Continuous and Further Education
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Given my schedule in public service, politics, media work and small businesses, it took me 2 years and 2 months from the time I started my Doctoral to obtain my Degree. My final Doctoral Dissertation defense took also 4 hours given the 300 page dissertation paper I submitted. It was all worth the sacrifice...October 5, 2009
My mother and father have instilled in me the value of quality education. Since I was a child, we were trained by them to excel in academics, among others, and not just be mediocre at it. Nanay would usually do sample exams and if we don't get a perfect score with those exams, we have to study all over until we perfect it. Nanay also wanted us to go for gold and not settle for silver and bronze. Tatay was there to provide the incentives to make it more worth the while.
After College, I immediately took up a post graduate program in the Asian Institute of Management (AIM). It is a very prestigious and expensive international school. It was a dream of mine to be able to have the privilege of attending school in AIM after having been to La Salle Green Hills for my kindergarten until high school education and Ateneo de Manila University for my AB Economics Degree. I always aimed to get honors, awards and distinctions when I was still in LSGH and ADMU. Even in AIM, I wanted to excel. As such, I pushed myself to the limit and finished the Basic Management Program with a Best Integration Project Award. After AIM, I decided to take up my Masters in UP Diliman. I took up Masters in Public Management major in Local Government Administration. Nanay saw me studying so much for it that she told me just pass the program and it's ok. I smiled at her and told her but Nay you trained me to excel in everything I do and that got a smile back from her. I was honored, blessed and humbled to finish the youngest in my batch (age 26) and even much earlier than those who started the Masteral Program with me. A few months after obtaining my Masters, I decided to take up Doctoral studies from the Central Philippine University, one of the oldest universities in the Philippines which is located in Iloilo City. Some told me it was going to be easy since I had training from schools in Manila. Some told me choose a better school. Others said it would take me about 3 years or more to obtain a Doctoral Degree.
Well, it was actually not easy to obtain a Doctoral Degree especially from CPU. It took hours of research, immersions, face to face classes, hours of doing papers and months and months to finish one's dissertation. The members of the faculty of the Central Philippine University (CPU) are superb. They have international backgrounds and even areconsultants of big companies and international firms. Some of them even have multiple Masters and Doctoral Degrees. Furthermore, they also gave lessons that were challenging and insightful. I would like to say that it is a very good graduate school. It has great products that are now part of various sectors of the community here and abroad who hold sensitive positions of responsibility. Furthermore, on the aspect of how long one can obtain a Doctoral, well, it depends on one's commitment and goal. I told myself I will finish in 2 years and I did. I obtained it two months after I left my twenties.
Anything is possible once we set our sights on it and make sure we see it through. I believe with what Tatay told me before that quality education and knowledge as its product are treasures which can never be taken away from us.
Let us continue to learn. Everyday gives us an opportunity to learn something new.
My mother and father have instilled in me the value of quality education. Since I was a child, we were trained by them to excel in academics, among others, and not just be mediocre at it. Nanay would usually do sample exams and if we don't get a perfect score with those exams, we have to study all over until we perfect it. Nanay also wanted us to go for gold and not settle for silver and bronze. Tatay was there to provide the incentives to make it more worth the while.
After College, I immediately took up a post graduate program in the Asian Institute of Management (AIM). It is a very prestigious and expensive international school. It was a dream of mine to be able to have the privilege of attending school in AIM after having been to La Salle Green Hills for my kindergarten until high school education and Ateneo de Manila University for my AB Economics Degree. I always aimed to get honors, awards and distinctions when I was still in LSGH and ADMU. Even in AIM, I wanted to excel. As such, I pushed myself to the limit and finished the Basic Management Program with a Best Integration Project Award. After AIM, I decided to take up my Masters in UP Diliman. I took up Masters in Public Management major in Local Government Administration. Nanay saw me studying so much for it that she told me just pass the program and it's ok. I smiled at her and told her but Nay you trained me to excel in everything I do and that got a smile back from her. I was honored, blessed and humbled to finish the youngest in my batch (age 26) and even much earlier than those who started the Masteral Program with me. A few months after obtaining my Masters, I decided to take up Doctoral studies from the Central Philippine University, one of the oldest universities in the Philippines which is located in Iloilo City. Some told me it was going to be easy since I had training from schools in Manila. Some told me choose a better school. Others said it would take me about 3 years or more to obtain a Doctoral Degree.
Well, it was actually not easy to obtain a Doctoral Degree especially from CPU. It took hours of research, immersions, face to face classes, hours of doing papers and months and months to finish one's dissertation. The members of the faculty of the Central Philippine University (CPU) are superb. They have international backgrounds and even areconsultants of big companies and international firms. Some of them even have multiple Masters and Doctoral Degrees. Furthermore, they also gave lessons that were challenging and insightful. I would like to say that it is a very good graduate school. It has great products that are now part of various sectors of the community here and abroad who hold sensitive positions of responsibility. Furthermore, on the aspect of how long one can obtain a Doctoral, well, it depends on one's commitment and goal. I told myself I will finish in 2 years and I did. I obtained it two months after I left my twenties.
Anything is possible once we set our sights on it and make sure we see it through. I believe with what Tatay told me before that quality education and knowledge as its product are treasures which can never be taken away from us.
Let us continue to learn. Everyday gives us an opportunity to learn something new.
