When I was a young instructor at the University, the first thing I would often discuss with my students, mostly freshmen and women, was the motto that would guide our class: “Ruthless criticism of everything existing,” which is a quote by a young Marx.
I was fortunate that I took some of my General Education subjects at the University of the Philippines Diliman, though I'd already finished most of them at the seminary where I came from. It was not UP Diliman that initiated me into “activism,” but my seminary. I was a “Christian Marxist” when I transferred to UP because of liberation theology. And I have never regretted having Leftist teachers in the seminary, most of whom were friars. It was good preparation for UP.
I found my undergraduate progressive classes more enjoyable compared to those that simply used the banking method of education. In most cases, of course, I had no choice but to endure reactionary teachers. So, to make these latter classes interesting for me, I often engaged my teachers as well as classmates to debates, putting forward radical assertions and raising questions.
In my 25 years of teaching in the University, I can say that indoctrination is alien to UP's culture. When students do not like their teachers or subjects, either the students drop from their classes, or they become recalcitrant and resist the ideas of their teachers. Students come to the University not as blank slates. They already have compacted convictions – remaining Christian to the end of their life being the most resolute one.
As,for the faculty, wala naman akong nalaman na NPA, pero hinde ko lang din alam kung sumusuporta sila. But, sa mga taong nakapalibot👉very positive na merong nagre-recruit.
I think that we should protect the students, their family...their dreams. Let them serve our government, our country in a right and legal way. Hinde maayos ang Pilipinas hanggat may mga taong pumapasok sa armadong pakikibaka.
I am a UP grad, yes NOT all are against our govt, but NPA are really busy recruiting students. ONE of my batch mates DIED! Two gone missing. PERO SILANG TATLO AY NAG-NPA.
Try entering the IAS(Institute of Animal Science), you can find several big red vandals saying “SUMALI SA NPA” at several building walls located there, even the roads had it. The fraternity called Pi Sigma, an anti govt org, recruiting leftist students