High School is Never a Thing of the Past

According to Gilas, only 32 out of 100 children who enter Grade 1, manage to graduate from high school. That's a 68% drop-out rate.

Who knows how much better off the Philippines will be with substantially greater investments in education.

Consider this campaign for UP Integrated School, a small publicly funded high school. You may not agree with the politics of some personalities who appear in this ad, but you cannot deny that this one small school has managed to produce leaders, not just in politics, but probably more importantly, in art, music, business and other fields.

Imagine our country if such leaders - confident and articulate - emerged from all over, and not just from high schools (mostly private!) in Metro Manila.