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050 Ode to Mike (3)
Many years had passed since we last met. Certainly, we got to see each other in a few education events. But it was the same Mike. It was the same warm albeit restrained smile. He had gone back to work at AIM, among other education-related activities (He was trustee at Far Eastern University and the…
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049 Ode to Mike (2)
Mike Luz was an enigma to me, at least, he was when we were working in the same building at the Department of Education’s Central Office in Pasig City. He was a very private person, I thought. As am I. So we basically kept to ourselves all that time, him in his ground floor office…
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048 Ode to Mike (1)
It was a beautiful Baguio afternoon back in 2005 when I first stepped foot at the education secretary’s cottage at Teachers Camp. Having been executive director of youth development organization CMLI in the early 90s, I’ve always been very familiar with the camp, since that’s like our second home, where we’d bring hundreds of youth…
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047 Progressive Eclecticism
Progressive Eclecticism is a progressive approach to education that recognizes the inherent value of traditional philosophies, beliefs and approaches to education, as applied to the objectives, content and methodology of learning.