No Student Life Could Be Boring, High School Or College, Learning With Multiple Intelligences!

Well, first of all, our high schools and colleges in the Philippines have to learn Multiple Intelligences (MI) before they can teach it to their students. (gettyimages.com, sg.images.search.yahoo.com)

Let me be your inspiration. I am already 85 years old. All by myself, I can type, write, edit, desktop publish, and blog using the personal computer (PC) desktop or laptop – mind you, I taught myself all of those skills! I am a teacher, And truth to tell, I learned all those digital skills by myself along the way, starting Innocents Day 28 Dec 1980, when I was already 40 years old. When a girl showed me a manual of Wordstar 1, I began typing the whole thing and copied it on my diskette so I did not have to bother her again.

Not that Filipino teachers are dull but that the subjects they teach are dull, each one of them – they contain no inner challenges to the innate multiple intelligencies of students – challenges from head to foot. Philippine schools, from high school to college, continue to ignore the wisdom of Harvard psychology professor Howard Gardner who in 1991 presented his Theory of Multiple Intelligences (MI). Simply considering the list will convince anyone that there is much wisdom in MI:

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”), and
10. Verbal-Linguistic Intelligence (“Word Smart”).

“Discovering Hidden Talents” is how to make education exciting in the Philippines – from high school to college!

Here is “PH College Courses: Heavy On General Education, Lacking In Practical Training – EdCom 2 (Senate of the Philippines, 19th Congress, 28 May 2025, web.senate.gov.ph):

Philippine college programs place too much emphasis on general education (GE) courses and fall short in offering internships and hands-on training, according to discussions during a House Committee on Basic Education hearing today.

Dr Edizon Fermin, Chairperson of the CHEd Technical Panel for Teacher Education, highlighted the imbalance in the current higher education curriculum. "Currently (Sir/Madam, the size of) GE (general education) component (of our higher ed, it turns our), 42% of credit structure is GE. (It turns out, all of graduates are) minor in GE.”

Echoing these concerns, EdCom 2 Executive Director Karol Mark Yee cited initial findings from a Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS) research, noting that Philippine college programs exceed international norms. The study shows that across the board, college courses in the Philippines exceed requirements in ASEAN, Australia, and EU, with most bachelors programs being “GE-heavy, internship-light.". This means that Filipino students end up with dozens more units compared to other countries", Yee said.

"CHEd and DepEd should work together in providing a list that considers what students will need in college while also giving them leeway for their interests," Yee said

Whatever – let the multiple intelligences permeate high school education in the Philippines!@517

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