The Compendium World

Society has placed a high value on education for several centuries. Despite its turbulent history and, therefore, the huge changes to its academic system over the years, the importance of education has remained constant. Nowadays, it's hardly an exaggeration to mention that faculty is the most significant time during a child's life when success or the result of the action is all that matters.  Success in class suggests one thing - access to a top-ranked university as a one-time chance that's determined by a student's performance on the entrance examination. Their life-long potential for social quality, economic security, and employment chance, not to mention their vanity and emotional well-being; in alternative words, their 'quality of life' rely upon this one examination. However, what awaits if the students fail? Failing an examination is like failing: Your life? Your parents? Did not live up to the expectations? Failing yourself? This can be the quiet self-co...

"All Filipinos want to be something else: the poor want to be Americans, and the rich want to be Spaniards. " Nobody wants to be Filipino," Suretsky, an American author, quoted his friend's remark in his article entitled Inferiority Complex: A Filipino Malady. The remark is quite provocative as it aroused considerable public attention not just in Asia but across the globe. And yes, we couldn't deny the fact that, in general, Asians have an inferiority complex not only in terms of literacy but also in some major aspects. The prevailing national pride and values of Asian countries are underdeveloped, and there are inferiority feelings toward the Western world in broader sections of the population; well, I guess this was brought upon by the kind of mentality we've today. In some lenses, Asians must be in complete distress, slowly losing their sense of value to their heritage. Take how other countries see Asians as poorly proficient in their history. Thus, this e...

Peace talks would be doomed if it would be held in Manila, Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) founder Jose Maria Sison insisted on Tuesday after the insistence of President Duterte that the talks should be held in the Philippines. “Why should I talk outside? I’m talking about our country, my country, and their country, and they want to take over and overthrow the government. And why do we have to talk [about] the f***ing thing outside?” Duterte said in a speech during the 81st anniversary of the Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) in Pasay City. Sison earlier says that the peace negotiations would collapse if the President would dictate the venue of the resumption of the peace negotiations as for the safety of both leaders. Joma also assailed the choice of venue of the President, saying it would be easy for the government to conduct “surveillance and control” among communist rebels joining the talks. But Duterte gave his oft-repeated assurance to Sison that he w...