Looking Back

‘Baybayin,’ not ‘alibata’

Classroom history taught me that pre-Spanish syllabary was called “alibata.” By the time I started…

From indigenization to ‘indio-genius’

Every time I am in Cebu, I visit the Basilica Minore del Santo Niño to…

Education reform: Old as history

The continuing deterioration in Philippine Education is crystal clear from the Philippines’ dismal scores in…

DepEd and miseducation

Of all the Cabinet positions within the grant of the president and the approval of…

Where are Bonifacio’s bones?

One hundred and twenty seven years since the Bonifacio brothers, Andres and Procopio, were executed…

Rizal’s blood, Rizal’s brain

Saturnina Rizal de Hidalgo was the National Hero’s eldest sister. She was always “[Se]ñora Neneng”…

May Day, 1903

May Day is Labor Day to many. It is International Workers’ Day. It is “Araw…

Aguinaldo table diplomacy

I was once asked, informally, to comment on a long table of Philippine hardwood that…

Old-fashioned vs online research

I often remind my students that there is a lot more to the internet than…

Death in Malacañang, 1930

It is probably a professional bias, but each time I open the Inquirer online, I…