Nature and Purpose of Education
By Christopher Ryan Maboloc, PhD Modern schools are like factories. Schools produce doctors, engineers, nurses, etc. The curriculum is the operating manual. The central figure is no longer that young individual who is in search of knowledge. The emphasis has been policy, rules and regulations, outcomes or measurable outputs, reducing everything into some product or tool. Students no longer wonder. They are far more concerned about their grades, or in the case of schools, rankings. . Where did all of this start? In 1979, the former secretary of education in the country talked about developing students to become productive citizens. This means that what we are fashioning out of the classroom are the future labor force of industries. But what this means for elite schools is actually more appalling. We are creating future oppressors who, as drivers of the globalized economy, will be taking advantage of the powerless. The infatuation with outcomes simply means that we have reduced the univ