Views on Philippine Industrialization
...nly serve the interest of the Colonialist (i.e. UP and PNU). English was imposed as the language used in education, business and government. And we were also led to believe that America is our only hope. This permeates in the whole Philippine society. Herein lies the reason why for the longest time the situation of our country has remained backward. US imperialism has no interest of improving the situation of our agricultural and industrial sector. They don’t have to, they already gain profit from the colonial trade of export of cheap raw materials and import of manufactured materials. The most extreme way of solving the problem is through a revolution. The milder side of solving it is through the political will of our bureaucrats to enact laws that protect national sovereignty and laws that will improve our whole economy – national industrialization and improvement of agriculture. The whole educational system needs to be overhauled to prioritize human resource development geared towards industrialization and the improvement of science and technology, especially in the areas of research and development. It may be helpful to learn from the Korean and Taiwanese experience of reaching the status of a newly industrialized country (NIC). There are no shortcuts to industrialization. It has to be a steady course, with the appropriate national policies, to achieve such a goal; and not through frenzied outbursts of unbalanced industrial and human resource development. To improve S&T, scientists have to be trained; for industries to be more efficient, intensive training of the workers; and for a solid agricultural base, modern machineries and agricultural technologies and methods...