We, Filipinos, have high regards to education.  We believe that education serves as the ladder to success. Like a ladder, it composes of different levels: the elementary, the secondary and the tertiary. Usually, what level one has finished may define his future.

Though those who arrive first atop the ladder have the greater potentials to succeed, education is not a race of who comes first or last. It is a race of survival and a brighter future in the finish line awaits those who can persevere. At the end of every race, what most important are the lessons learned and experiences acquired throughout the track because these make you who you are at present and what you will be in the future, just like what Claude Adrien Helvetius once said, “Education made us what we are.”

That is the power of education. It transforms an individual from being innocent to minded, from childish to professionals, from inferior to superior. But its true power relies on the hands of the students who are considered as the youth. It depends on how much the youth will persevere and survive the race in the field of education. If the youth will be educated, then we will have the power to change the future for the betterment of the country. Thus, education is so powerful that it can change even the future.

By: Ms. Ligaya H. Morfe | Teacher I | Pablo Roman National High School | Orion, Bataan