My question
Among all the country in the whole wide world, the Philippines has the shortest education cycle preparatory to university. Ours is 10 years; the rest of the world is 12. In short, we have a curriculum that, on paper, covers the same subject matter as the rest of the world but which we cram into 10, instead of 12 years.
This means that our teachers take all kinds of short cuts to try to cover the material or just simply do not attempt to cover the entire syllabus in a given year for lack of material time. This shortchanges our children’s education.” Maybe it is true that this is one of the reasons why many Filipino graduates become incompetent as compared to those who graduated from international universities. But the question is, “Are the additional two years in basic education the solution to the arising problems in our educational system?
