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Wednesday, January 29, 2025

Lifelong Learning

Stream of consciousness

BY EDISON MARTE SICAD Stream of consciousness: a discontinuous succession of images and ideas, connected by association rather than logical sequential thought (The Reader’s Companion...

Pulling your own strings (5 of 5)

BY EDISON MARTE SICAD “Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who...

Pulling your own strings (4 of 5)

BY EDISON MARTE SICAD “HE IS NOT the idealistic young man he had been back at home. Being in power had changed him. He had...

Pulling your own strings (3 of 5)

“IT FUELS his nationalism and patriotism. It gives him a sense of fulfillment. But at the same time, he becomes indifferent to human suffering.” This...

Pulling your own strings (2 of 5)

BY EDISON MARTE SICAD “There is no such thing as work-life balance. There are only work-life choices.” I learned this statement or assertion from two well-known...

Pulling your own strings (1 of 5)

BY EDISON MARTE SICAD “The medicine that can cure us may also be the poison that can kill us.” WHEN Doña Teodora warned her son, Jose...

Context be damned

“
Orwell feared that what we hate will ruin us. Huxley feared that what we love will ruin us
” â€“Neil Postman, from his book Amusing Ourselves...

‘You are all winners’

I WOULD often hear this declaration before the announcement of winners. And this kind of encouragement — or motivation — is mostly given to...

Learning about personal responsibility

BY EDISON MARTE SICAD THE DRUDGERY of daily work can dissipate one’s energy or passion to serve. And if we include office politics and family...

To graduate with honor(s)

BY EDISON MARTE SICAD FOR THE past couple of weeks, one of the trending topics on social media was graduation. Such an event created debatable...