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ACEPoolPlayer
Joined 2012
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Philippines education

11 years ago

Hey what's going on? A few days of nothing to read while having my morning coffee. Ok, I'll start a new post... Anyone who has children under the age of 20 living in the Philippines or planning on living in the Philippines listen up. Pre school (2+) is great and relatively inexpensive outside of Metro Manila. In Manila it can get costly plus the pain in the neck of fighting traffic to drop off or pick up you kids. I think the Maria Montessor schools are good. They follow a wordwide method. Education up to around age 8 or 10 is good in the Philippines. I guess International schools would be better with foreign teachers (assuming they have some that are really well qualified) but they are generally very expensive. The problem with Philippines education after the age of 10 or so, they rely too much on memorization. In the Western world I think it'smuch more listen, understand and remember. In the Philippines in many courses (even right through Medical School) the method is listen and memorize. During tests instead of understanding the 10 reason for....whatever. The question on the exam would be inumerate the 10... I could be a sentence with two words missing and you have to fill in the blanks. I had many classmates that could memorize anything but two months later they couldn't remember it because they didn't understand what they were memorizing. That's the system. It goes around and around because the schools hire graduates from their schools that were taught the same method. It's never the most qualified. It's who you know.

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