The problem of education was detected during 1925, it was the excessive use of lingua franca as a language of instruction making the mother language left behind, inability to go to school, are the problem that until today is not yet resolved. Until now, giving up hope to reform the education for the betterment is still not an option to the government.

    The Department of Education in the Philippines is experimenting to know what is better and what would the case scenario if this will be implemented which is known only at the present time. The media never fails to know the solutions of the problem we have been facing every school year.

    Before, the education was excessively controlled centrally making the branch department lose motivation. The tendency was detected by the commonwealth survey (1936), stating that the workload is too much to carry making many of the problems left unsolved. Decentralisation was practiced after 65 years. Given autonomy to the schools, SBM is improving for the end of the activity more accountable. The Governance of Education Act is used by the SBM as policy cover. Unofficially, the SBM implement two programs – TEEP and BEAM. The result is significant and both are successful relative to the pupil’s performance, making feasible changes in the institutional culture of DepEd. 1970 is the year when a flaw was found in reform oriented education project, when it was started since it was originated. One of it is the repetition of errors in medium of instructions implemented which the solution is unknown.

    Many practitioners from DepEd are valuing the privileges of learning-centred paradigm. The DepEd is freeloading to foreign programs, which is absolutely lamentable, making the reform programs into main projects. Reform is experimented first by the DepEd and see the efficacy so to avoid falling into the pit hole. Challenged, it is they’re experience during the experiment due to the pressure from the sponsor not in the line. Results from evaluation then was released, it is presently fathomable the dents of the reform. Some of the power is no absolute to DepEd, which those will be handle by the DBM and other agencies affects the educational reform. Reforms with appropriate policy power and continuity is a must, but policy alone and continuity alone is inadequate. Culture also hinders the policy to pursue and sustain educational reform.

    The blueprint for the process of transforming DepEd’s attitude is a greatest challenge they will encounter. The BESRA was implemented by DepEd to forge the consensus among different stakeholder. BESRA is an unofficial project that reforms basic education system by disintegrating projects. BESRA is not yet made. DepEd giving out its hands to BESRA to reduce the inertia to progress and at the same time making the fibre more strong, a fibre that reforms education by widening the horizon of the institution.

    DepEd experiences the challenge of making the BESRA program feasible. The participation of this challenge means to accurately and precisely organise. Rapid change of government and communities with the large morale for a battle against hindrances is the factor that makes the motivation of making the education of all Filipinos a difference. BERSA is the way to change the road of education for the brighter future. BERSA will change one’s perception by blocking the reforms since George Counts conducted the Monroe Survey (1925).

This reaction paper is about the discussion paper named When Reforms Don’t Transform: Reflections on Institutional Reforms in the Department of Education made by Ma. Cynthia Rose B. Bautista, Allan B.I. Bernardo, and Dina Ocampo of Human Development Network headquartered at DIliman District, Quezon City, and Republic of the Philippines. The author is implying the causes of all the things is our curriculum planner is too short-sighted that makes our problem in our educational system. If not for that, then we will be able to resolve our problem that since George Counts conducted the Monroe Survey in 1925. It is indeed that the curriculum designers are short sighted of the future they are holding.

The Monroe Survey detected the problem that the medium of instruction is excessively using English, the lingua franca. This language is influenced to us by the Americans when the thomasites came in 1901. The thomasites thought our ancestors that A is for apple when apple is not yet popular in the Philippines, leaving the natives into the darkness. We are also experiencing this until now when the subjects (except Filipino) were in English. For example in Science, one of my classmates was in difficulty with stoichiometry because of the language of the book is in highfalutin English. Because of that, she needed to approach an MKO (More knowledgeable others). What if the words are in Filipino language? Will she become an MKO? The answer may be yes, because this is her mother tongue language. As in the book of Lev Semyonovich Vygotsky’s Myshlenie i Rech (1987) said that language plays a vital role in learning. Yes! It is indeed that language involves learning because this is one of the foundations of education, because without language there will be difficulty in transfer of learning between the students and the teacher.

Some of the school’s technology is obsolete to the age we live in today. Today we live in technological age where gadgets are becoming cheaper. As it gets cheaper, even people living in a middle economical class can afford a high end technology. But the problem is most of the people did not use its full potential. Because of fear of the unknown, they are not willing to understand more of the objects capability to do things. So to reduce the fear, technology must be included in the curriculum because at my own experience, I became a risk taker in exploring the things at my computer to use the full potential of its features.

The fear of uncertainty is also one of the factors that makes people not to experiment on the things that have been suggested. Some of the suggestion we know are not experimented to the sense that DepEd is not willing to risk even in a single bit of money. What is the result because of this behaviour? It is the delay of resolving the things it should be done. This kind of behaviour is like a scientist that have discovered the secret formula and it wants to give it to the world, but mental dissonance occur, the fear of failure is so powerful that will make more people die because medicine is not yet released.

There was a story made by Aesop (c. 620–564 BCE) entitled The Fox and the Grapes about the fox trying to reach the grapes in the vine located at unreachable altitude, then it gone sour because he doesn’t even touched the grapes even though it expended all the strength. After that, when he gone away he said,” Oh, you aren't even ripe yet! I don't need any sour grapes.” Our curriculum writers were also like the fox in this story. They are thinking inadequately, making things more entropic in the educational system. The things we are experiencing now because of the short-sightedness of the curriculum designers. Because of their lack of skills of fore sighting, curriculum will rapidly change making the implementers of the curriculum confused and unprepared, making our students also confused because of the over dynamic, making them adjust tirelessly. This event when it is occurring in a long time will make the student lack of motivation, because as Burrhus Frederic Skinner’s theory about operant conditioning (1938), once that people with something that they are not designed to do were given a reinforced once but never repeats will make the people extinct the things they were told to do.

Another effect is the wastage of money, which in the long term bankruptcy occurs. Research requires more money, you need the materials to buy, food, water, and other needs needed for the human being to survive as Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs (1943), said that once that Physiological needs is not satisfy it will ultimately fail. Money is needed to satisfy one’s physiological needs. According to Numbeo, the cost of rent in the Philippines alone as of December 2014 is $66.99 to $669.94 per month, $.56 to $1.12 for 1.5L of water, $.67 to $10.50 for food, and other needed expenditure for survival. When computed with given data for that if the research is done after 10 years or 36266 days, the cost of living is $58658.70 to $297566.40, according to my projection. The expenditure needed for the tools needed for the research is exclusive. What will happen when this repeated many times due to the errors occur cause by the lack of foresight of curriculum designer? The cost will increase as the expended time is longer. By using this analogy, if this goes by this will make debits higher than credits.

According to Fischoff (1975) in a research entitled Hindsight ≠ foresight: The Effect of Outcome Knowledge on Judgment under Uncertainty, it states that a person who judge from history will know a certain behaviour. Our society never learns from the past experiences, this experiences that we have been studied from the History books about years ago were never discovered of their values. They are just looking at the hind because they have been told so or they are the subjects for their interest, i.e. money, power. Our curriculum that we thought to be changing is never like that because we have never learned from people from our hinds that have done a massless action which is absent from the change of state.

Psychologist Piers Steel and Cornelius J. König examined people of the reason of procrastination. They have set up an equation called Temporal Motivation Theory (2006) which is

. Where, CPT is Cumulative Prospect Theory, T is time rewards, t is time now, Γ is the amount of sensitivity to delay, E is expectancy, V is values, n is the number of possible outcomes, i is the index of summation. The equation means that motivation is higher when they expect that this what they are doing is efficacious and it is valuable relative to the person’s interest, but it is degrading when the person realise the situation and they are aware of the delay in a progressive manner. Internationalisation of education in the Philippine Island is expected to be advantageous to our economy and it is recent. Using the equation because the event just recently surface, and this is expected to be efficacious to our economy, it became valuable to the government making their morale strength high, but as time goes by, they act less because the progress is slow, and making them realise that this is nearly impossible, then they will act in a slow progressive manner. This is also one of the cause that reforms never transform, because as written earlier the government never value sincerely the implicit speech of the fore people. If we keep continuing this s things the curriculum will never change and this will cause a more entropic educational system.

General Genetics about Chromosome theory of Inheritance or it is also called Boveri-Sutton theory of inheritance since our 2nd year high school and we know that traits are partially hereditary to the parent’s child by transporting chromosome into the child. (Wikimedia Foundation, 2014) We must be inherited by the Spanish people’s undesirable behaviour, e.g. gambling, procrastination, and etc. We have been experiencing entropic educational system is due to the above agenda because of we have learned from them the procrastination, when this happen then as we have delayed or left this event unnoticed this will worsen making more students left into darkness called ignorance.

Lack of funds in our national treasury is plunging down making the progress in our education progress slowly which degrades our Educational system. As of October 2014, the Bureau of the Treasury reported that the national government’s debt is 342.562 billion pesos while our income was 81.012 billion pesos. We have seen that the government have a large debt in our country. Because of the lack of debt, as written earlier about Piers Steel and Cornelius J. König’s Temporal Motivation Theory (2006), motivation is gained when it is more valuable relative to the people’ interest (as to this case the government’s interest), and it is expected to be efficacious. In this case, our government thought that internationalisation of Curriculum. Many people will thought that our government have learned our mistakes but how about our mother language that has been set aside, then we are going back from where we started which now not that the Americans were influencing us but now we are killing our own mother language like killing our ancestors.

The Commission of Higher Education Memorandum order number 20 or it is called General Education Curriculum: Holistic Understanding, Intellectual and Civic Competencies is one of the educational reform that is issued during the twenty third day of June 2013 by Chairperson Philosophical Doctor Patricia B. Licunanan. Article 1, Section 3, Paragraph 4 of this memoranda lists the number of courses, which in total it contains 36 units. Its core courses are Understanding the Self, Readings in the Philippine History, The Contemporary World, Mathematics in the Modern World, Purposive Communication, Art appreciation, Science, Technology and Society, and Ethics, and its elective courses includes Mathematics, Science and Technology, Social Sciences and Philosophy, and Arts and Humanities or it is also called the A and H. The Filipino Language subject that increases our fluency in Filipino was not included in the list of core courses nor elective courses. This affects to the Filipino people that have been anglicised, and in the long term people will forget the Filipino Language.

This reaction paper is about the discussion paper named When Reforms Don’t Transform: Reflections on Institutional Reforms in the Department of Education made by Ma. Cynthia Rose B. Bautista, Allan B.I. Bernardo, and Dina Ocampo of Human Development Network headquartered at DIliman District, Quezon City, and Republic of the Philippines. The author is implying the causes of all the things is our curriculum planner is too short-sighted that makes our problem in our educational system. If not for that, then we will be able to resolve our problem that since George Counts conducted the Monroe Survey in 1925. It is indeed that the curriculum designers are short sighted of the future they are holding.

The Monroe Survey detected the problem that the medium of instruction is excessively using English, the lingua franca. This language is influenced to us by the Americans when the thomasites came in 1901. The thomasites thought our ancestors that A is for apple when apple is not yet popular in the Philippines, leaving the natives into the darkness. We are also experiencing this until now when the subjects (except Filipino) were in English. For example in Science, one of my classmates was in difficulty with stoichiometry because of the language of the book is in highfalutin English. Because of that, she needed to approach an MKO (More knowledgeable others). What if the words are in Filipino language? Will she become an MKO? The answer may be yes, because this is her mother tongue language. As in the book of Lev Semyonovich Vygotsky’s Myshlenie i Rech (1987) said that language plays a vital role in learning. Yes! It is indeed that language involves learning because this is one of the foundations of education, because without language there will be difficulty in transfer of learning between the students and the teacher.

Some of the school’s technology is obsolete to the age we live in today. Today we live in technological age where gadgets are becoming cheaper. As it gets cheaper, even people living in a middle economical class can afford a high end technology. But the problem is most of the people did not use its full potential. Because of fear of the unknown, they are not willing to understand more of the objects capability to do things. So to reduce the fear, technology must be included in the curriculum because at my own experience, I became a risk taker in exploring the things at my computer to use the full potential of its features.

The fear of uncertainty is also one of the factors that makes people not to experiment on the things that have been suggested. Some of the suggestion we know are not experimented to the sense that DepEd is not willing to risk even in a single bit of money. What is the result because of this behaviour? It is the delay of resolving the things it should be done. This kind of behaviour is like a scientist that have discovered the secret formula and it wants to give it to the world, but mental dissonance occur, the fear of failure is so powerful that will make more people die because medicine is not yet released.

There was a story made by Aesop (c. 620–564 BCE) entitled The Fox and the Grapes about the fox trying to reach the grapes in the vine located at unreachable altitude, then it gone sour because he doesn’t even touched the grapes even though it expended all the strength. After that, when he gone away he said,” Oh, you aren't even ripe yet! I don't need any sour grapes.” Our curriculum writers were also like the fox in this story. They are thinking inadequately, making things more entropic in the educational system. The things we are experiencing now because of the short-sightedness of the curriculum designers. Because of their lack of skills of fore sighting, curriculum will rapidly change making the implementers of the curriculum confused and unprepared, making our students also confused because of the over dynamic, making them adjust tirelessly. This event when it is occurring in a long time will make the student lack of motivation, because as Burrhus Frederic Skinner’s theory about operant conditioning (1938), once that people with something that they are not designed to do were given a reinforced once but never repeats will make the people extinct the things they were told to do.

Another effect is the wastage of money, which in the long term bankruptcy occurs. Research requires more money, you need the materials to buy, food, water, and other needs needed for the human being to survive as Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs (1943), said that once that Physiological needs is not satisfy it will ultimately fail. Money is needed to satisfy one’s physiological needs. According to Numbeo, the cost of rent in the Philippines alone as of December 2014 is $66.99 to $669.94 per month, $.56 to $1.12 for 1.5L of water, $.67 to $10.50 for food, and other needed expenditure for survival. When computed with given data for that if the research is done after 10 years or 36266 days, the cost of living is $58658.70 to $297566.40, according to my projection. The expenditure needed for the tools needed for the research is exclusive. What will happen when this repeated many times due to the errors occur cause by the lack of foresight of curriculum designer? The cost will increase as the expended time is longer. By using this analogy, if this goes by this will make debits higher than credits.

According to Fischoff (1975) in a research entitled Hindsight ≠ foresight: The Effect of Outcome Knowledge on Judgment under Uncertainty, it states that a person who judge from history will know a certain behaviour. Our society never learns from the past experiences, this experiences that we have been studied from the History books about years ago were never discovered of their values. They are just looking at the hind because they have been told so or they are the subjects for their interest, i.e. money, power. Our curriculum that we thought to be changing is never like that because we have never learned from people from our hinds that have done a massless action which is absent from the change of state.

Psychologist Piers Steel and Cornelius J. König examined people of the reason of procrastination. They have set up an equation called Temporal Motivation Theory (2006) which is

. Where, CPT is Cumulative Prospect Theory, T is time rewards, t is time now, Γ is the amount of sensitivity to delay, E is expectancy, V is values, n is the number of possible outcomes, i is the index of summation. The equation means that motivation is higher when they expect that this what they are doing is efficacious and it is valuable relative to the person’s interest, but it is degrading when the person realise the situation and they are aware of the delay in a progressive manner. Internationalisation of education in the Philippine Island is expected to be advantageous to our economy and it is recent. Using the equation because the event just recently surface, and this is expected to be efficacious to our economy, it became valuable to the government making their morale strength high, but as time goes by, they act less because the progress is slow, and making them realise that this is nearly impossible, then they will act in a slow progressive manner. This is also one of the cause that reforms never transform, because as written earlier the government never value sincerely the implicit speech of the fore people. If we keep continuing this s things the curriculum will never change and this will cause a more entropic educational system.

General Genetics about Chromosome theory of Inheritance or it is also called Boveri-Sutton theory of inheritance since our 2nd year high school and we know that traits are partially hereditary to the parent’s child by transporting chromosome into the child. (Wikimedia Foundation, 2014) We must be inherited by the Spanish people’s undesirable behaviour, e.g. gambling, procrastination, and etc. We have been experiencing entropic educational system is due to the above agenda because of we have learned from them the procrastination, when this happen then as we have delayed or left this event unnoticed this will worsen making more students left into darkness called ignorance.

Lack of funds in our national treasury is plunging down making the progress in our education progress slowly which degrades our Educational system. As of October 2014, the Bureau of the Treasury reported that the national government’s debt is 342.562 billion pesos while our income was 81.012 billion pesos. We have seen that the government have a large debt in our country. Because of the lack of debt, as written earlier about Piers Steel and Cornelius J. König’s Temporal Motivation Theory (2006), motivation is gained when it is more valuable relative to the people’ interest (as to this case the government’s interest), and it is expected to be efficacious. In this case, our government thought that internationalisation of Curriculum. Many people will thought that our government have learned our mistakes but how about our mother language that has been set aside, then we are going back from where we started which now not that the Americans were influencing us but now we are killing our own mother language like killing our ancestors.

The Commission of Higher Education Memorandum order number 20 or it is called General Education Curriculum: Holistic Understanding, Intellectual and Civic Competencies is one of the educational reform that is issued during the twenty third day of June 2013 by Chairperson Philosophical Doctor Patricia B. Licunanan. Article 1, Section 3, Paragraph 4 of this memoranda lists the number of courses, which in total it contains 36 units. Its core courses are Understanding the Self, Readings in the Philippine History, The Contemporary World, Mathematics in the Modern World, Purposive Communication, Art appreciation, Science, Technology and Society, and Ethics, and its elective courses includes Mathematics, Science and Technology, Social Sciences and Philosophy, and Arts and Humanities or it is also called the A and H. The Filipino Language subject that increases our fluency in Filipino was not included in the list of core courses nor elective courses. This affects to the Filipino people that have been anglicised, and in the long term people will forget the Filipino Language.