Selected Articles and Essays by various authors: I. The Challenge of a Hundred Days: Believing that Filipinos can, Tony Meloto + + II. The 2006 Ramon Magsaysay Award for Community Service, for Tony Meloto + + III. Open Letter to Noynoy, F. Sionil Jose + + IV. A History of Pain, Juan L. Mercado + + V. An Open Letter to Noynoy, From OFWS + + VI. Pursuit of Good Governance Advocacies, Marcelo Tecson + + VII. A Fervent Prayer for Peace, Cesar Torres + + VIII. A History of Betrayal, Perry Diaz + + IX. Corona's Thorny Crown, Perry Diaz + + X. Dawn of a New Era, Perry Diaz + + XI. Of Mice, Boys and Men, Philip S. Chua, MD + + XII. A Hopeful Tomorrow - A Balikbayan Insight, Philip S. Chua, MD + + XIII. Global Filipinos: A Sleeping Giant, Philip S. Chua, MD + + XIV. Heart to Heart - Winds of Change, Philip S. Chua, MD + + XV. Growing Old is a Privilege, Philip S. Chua, MD + + XVI. Our Cruelty to Mother Earth, Philip S. Chua, MD + + XVII. Advice to Grads: “Never Choose Your Heroes Lightly”, Ernie Delfin + + XVIII. Gawad Kalinga, A Progressive Movement, Ernie Delfin + + XIX. Why a Man Must Save and Invest, Ernie Delfin + + XX. Beautiful San Francisco, Pinoy Heaven, Ted Laguatan + + XXI. The next President and PAMUSA, Frank Wenceslao + + XXII. Philippne Budget Deficit, Frank Wenceslao + + XXIII. Money Laundering: US Tools vs. Corruption, Frank Wenceslao + + XXIV. Amid the Fighting, Clan Rules Maguindanao, Jaileen F. Jimeno + + XXV. Why I Publish Writings, Tatay Jobo Elizes
The Ideal of the Practical is a study of efforts by a segment of the upper class in an aristocratic Latin American society to alter cultural values in the society, creating stronger orientations toward the technical and the practical. Frank Safford describes attempts by members of Colombia’s nineteenth-century political elite to use technical education as a means of nurturing energetic upper-class entrepreneurs and an industrious working class in a static agrarian economy. In the course of his analysis, Safford sketches the historical development of scientific and technical education and of the engineering profession in Colombia. The book opens with a description of the economic and social context of early nineteenth-century Colombia. It then discusses some early experiments with manual industrial training between 1820 and 1850. Later chapters deal with the careers of upper-class youths sent abroad for scientific and technical training, the growth of indigenous engineering education, and the crystallization of a Colombian engineering profession. While the book primarily explores the nineteenth century, it also touches on eighteenth-century Spanish Bourbon antecedents and provides an epilogue on the twentieth-century evolution of technical elites in Colombia. The author focuses on the reasons why the implantation of technical education and technical orientations proved difficult. He examines the interplay between various obstructions: on the one hand, a hierarchical social structure and aristocratic social values and, on the other, obstructions created by fundamental geographic and economic conditions. He concludes that, while Colombian leaders had hoped that technical education and the development of values oriented toward the technical would spearhead economic growth, in fact economic growth proved a prerequisite for the effective implantation of technical orientations and training.
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