved isn't going to seal our fate in becoming trapos. Being involved in the way these students you address chose isn't being on the road to the sort of politician damnation you imply.
All this nonsense makes me believe that you students don't have enough assignments or schoolwork. Are your schools second-rate? My former students certainly didn't even have a social life while I kept them busy at school with their projects. --Well, sir, this 'nonsense' is shaking the government out of its corrupted stupor. You may have the idea of academic delinquency among radical students, but look around and think again. There are students who have become professionals in their own right while fighting for their cause. And having a "life" is a matter of priorities and time management on the part of the student. It's relative.
Study hard, that's why you're in school. You're in school because you still have lots to learn. --So shutting up and going back to books is an assurance of "learning" more rather than, say, applying an contributing one's knowledge to life and the society one lives in? To shut up is to render our education redundant. If education is to be deemed redundant, what would a teacher like you be then? Also redundant.
If you help destabilize this country, it is your families that could end up losing their jobs. You students are helping scare away the few foreign investors that this country needs so you can have jobs when you graduate. Don't you just hate it when the investors end up in Thailand, China or Singapore because the political climate there is so much more stable? --Don't single out students in having a hand in "helping scare away" the foreign investors, and please, don't play the pity card with the families. Haven't you studied philosophical non sequitur? Ad misericordiam, sir. It shows utterly bad form. Obvious political and economic instability, the rampant corruption, that's what's scaring them away. How could they have confidence in setting up their businesses here when they have all that red tape and bureaucracy to put up with? Ever thought of that? And besides, our "dependence" on foreign investors themselves shows how weak our government already is in not being able to find local legal means to sustain the country. And those countries you mentioned? No country is safe from progress, radical or otherwise. A country's welfare rests on the hands of its government and its people. If the people aren't safe nor satisfied, something's amiss in their government. It's the people's right then to question the system.
Think! That's why God put brains in your skulls. Use them. Stop acting like a bunch of freshmen. --We ARE thinking. We ARE using our brains. But I'm wondering if you're using yours, Mr. Guiterrez. Did you when you wrote this "essay"? Don't set yourself up by insulting our intelligence. And, by God, we owe Him for our brains.
If I were your teacher, I'd flunk all of you out of your seats just for not knowing what on earth you are doing to this country... --But you ARE NOT our teacher. Tough.
... and to your folks who send you to school so you can do something positive with your lives when you graduate. --Again, don't play the pity card. There are actually whole families who support each other in political affairs, students, siblings and parents alike. Don't belittle their efforts. To do something positive is to move forward, and for us to do that is to demand a change from the brittle and obsolete system of government.
So, shut up and go back to your books. --We won't, but you should.
*kulo-dugo*
ang gago nya! he must have lived a sheltered life. *starts to pity...* tangina!
shut up and go back to your books?! wala ba syang natutunan nung martial law ni marcos?! pucha, kung wala yung suporta ng mga estudyante noon, pilay ang laban against marcos and his cronies. nde sa pagbubuhat ng sariling bangko, pero totoo naman di ba?
You students rally for causes that are self-dooming. You students help destabilize and embarrass this country that you think you love so much. --To each his own, sir. One man's causes and his reasons for them are his business. As for destabilization and embarrassment, students are fighting to change a government that is an embarrassment, and by the way things are going, "destabilization" now seems to be the only radical way to shake the government's corrupt foundation. Tough love. And please, "destabilization" is another highfaluting word the government is wearing out just so it could sow a kind of fear that goes with new complex-sounding words that is supposed to give unwarranted alarm.
You students seem to care more about politics and rallies than acquiring the more important skills to help you get good jobs when you graduate. --First of all, where are these "good jobs" that you speak of, Mr. Guiterrez? Hmm? Where is that? Abroad? My point, exactly. Even if we study so hard and acquire those "more important skills", heck, even if we all graduate summa cum laude, those skills and knowledge won't always guarantee us a "good job". Here or anywhere else. That's why students are caring more about politics and rallies, that's why students involve themselves in the ins and outs of the country - to have a government that listens to the needs of the future generation of leaders, of movers and shakers, of scientists and innovators. To have a government that would provide jobs for the courses we graduate from. Basically, to have a reason to stay and proudly say that this country is our own.
You students can't even speak good English anymore. You can't even write a coherent sentence in English. In fact, when I interview job applicants, out of 60 I am lucky to find one who can speak decent English without the heavy accent. --Just because one can't speak "good English" doesn't mean that he is less of a person, that he is incompetent. And what authority do you have to judge communication skills? Were you an English major? Did you undergo English accent training, and were you certified? If speaking your brand of "decent English" is an important criteria in you hiring potential employees, you could actually be sued for discrimination. Unless you are hiring for a call center, then you should not judge a person's background, breeding, and education just because he can't speak your "decent English". And for heaven's sake, have a little national pride for your mother tongue, you bigot.
On top of all this, you seem to think you know everything under the sun, that's why you students involve yourselves in matters that you should stay away from: politics. --No, sir, we don't know everything under the sun. Yet. And even that isn't a valid reason for us students to 'involve yourselves in matters that you should stay away from'. So why do we involve ourselves? Please see 2nd argument. Tough love.
You students are becoming the next generation of the same sort of people you hate the most: traditional politicians, whose sole purpose in life is to not do anything except argue with whatever current administration. --While your idea of a traditional politician (trapo) is only a part of a more explicit definition, as a student, I seriously beg to disagree on your comparison of us students to them. I, personally, resent that. Although I know I can't speak for every student involved in politics and rallies, I also know that being involved isn't going to seal our fate in becoming trapos. Being involved in the way these students you address chose isn't being on the road to the sort of politician damnation you imply.
All this nonsense makes me believe that you students don't have enough assignments or schoolwork. Are your schools second-rate? My former students certainly didn't even have a social life while I kept them busy at school with their projects. --Well, sir, this 'nonsense' is shaking the government out of its corrupted stupor. You may have the idea of academic delinquency among radical students, but look around and think again. There are students who have become professionals in their own right while fighting for their cause. And having a "life" is a matter of priorities and time management on the part of the student. It's relative.
Study hard, that's why you're in school. You're in school because you still have lots to learn. --So shutting up and going back to books is an assurance of "learning" more rather than, say, applying an contributing one's knowledge to life and the society one lives in? To shut up is to render our education redundant. If education is to be deemed redundant, what would a teacher like you be then? Also redundant.
If you help destabilize this country, it is your families that could end up losing their jobs. You students are helping scare away the few foreign investors that this country needs so you can have jobs when you graduate. Don't you just hate it when the investors end up in Thailand, China or Singapore because the political climate there is so much more stable? --Don't single out students in having a hand in "helping scare away" the foreign investors, and please, don't play the pity card with the families. Haven't you studied philosophical non sequitur? Ad misericordiam, sir. It shows utterly bad form. Obvious political and economic instability, the rampant corruption, that's what's scaring them away. How could they have confidence in setting up their businesses here when they have all that red tape and bureaucracy to put up with? Ever thought of that? And besides, our "dependence" on foreign investors themselves shows how weak our government already is in not being able to find local legal means to sustain the country. And those countries you mentioned? No country is safe from progress, radical or otherwise. A country's welfare rests on the hands of its government and its people. If the people aren't safe nor satisfied, something's amiss in their government. It's the people's right then to question the system.
Think! That's why God put brains in your skulls. Use them. Stop acting like a bunch of freshmen. --We ARE thinking. We ARE using our brains. But I'm wondering if you're using yours, Mr. Guiterrez. Did you when you wrote this "essay"? Don't set yourself up by insulting our intelligence. And, by God, we owe Him for our brains.
If I were your teacher, I'd flunk all of you out of your seats just for not knowing what on earth you are doing to this country... --But you ARE NOT our teacher. Tough.
... and to your folks who send you to school so you can do something positive with your lives when you graduate. --Again, don't play the pity card. There are actually whole families who support each other in political affairs, students, siblings and parents alike. Don't belittle their efforts. To do something positive is to move forward, and for us to do that is to demand a change from the brittle and obsolete system of government.
So, shut up and go back to your books. --We won't, but you should.