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Saturday, April 19, 2025

Lifelong Learning

2025: A Year of Possibilities

BY EDISON MARTE SICAD “More smiling, less worrying. More compassion, less judgment. More blessed, less stressed. More love, less hate.” – Roy T. Bennett I HAVE...

A high five to 2025

BY EDISON MARTE SICAD “I close my eyes to old ends. And open my heart to new beginnings.”—Nick Frederickson I BELIEVE in the power of starting...

‘A December to Remember’

BY EDISON MARTE SICAD “This Christmas season, we must once again find a balance within our busy lives: between giving and receiving, between work and...

Days over decades

BY EDISON MARTE SICAD MORE than two decades ago, I participated in a leadership training organized by the student council. It was held on a...

Monumental laziness

BY EDISON MARTE SICAD “I like the word ‘indolence’. It makes my laziness seem classy.” — Bernard Williams A FRIEND once shared to me how he...

Endorsing depression

BY EDISON MARTE SICAD “The poverty of the incapable, the distress that comes upon the imprudent, the starvation of the idle, and those shoulderings aside...

‘A nation of misfits’

BY EDISON MARTE SICAD “It is time indeed that the State took decisive steps to regulate and enrich our system of education by directing the...

‘For goodness’ sake’

BY EDISON MARTE SICAD “Are you planning to follow a career in Magical Law, Miss Granger?” asked Scrimgeour. “No, I’m not,” retorted Hermione. “I’m hoping...

Ask and it is given; but be careful what you wish for

BY EDISON MARTE SICAD That night, God appeared to Solomon and said to him, "Ask for whatever you want, and I, your God, shall give...

The core values of Augustinian education

BY EDISON MARTE SICAD "Let our searching be such that we can be sure of finding, and let our finding be such that we may...