Some of my classmates, those who always made the list, would dedicate their time acing the exams or creating the most extravagant outputs. I was in the top section, and the competition for honors was intense. I recall my experience in junior high school. Because our curriculum places more weight on subjects such as Math, Science, and English, you are convinced that Arts, PE, and Social Studies, among others, are merely peripheral subjects.
However, if you’re terrible at Art, or Physical Education, or Social Studies, the meanest reaction you can get from classmates is a mere side-eye or a laugh. You feel ashamed whenever you forget what an algebraic expression is.
When you’re bad at Math, the curriculum finds a way to guilt-trip you. If I was good at Math, I would not have failed my General Mathematics in 2016 and retaken it the following semester. You could bet I could never solve a mathematical problem beyond the basic operations, even if you’d bribed me with a million pesos. But what are these skills to begin with?įor a decade, I had been flunking my Math classes. Students like myself are equipped with skills necessary for the order to thrive. It complements the labor demands of the global economy, an order that fattens the coffers of capitalists and puts underdeveloped countries like ours at the slump. The education system in the country is neoliberal in framework. It even leaves one asking - is there rest in this kind of education? To put it another way, students are conditioned to behave like automatons for most of their waking life. And two: in this machine, we are cogs running non-stop.
One: our education system is a brutal machine. When my university’s reading break ended, I was confronted with two realizations.
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