Developing critical minds in an environment that reeks of conservatism is a contradictory desire. In theory, it is desirable. But in practice, no one wants to nurture a gadfly, which most critical people would turn out to be.
"Care is taken not to expose him to ideas that might galvanize him from his cultural lethargy; then he's berated for being timid," declared Nick Joaquin two scores ago. "Care is taken to keep him cloistered amid the cobwebs of the conservative altar; then he's told to sit up and become a New Filipino."
Sounds like Catholic schools noh?
In fact, this has been manifested in the way our Catholic guardians react when a student in a Catholic school expresses his views with regard to the revelation of Mayor Duterte on the marriage of Fr. Lamata. They mistook the conduct of a curious student as a sacrilege, a blasphemy, or what have you. Instead of looking it as a sign that the student is thinking for himself, he is berated for doing so.
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