The other day, as I am wont to do as a psychologist, I wondered about Andal Ampatuan Jr. - what kind of person he was, on what values he was raised on, and how much education he got. Answers to these questions might put to rest two other questions which kept on being replayed in mind: "How could he do the things eyewitnesses said he did to other people?" and "How did he and his collaborators think they could get away with it?"
As if in response to my curiousity, a day or two later, the newspaper had an article which described the kind of education he got. He was a freshman high school drop-out from a Catholic school. Even more revealing to me that his own father only got to Grade 4. Maybe
Is man really born evil? Like a being not created in the likeness of a God. Do we need to be molded into beings who can live harmoniously with his or her fellow human being? Do we need need to master rules to foster order. Education to my biased teacher's mind humanizes you. Or reminds you what it means to be human.
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