Cielito & Pilar HabitoCahbriba Alternative School Foundation
Los Baños, Laguna
Cielito & Pilar HabitoCahbriba Alternative School Foundation
Los Baños, Laguna
OverviewOverview
•What’s wrong with Philippine education?
•Cahbriba’s Life Learning System– Life Learning System– The Learning Community– Towards Socially Responsible
Enterprise
•What’s wrong with Philippine education?
•Cahbriba’s Life Learning System– Life Learning System– The Learning Community– Towards Socially Responsible
Enterprise
What’s wrong with Philippine education?
What’s wrong with Philippine education?
Our education system has: Widened gaps in society
―Skewed access to quality education―Biased for certain intelligences
What’s wrong with Philippine education?
Our education system has: Widened gaps in society
―Skewed access to quality education―Biased for certain intelligences
Focused on employment rather than job creation
What’s wrong with Philippine education?
Our education system has: Widened gaps in society
―Skewed access to quality education―Biased for certain intelligences
Focused on employment rather than job creation
Preoccupied with knowledge and information, neglected wisdom
Widening gaps
• Private education generally superior (and cost society less!)
Widening gaps
• Private education generally superior (and cost society less!)
• Only the rich can afford the best schools
Widening gaps
• Private education generally superior (and cost society less!)
• Only the rich can afford the best schools• Budget per pupil dropped• Schools focus on verbal/linguistic and
logico/mathematical intelligences– Easiest for the rich to sharpen– Those strong in other intelligences are
marginalized in the school system
The Nine Intelligences
Musical/rhythmic Bodily/kinesthetic Visual/spatial Intrapersonal Interpersonal
Verbal/linguistic Logical/
mathematical Naturalist Existentialist
Employment vs. Entrepreneurship
Our schools tend to prepare students: to work for others, rather than to create
work for others high unemployment to earn incomes, rather than create
wealth low productivity
Employment vs. Entrepreneurship
Our schools tend to prepare students: to work for others, rather than to create
work for others high unemployment to earn incomes, rather than create
wealth low productivityTypical student’s aim: to work for a
multinational company or work overseas
Educating for Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship values―can start from primary school
Educating for Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship values―can start from primary school
Entrepreneurship skills―secondary school up
Not just for management majors
Wisdom vs. Knowledge
• Knowledge and information are easily accessible in this Information Age
Wisdom vs. Knowledge
• Knowledge and information are easily accessible in this Information Age
• Knowledge need not be memorized
Wisdom vs. Knowledge
• Knowledge and information are easily accessible in this Information Age
• Knowledge need not be memorized• What’s needed is wisdom: the ability
to use knowledge to solve problems (family, community, nation humanity)
Wisdom vs. Knowledge
• Knowledge and information are easily accessible in this Information Age
• Knowledge need not be memorized• What’s needed is wisdom: the ability
to use knowledge to solve problems (family, community, nation humanity)
• Wisdom does not come from science and math alone (also history, culture, humanities, philosophy, civics)
Learning Differently
The Life Learning System Life Learning System:
a dynamic learning social process centered on community life and living
Learning Community:Groups of people who share common
values and beliefs actively engage in community learning experiences
School, family & community engage in social, economic, political & cultural transformation
Life Learning System: How Does It Operate?
Content: Provide for the development of abilities that will lead learners to successful adaptation to a changing culture
Instruction: Operate according to the principles of effective teaching and learning (MI/LS)
Assessment: Process-folio is an assembly of steps and phases in the course of learners developing projects, products or performances.
Learning Community:The Framework
Institution
Cultural Numeracy/ Literacy
Environmental Numeracy/ Literacy
Technology Environment
People
Community ResourcesCommunity Resources
Socially Responsible Entrepreneurship
A values-driven innovation on the culture of thinking and interaction in education. This leads learners to serve as social, political, environmental & economic performers in the midst of cultural change.
Socially Responsible EntrepreneurshipHow Cahbriba Promotes It
Metaphors of Life ( 4 Fs) Family
(Social Performance)Kin
Forum(Political Performance)
Citizen
Fair(Cultural Performance)
Artist
Firm(Economic Performance)
Entrepreneur
Apprenticeship
Building the Nation’s Character
Concern for the common good, rather than self-interest
Love of country (Makabayan) Values education
―Taught by example (by teachers, by society’s leaders)
―Taught by community (immersion in real world problems & challenges)
Ateneo Center for Economic Research and Development
Postscript:Poverty is Not Inevitable
• Statistics tell us that one out of every four Filipino families is poor… but this also means 3 out of 4 are not
• We only need one out of every three non-poor Filipino families to “adopt” one poor family and help nurture them sustainably out of poverty (“teach them to fish”)
• Statistics tell us that one out of every four Filipino families is poor… but this also means 3 out of 4 are not
• We only need one out of every three non-poor Filipino families to “adopt” one poor family and help nurture them sustainably out of poverty (“teach them to fish”)
Ateneo Center for Economic Research and Development
Postscript:Poverty is Not Inevitable
• Statistics tell us that one out of every four Filipino families is poor… but this also means 3 out of 4 are not
• We only need one out of every three non-poor Filipino families to “adopt” one poor family and help nurture them sustainably out of poverty (“teach them to fish”)
• No one is so poor as to have nothing to share; no one is so rich as to need nothing from another
• With enough caring & sharing… poverty need not be inevitable.
• Statistics tell us that one out of every four Filipino families is poor… but this also means 3 out of 4 are not
• We only need one out of every three non-poor Filipino families to “adopt” one poor family and help nurture them sustainably out of poverty (“teach them to fish”)
• No one is so poor as to have nothing to share; no one is so rich as to need nothing from another
• With enough caring & sharing… poverty need not be inevitable.