At home on (yet) another rainy day

Classes at Nest were suspended again.

It’s been raining pretty hard, non-stop since last night here in Metro Manila. According to the news, Typhoon Juan (international name Megi) has already claimed 10 lives (all from Northern Luzon) and it this typhoon is now termed as “the strongest typhoon to hit the Philippines in four years”.

I’m worried about relatives and friends from up North. It sucks to feel helpless here at home. All I can do is pray for them at this point. 

P.S. Just to keep the mood up this gloomy day, at least I can catch up on some sleep, much needed bonding with my 5-year-old brother…and maybe a bunch of work stuff I need to finish.

Progressive Education in the 1940’s

Here’s an interesting video I found showing the difference between Traditional and Progressive Education.

“We are trying to help the child learn to face actuality. And on this basis build his ideas, his character, his sense of self-reliance; of how to live and wake with others. In a word, we are equipping the child to face his future by learning to face intelligently his immediate present.”

-William Heard Kilpatrick