Are We Educated? The Missed Education Of The Filipinos!

Today, in chaotic Philippines, we find extremely easy to criticize, cuss and/or condemn. When confronted with negative news, we find extremely difficult, if not impossible, to contemplate or consider alternatives.

So, as a teacher, I continue to Inspire for the Positives!

This article follows my immediately previous one, “Rewriting Albert Einstein’s Equation E=mc2 Into frankEinstein's fE=mc2 – For The Infinitesimal Energy Of Love!” (26 Oct 2024, The Editor In Chief, blogspot.com). FrankEinstein: fE = mc2, where m = meanings and c2 = creativity multiplied by genius. (Play of words; reality: my genius is creative thinking.)

Now then, for the infinitesimal energy of Love, at least Like, I teacher prescribe that our Philippine educational institutions from Grade School to Grad School teach and strengthen our individual human multiple intelligences (MI), or smarts, as conceptualized by Harvard psychology professor Howard Gardner:

1. Bodily-Kinesthetic Intelligence (“Body Smart”)
2. Creative Intelligence (“Thinking Smart”), added by FAH
3. Existential Intelligence (“Life Smart”)
4. Interpersonal Intelligence (“People Smart”)
5. Intrapersonal Intelligence (“Self Smart”)
6. Mathematical-Logical Intelligence (“Number/Reasoning Smart”)
7. Musical Intelligence (“Music Smart”)
8. Naturalist Intelligence (“Nature Smart”)
9. Spatial Intelligence (“Image Smart”)
10. Verbal-Linguistic Intelligence (“Word Smart”).

Great! There is a hidden intelligence or genius in each of us that is ours for the learning, strengthening, using for good. So, instead of practicing only criticism, using “Mathematical-Logical Intelligence” (“Number/Reasoning Smart”), when confronted by a negative event, incident or information, we can turn on our genius and be productive and pleased by our thoughts and actions!
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How great thou art, Multiple Intelligences!

JAQ, my friend moves and has been moved by so many and so much negative developments that he wishes I would write and write about them: corruption in government, gargantuan failures in leadership, nepotism, political dynasties, power-hungry politicians or non-politicians – whatnots.

Not for me anymore the negativism, “an attitude of mind marked by skepticism especially about nearly everything affirmed by others” (Merriam-Webster Dictionary, merriam-webster.com). I am not suggesting that we end our friendship, only that you end your Negativism, my friend!

Filipino politicians, the likes of whom you can read about in the media anytime, preach and practice what they learned from earlier politicians of the Philippines. Miseducation!

Meanwhile, I have been preaching counter to the negative that is being objected to or rejected by many, especially the vociferous “Opposition” and loud-mouth activists. In my favored area of writing, which is Agriculture, you can say that I favor the genius of Naturalist Intelligence, and thus I have been inviting people to think beyond the current agriculture to shift to “Regenerative Agriculture” practices – (1) Cover Cropping, (2) Crop Rotation, (3) Farm Crops + Tree Crops (Agroforestry), (4) Green Manuring, (5) Intercropping, (6) Multiple Cropping, (7) No-Till Farming, (8) Organic Fertilization, (9) Ratooning, (10) Rotational Grazing, (11) “Three Sisters” Planting, (12) Trap Cropping, (13) Trash Mulching.

Problem: That Gardner’s Theory of MI is not being studied/utilized in the Philippines, from Grade School to Grad School – sorry to say, but our educators are not paying attention to genius!@517

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