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'Asia’s poor have traditionally valued education, so much that they have been willing to sell prized possessions like family heirlooms and the father’s farming right hand — the carabao — just to send their children to school.' Opinion
whenever available. We never knew we had the ideal system — until we lost it via Wuhan, perhaps forever.UNESCO says it in bureaucratese, which somehow sounds more impressive: “Education itself will be defined by a new schism — theand practices before COVID-19, and those that will come to define the next generation of learning.” Amen.
Study from home is the most obvious option. But while the universities may be able to do this, the primary and secondary levels cannot because of sheer numbers. The divide between the digital haves and have-nots stand in the way. Most of these Asian countries do not have the digital infrastructure and technology to deliver the educational messages.
In the middle are the Asian giants — China with 59% internet penetration, India with 40%, and Indonesia with 62%. The mix of ASEAN countries range from Brunei with 95%, Singapore 88%, and Malaysia 81%, to Laos 42%, Cambodia 47%, and Myanmar 40%. A blended approach proposed by the Philippines may work. The blended approach, as the name implies, is a combination of methodologies to deliver the knowledge.
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