It is such a good thing that some of us are now calling other people in a more respectful way. The senior members of our society are now being called “wise” or “experienced” instead of the apparently harmless term “old”. I heard someone call our Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo as “vertically challenged” instead of “pandak”. We now call our handicapped brethrens as “differently abled”.
Too bad, as a writer and advocate of counter-academic beliefs, I am ashamed to admit that I myself failed to observe political correctness in addressing my fellow “undergrads”.
Some Pinoys nowadays shun the label “college dropout” for it is a pejorative word that segregates the undergrads from the “college graduates”, with the former as those who failed and dropped out of the academic arena and the latter as those who won and earned the recognition is being among the educated.
In order to soften things, some people (yours truly included) use the term “undergraduate” instead. But the term “undergraduate” is an equally contemptuous one, for it implies that the intelligence level of the “undergrads” is UNDER the competence bar of the college graduates. We all know that’s not true.
So from now on, we college undergraduates will address ourselves in a totally different way. We will now call ourselves as differently educated.
And as a mark of respect to our new name, I will be renaming this sub-blog from "Learning Beyond Schooling, Education Over Academics" to "Differently Educated".
Cheers to the differently educated talents of the Philippine corporate world!
Too bad, as a writer and advocate of counter-academic beliefs, I am ashamed to admit that I myself failed to observe political correctness in addressing my fellow “undergrads”.
Some Pinoys nowadays shun the label “college dropout” for it is a pejorative word that segregates the undergrads from the “college graduates”, with the former as those who failed and dropped out of the academic arena and the latter as those who won and earned the recognition is being among the educated.
In order to soften things, some people (yours truly included) use the term “undergraduate” instead. But the term “undergraduate” is an equally contemptuous one, for it implies that the intelligence level of the “undergrads” is UNDER the competence bar of the college graduates. We all know that’s not true.
So from now on, we college undergraduates will address ourselves in a totally different way. We will now call ourselves as differently educated.
And as a mark of respect to our new name, I will be renaming this sub-blog from "Learning Beyond Schooling, Education Over Academics" to "Differently Educated".
Cheers to the differently educated talents of the Philippine corporate world!
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