A presentation prepared by :
Annaliza Onda
Maria Teresa Abel Dimaandal
-undenyable real truth among
college students and graduated
here in the Philippines.
-Where students developed the
lack of natural skills and abilities to
reason , to choose ,to believe and
denying the importance of those
abilities .
In the first place, there is the all but
delirious worship of the printed page.
“What does the book say?” is, by all odds,
the most important question in the student’s
mind whenever he is faced with any problem
calling for his own reasoning.
By the same token, may students feel a sort of frenzy
for facts till these become as huge as the mountains
and the mind is crushed under them. Those students
think of nothing but how to accumulate data; hence,
their capacity for clear and powerful thinking is
paralyzed. How pathetic to hear them argue and
discuss! Because they lack the native vitality of
unhampered reason, their discourse smacks of cant
and sophistry rather than of healthy reasoning and
straight thinking.
It is thus that many of our students surrender
their individuality to the textbook and lose
their birthright—which is to think for
themselves. And when they attempt to form
their own judgment, they become pedantic.
Unless a student develops the habit of
independent and sound reasoning, his college
education is a solemn sham.
Compare these hair-splitting college students with
Juan de la Cruz in the barrios.
Now, Juan de la Cruz has read very little: no
undigested mass of learning dulls the edge of
his inborn logic, his mind is free from the
overwhelming, stultifying weight of
unassimilated book knowledge.
How penetrating his perception,
how unerring his judgment,
how solid his common sense!
He contemptuously refers to the
learned sophists, thus: ”Lumabis ang
karunungan mo,” which means,
“Your learning is too much.”
“A thing of beauty is a joy forever,”says Keats.
But we know that beauty us a matter of taste; and,
unless we develop in us a proper appreciation
of what is beautiful and sublime, everything
around us is tedious and commonplace. We rise
early and go out into, but our spirit is responsive
to the hopeful quietude and the dew-chastened
sweetness of dawn. At night we behold the
myriad stars, but they are just so many bright
specks—their soft fires do not soothe our troubled
hearts, and we do not experience that awesome,
soul stirring fascination of the immense ties of
God’s universe.
Tell me, is such a life worth coming to college
for? Yet, my friends, the overspecialization
which many students pursue with zeal and
devotion is bound to result in such an unfeeling,
dry-as-dust existence.
We are bathed in the silver sheen of the moon
and yet feel not the beatitude of the moment.
We gaze upon a vista of high mountains, but
their silent strength has no appeal for us. We
read some undying verses; still, their
vibrant cadence does not thrill us, and their
transcendent though is to us like a vision that
vanishes.
We look at a masterpiece of the chisel with its
eternal gracefulness of lines and properties, yet
to us it is no more than a mere human likeness.
Here, again, many of our students should sit at
the feet of meagrely educated Juan de la Cruz
and learn wisdom. Ah! He is often called
ignorant, but he is the wisest of the wise, for he
has unravelled the mysteries of life. His is the
happiness of the man who knows the whys of
human existense.
Unassuming Juan de la Cruz cherishes no
“Vaulting ambition which o’erleaps itself.”
His simple and hardy virtues put to shame the
studied and complex rules of conduct of
highly educated men and women.
In adversity, his stoicism is beyond
encomium. love of home, so guilelessly
faithful, is the firm foundation of our social
structure. And his patriotism has been tested
and found true. Can our students learn from
Juan de la Cruz, or does their college
education unfit them to become his pupils?
INDUCTIVE
PATTERN
STRICT/
IMPERSONAL
The main idea of this essay This essay was written
is “how college education perhaps mainly because the
may “uneducate” rather than author wants to inform the
educate Filipino students.” It reader of the reality we face in
is further explained and our college education today. It
discussed in the essay the 3 is his way of expressing the
ways in which students are truth of how society badly
getting college uneducation affects Filipino college
which all pertain to the students. It serves as his
improper way of learning. “Wake-up call” not only to the
students but also to the
teachers of our society to
change the way we Filipinos
are educated for our own
benefits.
The essay was written in 11 among the mentioned in the
paragraphs and follows a essay, is book-worship,
deductive pattern wherein it where the student choose
started with the general the book as a sufficient
proposition of the issue source of information,
being talked about. It is later including the “reasoning”,
unfolded and developed by and “point of views”, where it
the examples and ways should be the student who
showing evidences relevant will provide, and not based
to the issue. And lastly, the on the book.
author ended it with a
conclusion.
College “uneducation” is the The essay has the coherence
undenyable real truth among because the subtopics are
college students and directly related to each other.
graduates here in the Another element adding up to
Philippines, where students the coherence of the essay is
developed the lack of natural the use of words and phrases
skills and abilities to reason, such as “in the first place”,
to choose, and to believe, “second”, “Lastly”, and “in
and denying the importance conclusion”. These words
show sequencing of examples
of those abilities, as they
or events. Also, putting titles
ignore and intolerate them.
before each paragraph gives
the reader a brief thought of
what the paragraph would
talk about.
The term itself is recursive with it's word
“uneducation” as a way of expressing the real truth
about the current situation that is happening now on
our College students and Graduates.
The author pointed out the essays to college students,
and college graduates, where he observed them, on
both college students and college graduates, produced
by the Philippines.
he entitled the essay “College Uneducation” as a wake-
up call on the Philippines, as he pointed out some
grounds the majority of college students have.
in this essay shows the sensation of life in writing by
pointing out the factors that the author like to share to
the readers or what he want to express in his specific
topic which is the ‘college uneducation”. how he
delivered his thoughts on point.it is really relevant
especially in our new generation today, it compares how
the people who lived in the past differ from the people of
today
In conclusion, I shall say that I have observed among
many of our students certain alarming signs of college
uneducation, and some of these are: (1) lack of
independent judgment as well as love of pedantry,
because of the worship of the printed page and the
feverish accumulation of undigested data;
(2) the deadening of the delicate sense of the beautiful
and the sublime, on account of overspecialization; and
(3) neglect of the formulation of a sound philosophy of
life as a result of excessive emphasis on professional
training.
