03/11/2025
๐ ๐ฃ๐๐๐จ๐ก๐จ๐ก๐๐๐ก ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ฎ๐ฒ ๐ง๐๐๐ ๐ | Limatรก: Dismantling Unfreedoms Through Education โ๏ธโ๐ฅโ๏ธ
Knowledge through education is often described as the one thing no one can take away from you. It is both a weapon and a shield, one that empowers the mind to think critically, to act with compassion and to recognize what is just. It builds oneโs capabilities and opens doors of opportunity, but most importantly, it paves the path toward dismantling the unfreedoms that have long held societies captive โ poverty, tyranny, and social deprivation โ that most nations suffers from.
However, despite this truth, education itself stands at the edge of crisis. Plummeting literacy rates, declining learning outcomes and widening inequalities reveal how unfreedom persists even in the very system that should abolish it. The Philippines remains one of the most affected, with many students struggling to access quality education.
In Pangasinan, the scarcity of educators and the lack of educational support have led to rising drop-out rates and declining academic performance. These challenges mirror a national crisis, one that reflects how systemic neglect can deny children not just learning, but the very chance to dream. Addressing this means returning to the core of education: inclusion, equity, and community.
Thus, UP Subol Society is ready for a call to abolish these unfreedoms, to advance through life, through education. It will address issues and inequalities that students face that hinder them from achieving inclusive development. It recognizes the importance of implementing the use of different languages in the Philippines in the context of education. In Pangasinan, the majority of the spoken languages are Pangasinan and Ilocano, which also reflects their knowledge and lived experience that is embedded in their respective languages. This shows the significance of language in learning and understanding concepts and lessons.
Padunungan 2026 stands as a commitment to build communities that nurture, to create spaces that empower, and to raise a generation of Filipinos who are not only free, but also ingrained with the need to give back to the community.
At the end of the day, it is only through education can freedom truly begin to answer.