OPINION | Department of miseducation [Vantage Point By Luis V. Teodoro] READ:
Whether old or new , as purveyors of information the media can shackle the mind or free it, and deter change or accelerate it. So can the educational system provide the knowledge and understanding that can liberate men and women from ignorance — or keep them in its depths by miseducating them.
The political economy of the dominant media — their being commercial enterprises in the hands of economic interests whose protection and advancement depends on government goodwill — has led to institutional and practitioner self-censorship, among other consequences. Although privately owned, some media organizations are besieged by such other problems as government threats and harassment, which prevent them from fully discharging the ethical and professional responsibilities of truth-telling.
It was accused of promoting “godlessness” and “subversion” in the late 1950s. A number of its professors were brought before the House of Representatives Committee on Anti-Filipino Activities and interrogated for publishing a document in one of its research journals on how the tenancy system was driving the peasantry to rebellion. Martial law shut it down for weeks.
The quality of the products of any system is what best describes it, its capacities as well as its flaws. There are basic education graduates who have not even heard of Adolf Hitler, for example, despite that monster’s slaughter of more than six million Jews and other “undesirables” ; his having committed the worst crime in all of human history; and his starting a war that killed an additional 50 million people in Europe alone.
Among the consequences of mass ignorance of those dark periods in history is the failure to appreciate the value of human rights and to understand how barbaric dictatorships can be. To many Filipinos, despotism is either an abstraction that has nothing to do with human lives — or, worse, a benevolent and even necessary option in times of crisis.
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