Do you love being at school? Of course yes, because some have these reasons: they want to see their crush, they want to see their classmates but the most important reason is to have knowledge but sometimes maybe not. Maybe it is because you have some problems at school, you have there your best enemy (kidding), or you just don’t feel like going to school. But let me tell you about what was happening in our environment related about school.
“The youths are the future of our nation” these are the words uttered by our own great hero, Dr. Jose Rizal, this inspires me to go to school, but one day, I knew something that I was very shocked. And this is it:
As we all know, being at school is one of the most important rights of a humane living. When I was still in my elementary years, one of my teacher told me how important to be in school and to have so I have to be proud of it. Maybe not only my mother told me about that, all parents told their children about that higher education and knowledge. My mother also told me that nobody can grab my grades and my knowledge. It is not only me who wants to have higher education and knowledge, but all of us.
Everyone wants to acquire higher education or become a degree holder someday. This means that at least he or she graduated and finish a course in college. It can not be denied that, although it is much harder to find jobs these days, but companies are seeking for more knowledgeable employees’ to hire, than those who are not able to finish their studies.
Finding a greener pasture, not at all times, but mostly requires a better and higher knowledge obtained in studies. Knowledge, of course, is a kind of wealth that a man can hold through out his life. No one can grab that wealth from him, as my parents sometime tell me. And that, knowledge, is one of every man’s rights. It is consonance to man’s right to humane living. Thus, education must be secured by any government in any nation and offer it free and accessible to everyone, rich or poor, for it is the government’s obligation to guarantee knowledge to all of his citizens.
But today, tuitions and other educational expenses are gone higher, making knowledge impossible to be acquired by members of indigenous families. And Commission on Higher Education (CHED) a government agency concern on this issue allows this to happen.
One time, when there was a P.T.A meeting, their agenda is about our homeroom project, and of classmate’s mother suggested that our floor will going to be tiled. Of course, it is very expensive for my poor classmates, and then my mother’s classmate told us that “It was their privilege to study here so we must pay it in return. This made me very confused of what she said. And the day after that, I saw a video about the chairperson of CHED and he said that “you might be get hurt of this, but if you want to have quality education, you must be ready to pay for it.” Is this not a manifestation that they abandon their responsibility in securing an accessible and free education to all, especially the indigents?
An answer to this next question of mine can determine whether they, the CHED, stands for the students or for the big business minded “educators”: is knowledge a right or a privilege?
