These are popular metaphors used to creatively present situations and intellectually illustrate frameworks. For this article, these figures of speech relate to the educational system.Let us get to know these animals and understand the metaphors. The white elephant is a venerable creature that has earned a reputation as a burdensome beast that requires constant care and voracious feeding, but has little or no value.
In the context of lifelong learning, we are yet to create seamless learning pathways amid the still vague qualification frameworks in national, regional and global alignments. The passing rates in board examinations remain low, wasting time and resources of aspiring young Filipinos.Education is still relatively underfunded in a corrupt system.