Source: Probe Files Interview and http://www.gibo.

ph

Student Loan Program

Exhaust all means to give everyone the proper college education--Aside from usual scholarships
and state subsidies, creative solutions should also be implemented to give every Filipino the
education that is rightfully his.

One specific example for this is a loan system for the less fortunate, but deserving students in the
tertiary level. When a student applies for a loan, he will be given a Social Security System (SSS)
number. Immediately after he gets his first paycheck, it will register that he is getting a salary and
subsequent deductions could be made.

How do you intend to improve the literacy of our children in the public schools?

GT: Teaching in English would help a lot for our literacy. Teaching in English opens a lot of
avenues for greater literacy which is the stepping stone in technical fields and other fields. Going
back to the meat of the question, this is once again a resource decision. We cannot do that
without adequate resources. The solution is to expand the revenue base, constitutionally &
legally, and through enhanced fiscal measures and with efficient tax collection.

What are your plans for those students who can't support their studies?

Aside from usual scholarships and state subsidies, creative solutions should also be implemented
to give every Filipino the education that is rightfully his. One specific example for this is a loan
system for the less fortunate, but deserving students in the tertiary level. When a student applies
for a loan, he will be given a Social Security System (SSS) number. Immediately after he gets his
first paycheck, it will register that he is getting a salary and subsequent deductions could be made

What is the best way to upgrade the quality of education?

Teaching in English would help a lot for our literacy. Teaching in English opens a lot of avenues
for greater literacy which is the stepping stone in technical fields and other fields. This is once
again a resource decision. We cannot do that without adequate resources. The solution is to
expand the revenue base, constitutionally and legally and through enhanced fiscal measures and
with efficient tax collection.

What is you opinion on the current technical school situation?

On the contrary, I don’t think they are not good enough. Technical education has been performing
very well in this country. To the credit of TESDA, it has been able to produce a lot of skillful
technical workers. What needs to be change is the bias of Filipino parents and Filipino public
against technical education. We have to prove that there is value in technical education,
technically educated people can lead, and they can be engines of change in the community so as
for the younger people to aspire to have technical education.

How can values and cultural restoration be effectively integrated in our system of
education?

Let us focus on cultural restoration. First, let us be clear on the kinds of culture we wish to
restore. The country should be happy in its cultural diversity. It is to our advantage that we have
cultural diversity. This is something that we must strengthen instead of breaking up. We must
encourage languages and dialects. There must be mutual tolerance with knowledge and respect.

Source: http://www.tribune.net.ph/metro/20091221met2.html
Gibo's program: Let the poor graduate out of poverty

Gilberto “Gibo” Teodoro Jr. has vowed to prioritize economic programs aimed at helping “the poor
graduate out of poverty.”

The former Defense secretary said his platform of government is focused on battling poverty by
creating, among other things, greater opportunities for small- and medium-scale entrepreneurship
and opening to the poor access to loans on less burdensome conditions.

At the minimum, Teodoro said, his goal is to have “at least one college graduate in every family.”

Gibo said the Lakas-Kampi-CMD has a program to expand public health services and to achieve
sustainable development that will respect the rights of citizens.

Teodoro reiterated this yesterday after a rousing visit to St. Paul’s University in Manila where he
and his running mate, Edu Manzano, were mobbed by some 2,000 enthusiastic students at the
school auditorium.

The 1989 Bar topnotcher and Harvard-trained lawyer stressed that a Teodoro administration
would strongly guard individual rights by establishing credible institutions of government.

“The only way to stop the exploitation of the poor by politicians is to make the poor affluent,”
Teodoro said, adding “the government must capacitate them and ensure that the poor graduate
out of poverty.”

He stressed that “affluence buys knowledge that will empower the poor.”

Teodoro, who took over as Lakas-Kampi-CMD chairman last month, said his party has a “centrist
humanist vision, and the individual is of primary importance” in the agenda of government.

“Let us tell the people that our party stands for life, liberty and prosperity,” he added.

He said he will expand the network of physical infrastructures already in place to interconnect all
regions of the country from Northern Luzon through the Visayas to Southern Mindanao.

According to Gibo, he would expand the program on alternative and renewable energy to lessen
dependence on imported fuel.

“I will advance the frontier of public-private sector partnerships,” Teodoro stressed.

Source: http://www.eleksyon.co.cc/gilbert-teodoros-platform/

Preparing our children for the future

Our children should be well equipped with the right skills and knowledge base to be globally
competitive. Gibo pushes for academic excellence and a better curriculum, because he feels, the
current curriculum is light in technical skills, mathematics, and English. By recommendation, a
substantial and additional two years to the original six years of elementary is needed to prepare
young Filipinos for four years of secondary education.

Exhaust all means to give everyone the proper college education

Loan Program

Aside from usual scholarships and state subsidies, creative solutions should also be implemented
to give every Filipino the education that is rightfully his. One specific example for this is a loan
system for the less fortunate, but deserving students in the tertiary level. When a student applies
for a loan, he will be given a Social Security System (SSS) number. Immediately after he gets his
first paycheck, it will register that he is getting a salary and subsequent deductions could be
made.

Source: http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/nation/view/20091212-241567/Prioritize-public-
schools-reforms--Teodoro

Presidential candidate Gilberto “Gibo” Teodoro Jr. on Friday urged the government to prioritize
educational reform to improve the country’s public schools and lift their performance and
efficiency to a level comparable to that of the private sector.

Teodoro, Lakas-Kampi CMD standard-bearer, made this call after being conferred a doctorate in
public administration (honoris causa) by the Polytechnic University of the Philippines in
recognition of the former defense secretary’s outstanding performance as a national government
leader. More than 1,000 students gathered at the PUP gymnasium in Sta. Mesa, Manila, for the
occasion as Teodoro fleshed out his platform on education reform.

Public schools and institutions are performing poorly, Teodoro said, because their qualified staff
lacked the support and mechanism to become better workers.

“We have more-than-qualified personnel to man our public institutions,” he said in a press
statement. “What is preventing them from being more efficient is the lack of infrastructure and
support mechanisms that will make them better workers.”

Teodoro also proposed that qualified civil servants be made to undergo management training in
private firms to instruct them in the best management style of a particular sector and apply it later
in managing public institutions.

Teodoro said the support infrastructure should be a doctrine allowing government employees to
seek higher education or training relevant to their positions.

Ties that bind

He urged the government to “put our money where our mouth is…we must invest financially and
intellectually in the development of public institutions.”

He said public institutions are the “ties that bind and bridge society, especially the poorer sectors,
together.”

Teodoro also said the lack of a proper incentive and reward system for public employees is
forcing many qualified government workers to migrate to private and international institutions for
higher salaries and benefits.

“I do not blame them for going someplace else in their desire to better themselves and their
families. But I am urging the government to institute reforms where quality work of our
government employees will be rewarded financially,” Teodoro said.

Source: http://www.mb.com.ph/node/239478/gibo-vow

Gibo vows more funds to public schools

Lakas-Kampi CMD presidential candidate Gilberto "Gibo" Teodoro Jr. has vowed to allocate more
resources to the country’s public schools in a bid to make the Filipino youth more competitive to
face future global challenges.
“My time in UP taught me not to be a bigot and a hypocrite. In UP, students are taught not to
judge their fellows by their political or family connection," Teodoro said, during a forum at the
University of the Philippines in Iloilo.

The 45-year-old Teodoro shared his experience in UP-Manila where he attended school following
the February 1986 EDSA People Power Revolution for his law education.

Despite their association with the late dictator Ferdinand Edralin Marcos, particularly his father
Gilberto Teodoro Sr. who then served as chairman of the Social Security System (SSS), he never
felt ostracized or prejudiced by UP students who were known to be critical of the Marcos family
and their friends.

Teodoro – who also earned a masters degree at the Harvard Law School after he topped the bar
exams in the Philippines – had earlier urged the national government to prioritize the
improvement of public education to raise the level of its performance and efficiency comparable
to those of the private sector.

The former defense chief emphasized the need to upgrade the education of the country’s youth to
prepare them for global competitiveness.

The UP system has been a bastion of freedom and civil rights—a treasured tradition he hopes
can help enhance his vision of the Philippines becoming the “fullest and purest functioning
democracy” in the region.