Indictment: Quality Education Deflates Below Zero Datum

by: Mary Grace S. Cagay

On typical campus days you can see corpses attending their classes, taking hold of whatever their professors stuff in their not-so-empty brains. Grrr.. Here I am again, a zombie roaming around the premises, wandering looking for another victim to scare.
Tic-tac, tic-tac… The clock strikes 11:30 am. There I am sitting still; applying the epitome of espionage, ready to eviscerate beings with my esoteric verbiage; dauntlessly climbing up to the zenith.
Let’s start with this flaring issue on the so-called “Quality Education” this learning institution has in store for these creeping carcasses to fill-in the spaces of their brains. Ugghh! What a seamy phase of matter.
“Mag-meet si Ma’am?” Dili man siguro. “Dili nalang ta mosulod klase.” Uy, onde ka anda? Man-meet daw si ma’am ara. “’di ya lang io entra, nonsense lang man syempre ta-abla si ma’am, huga ya lang io DOTA.” When i happen to chitchat with student regarding how they are taught by their profesors, he said with a flick of disappointment on his face, “Wala na ko’y gana mosulod klase, mas maayu pa man amu high school teachers sa ilaha (referring to the college instructors). Simple English grammar dili gane kabalu. Mali2x pa ang uban lessons. They are no longer efficient and effective teachers.” These and other looming tête-à-têtes make up the campus setting. Do these corpses I mean students still experiencing the “quality education” they are after? An article of this publication clearly stated this line, “We (referring to ZSCMST) don’t accept the best and the brightest, we make them.”There are lots of synonymous words to the word MAKE: to wit some; create craft, orchestrate, construct, mold. The ultimate question is, “Is this realized?” Not so, I believe.
What’s so ironic is that professors with less knowledge, fewer wits tend to show-off apparently not minding and leaving behind erudite ones. Why is this so? How about the corpses? Are they still part of the individuals to be nurtured to become all that they are capable of being? ZSCMST population increased with a higher percentage this year compared last year. The torrent of corpses seeks for AFFORDABLE, QUALITY EDUCATION. But then again, only AFFORDABLE EDUCATION is carried out.
In this fast paced and complicated world of intellectuals involvement is a must. To whom this may concern; carcasses need your substantial ideas not your so-so magnetic flux of non-sense yet alluring notions.
Why settle for mediocrity if excellence is possible? So much with eulogies, let’s face reality. The hourglass has long been dripping; the next thing would be the awakening of everybody from deep slumber. Achieving Primus Inter Pares (first among equals); let it be done.
Oh, I almost forgot. I’d better be heading for my scheduled activity; an espresso with me, myself and I; just to eliminate cutthroat thoughts in my psyche. Hhhm. My belly aches; I need something to devour to suppress my cravings. Tsk..tsk..