The iskolar ng bayan title... was given to the students of the University of the Philippines because people believe that they are given top - class education using the taxer`s money... but what happens when the iskolar ng bayan pays for their education in high prices? What happens when the low tuition fee rule is changed? Will people from all walks of life still battle it out for a slot in the country`s premier university? Will the present students ,who have been Iskolar ng bayan, still be able to keep up in paying the increased tuition fees? Will the students of the Countries premier university... still be fit in calling them selves... Iskolar ng bayan?
Many students from different organizations have been giving out leaflets, small talks and student memorandums this past few weeks... They are the staunch defenders of student rights in the university... They have been calling help and support from their fellow campus-mates to stop the university government in pushing thru the tuition fee increase ... LET US HELP... It may be wrong to protest... but what makes it right... is the fact that we are fighting for something ... something that if not acted upon may be snatched from us... that something... is formal education...
Who would want a tuition fee increase in our time? The country is experiencing political and economical turmoil... how can simple students, whose parents salary are not even enough to present food for 3 meals a day, be able to coupe up with the tuition when it increases 3 times the present? That may cause the desolution of 1/2 the campus` population... Education is a right... being in this university.. using the taxer`s money... making efforts to do good... academically and morally... is not obliged...however it is also not just a simple gift... what we have here in our grasp and so with those future iskolar ng bayan... is a privilege... a privilege to be educated just like ,if not greater, with those in the high payed campuse like Ateneo, La Salle, Letran, UST and many others.. in low cost..
the true sense of being an iskolar ng bayan... is gaining education in affordable means... but increasing the tuition from 300 to 1000 per unit is destroying the whole sense of it... honestly, I may be able to pay such tuition... however does this mean that putting it up is right? s0me people would not want to help cause they are thinking that they can fit-in in such a scenario... however is it right? first of all... being here in the University of the Philippines... gives us a task to be the future builders of this country... because of such a reason... We must be noted that we must fight for the right of every Filipino youngsters that may pass the upcat exams the same privilege we have from the past.... We must help in building the support for the generation next to us that they too... just like us... can obtain the affordable formal education the university has to offer.. another thing is that.... allowing such thing to happen may show them that we are weak and we will just allow any revisions in the university proper .... freedom to express and be heard is then oppressed.... after that we are left of nothing... what may be next? we don`t know.. and we must not let it happen...
It all starts here...
Ang tunay na iskolar ng bayan ay marunong ipaglaban ang karapatan niya... ang karapatan ng sambayanan... ang karapatan nang makabagong kabataan... Narito tayo dahil napili tayo... at kung hahayaan natin ang isang maling pagbabago... marahil tayo na ang huling magiging napili ng sambayanan ... wala man akong gustong i-implikang masama... subalit... tanging sa atin na lamang may napupuntahang maganda ang kaban ng bayan... pero bakit ipinagkakait pa rin ito sa atin... Tayo ang kinabukasan... kaya`t wag nating hayaan ang maling pagbabagong ito na sirain ang karapatan nating matuto... at mabigyan ng edukasyon... na kaya natin...
Ka-iska... Ka-isko... kaya natin to kung sama sama tayo... kaya natin `to kung di natin ito hahayaan... Ikaw ay iskolar ng bayan.... Patunayan natin ito... ang kakayanan nating magsalita at magpakita ng tama... Ikaw to... Para sa iyo ito... isko at iska...
Education may be the last existing thing we can show the world.. so dont let it just pass off your grasps...
scion
