Interesting ASEAN Reads:
1. Understanding PH Chairmanship and the ASEAN Community
2. Celebrating ASEAN 50th Anniversary in the Philippines
3. ASEAN 2017: Covering History and Blogging the Story
I’m browsing the morning news when I chanced upon this report from ABS CBN. Despite the Philippines’ robust economic growth, it has failed to lift the labor market where many are trapped in low-paying and unstable jobs.
This reminded me of the press briefer held by the Philippine Marketing Association for their 47th National Marketing Conference, dubbed Hello ASEAN.
What caught my attention is how Vietnam has progressed, 50 years since ASEAN was founded, and managed to have the lowest poverty rate. Compare with the Philippines, PH is only better than Myanmar.
Furthermore, Vietnam successfully increased the IQ level of her citizens, and became 2nd only to Singapore. While Filipinos was reported to have the lowest IQ in ASEAN
In a business forum I attended three years ago, Finance Secretary Cesar Purisima said that the greatest asset of the Philippines is her young population. A younger population can mean higher productivity, with more wealth created to support senior citizens. Sec. Purisima further said the government will pour more funds to education to make it accessible to the underprivileged. This can lead to a higher IQ which can open opportunities to high quality and high paying jobs.
With the K to 12 program rolling out this year, the quality of education is being addressed (crossed fingers). Unfortunately, free quality education for all is still a dream. And with NEDA alarmed with the high percentage of youth inactivity, we have a serious problem ahead.
credit: images lifted from the powerpoint presentation of Wilfrido V.E. Arcilla, Program Advisor of 47th National Marketing Conference.
IQ value shown (94) for Vietnamese is not dependable due to it is not elaborated from any test, It is an assumpsion by a surveyor, then many articles cite the result then making Vietnamese become second smartest people in ASEAN.
Smart or not smart by IQ indicator is meaningless.
South Korea has the most educated population in Asia and a very strong universities. But they also have economy focused completely on industrialisation, automatisation, high tech services. They simply produce so much so high quality students because they are in demand and they have industry which will use their skils. It is mechanism which drives itself farther.
Only educating and producing students without low tax incentives for creating small and medium filipino businesses won’t change anything. These students won’t have a ready jobs or practical skills and capital to build something on their own. So what will they do? They will emigrate and all money invested in education will go with them abroad will be lost.
To increase IQ:
– good, healthy diet should be promoted – no processed shop low quality, full of sugar and salt food – healthy diet means – maximum 3 but proper meals daily with green vegetables, herbs, eggs, meat/fish fat, unrefined energy dense cocoa oil, and less rice/sugar/alkohol/ other processed plant oils/grains. And using sea salt with minerals not that processed one.
This also includes promotion of planting of new sorts of healthy food around. Rice monocultures isn’t a variety nutriens a healthy brain needs. Also many healthy herbs are everywhere which ppl forget to use while it could save them from visits to doctors and buying expensive medications with ugly side effects.
– promotion of good habits in children – showing education programs in TV and not entertainment without any value – which internet you can find any knowledge you want – if you only have a bit time, cellphone and a focus on rising a smart child. School won’t do your job as a parent and even as a teacher! Teach your children what you know as fast as your baby is able to grasp it.
-promotion of proper spending of foreign remitances – not for consumption, eating up that money – but for development of small businesses, training kids how market, sales and growing business looks like since the very first years of his life. Nothing is for free but strong efforts, looking for opportunities and trying hard always brings Gods help and prosperity in future.
Just wanted to know how many percents of the entire population have participated in the IQ testing to arrive at the conclusion. And yes, education has nothing to do with IQ. IQ is inborn with us all. whether we have it high or low is a different matter. It is within our DNA. It is not learned. Obtaining, IQ is a process, IQ is a score obtained by dividing a person’s mental age score, obtained by administering an intelligence test, by the person’s chronological age, both expressed in terms of years and months. The resulting fraction is multiplied by 100 to obtain the IQ score. So, this is not education related. One can be educated but still having a low IQ. Just to clarify. Thank you. Cheers!
Kumusta anak ang school?absent si Mam ..me seminar.Books?Oh sa anong page naba kayo?wala sa libro ang lesson Mommy nasa TV screen lang at hindi kami pinakopya dahil nagdediscuss pa siya.Pagkatapos wala na.
Yeah right, the Filipinos are low IQ because they kept on winning in an academic competition like this:
https://news.abs-cbn.com/life/07/23/18/ph-wins-another-gold-in-international-math-olympiad
ive been to some countries in Asia… all i can say is Philippines is already left behind in terms of orderliness, cleanliness and technology. sad to say but it is true… please comment only those who experienced traveling to different countries. and correct me if i am wrong.
True, but it’s also the attitude and mindset of most Filipinos that makes them inferior.
Education has an important role to play in society however it has very little to do with IQ. You can’t really increase your IQ it is mainly inherited and people opposing that mainly argue for things that takes place way before a kid goes to school.
Access to contraception and food/water will probably help the Philippines more then any school program.
Children First. Let’s give children the best possible start because it is in the right holistic early childhood care and training where children will develop, preparing them for life. Together let’s preapre our people for total growth and development.
It’s not surprising,
Considering people like Duterte and Pacquiao were elected. Simple research and validation of info would have prevented it, but the majority of voters lack the skills as well as resources.
It all comes down how they parents raise their children.. Depende lng po sa upbringing ng bata.
I agree, but the government should do more interventions to break poverty and hunger , and one of that is education. Some parents who are not educated are not keen to send their kids to school, thus contributing to the low IQ
Well as for me, this should serve as a challenge to our country and to everyone. If we want to be progressive, then we must focus on what to change.
So much has been said about the quality of education in the country that this is merely figures that support what we already know. Because this topic is broad, I would like to focus on the first paragraph of the post, Sonnie.
Yes, the country is growing, the economy is up. And yes, the quality of work has not significantly changed. Sure, there is a new class of people who now earn a little more, but overal, the are microscopic dots compared to the whole.
The economy of the Philippines is investor driven, and that being the case, the need for labor has increased, but still labor. The same low paying jobs that do not allow for even a decent life. I suspect subconsciously, it has been ingrained in the minds of many people especially from class d that whatever they do, they are destined for hardship. As much as the education system is to blame, I believe it is also the culture of the lesser privileged that which they place low priority on education. If they want to learn, there are now more ways to.
I agree fully. And the education doesn’t always means proper useful education.
If the cost of opening education for more masses of young Filipino will be lowwering the requirement for studying than what quality of education and skills they will have after leaving these universities (which are nonexistant in global rankings – but similar effect is visible in a postsoviet Eastern Europe – quite a stunning corellation)
If Philipines will end up in the same place as Poland after joining EU – with a huge population of educated people without economy needing their poor quality education and nonexistant really needed hard skills they all will also be leaving Philipines for a better perspectives elsewhere. I hope there is still a big gap of demand for them.
Free education for all in Poland caused a massive overproduction of uneployed students who were for years fed by their parents a fake mantra – learn and you will have a good job, its your good future. And they found it but mostly in foreign countries.
Also more “mentally modernised” population will be less demographically productive. They will leave and the biggest driver of Philipines – a young population will disappear creating the same intergenerations hole causing later problems with providing help for the growing older and sicker population of their grandmas and grandpas.
I hope a great emphasis would be put on scientific education and not on humanistic useless for a modern economy skills.
And the economy which is boosted all the time by high inflation and real estate artificial boom isn’t a sustained one. At some point these investors could calculate that inflated boom has ended and they will escape with their capital elsewhere – but no real technological advancement will be left in philipines from this speculative bubble. To grow economy needs industry – production, not more more expensive houses that no normal Filipino affords.
This news is extremely bad. I hope the new administration has plans for this. Wealth is centered to only a few people here in the Philippines that’s why the poverty level continues to rise despite our economic growth.
While it is nice to see Vietnam making progressive strides in the rankings, I believe IQ alone should not be a judging standard. For me IQ and EQ hold the same significance.
yes indeed, but it’s interesting how the study connected poverty to IQ development
EQ has almost nothing to do with success. IQ on the other hand is the strongest indicator. EQ is not close to being as segnificant as IQ. EQ is also a highly questionable form of intelligence.
Adam…highly questinable? in what cave were you living in?….EQ gauges personal traits like discipling, self-control….you consider these not significant?
How many jobs did EQ created? It was invented only to make some people feel better… but fooling yourself isn’t the best way to improve yourself.
Youth nowadays would just have their phones up and go online for almost a lifetime. They’d never bother to read a physical book. Everything is digital. More and more have been neglecting the physical objects due to the age of the digital era.
I think the K to 12 program is a good move, we are just one of the 3 or 4 countries which have yet to put it into place. We have a lot of good talent her locally but it is not just harnessed well. Aside from development in our education system best as well if our local TV will bring back educationally friendly shows as replacement for drama ones.
When I was young, I watched Sesame Street, Pambata ATBP and later Batibot. I read Archie Comic book, my dad’s Reader’s Digest and answer the kiddie section of Manila Bulletin’s Sunday edition. Nowadays, kids watch telenovelas and tagalized movies/cartoons. Children are not into reading anymore. They rather play on their iPads.
Sad to hear but not entirely surprising. I hope education in the country will improve in the current administration. Moreover, a lot of young people nowadays have access to the Internet but mostly use it for entertainment purposes such as Facebook. I also noticed that there seems to be lack of discernment on where to get proper information or news.