Dear student (3 of 5): Don’ do what is best; do what is necessary
BY EDISON MARTE SICAD
MAYBE you are familiar with the question, “If you knew beforehand that you will not fail, will you do it then?”
This...
Dear student (2 of 5): learn from criticisms
BY EDISON MARTE SICAD
THERE will come a time (many times, actually) when laziness controls your action, weakness overpowers your strength, and perception blinds your...
Dear student (1 of 5): Stop whining and be more responsible
BY EDISON MARTE SICAD
FOR THE OPENING of classes this school year, I will no longer be in a classroom welcoming the students. Also, I...
Double your failure rate (Risky ideas that can help those who are tough enough...
BY EDISON MARTE SICAD
DISCUSSING about emotional intelligence, a lawyer-friend of mine shared a story about a trainee who cried because he was corrected of...
Learning: a synergy for ideas, not a coverage for an exam
BY EDISON MARTE SICAD
“People don’t have ideas. Ideas have people.” – Carl Jung
THE ROMAN god Bacchus — Dionysus in Greek mythology — is chiefly...
Duc in Altum! (Launch out into the deep!)
ONE of the lessons I learned from my college teacher in Rizal class: what makes Jose Rizal, among all the other national heroes, as...
Depression as a social media phenomenon
BY EDISON MARTE SICAD
RECENTLTY, there were news reports about teenagers and young celebrities in relation to depression that would sometimes lead to suicide. There...
Critical thinking and social media
BY EDISON MARTE SICAD
“Choose the best answer.”
I have nothing against standardized testing. But let us be careful in using it as the main basis...
The use of gadgets in school: boon or bane?
BY EDISON MARTE SICAD
AT FIRST, it was easy to defend and support the NO GADGETS in school as a policy of helping students focus...
To learn by doing and not just by reading
BY EDISON MARTE SICAD
“I hear and I forget.I see and I remember.I do and I understand.”
—Confucius
INASMUCH that I encourage the reading of books for...