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ACQ Education yields Champions

In just a short span of operation, Jose Maria College has become an institutional byword in the education industry.

With a humble intention of giving quality education first before profit and with strong passion for academic excellence, the founding President Pastor Apollo C. Quiboloy established JMC in 2002.

JMC humbly started as an academy. The school in just less than a year turned out to become Jose Maria College. Today, JMC is continuously developing its curriculum and other relevant courses for the purpose of what the Founding President call ACQ Education or Assured Consistent Quality Education.

The campus as observed is a milieu of beauty and serenity making it conducive for learning. With its beautiful and clean environment, the school has become a venue for conferences and tour visits of students and faculty coming as far as Southern Mindanao.

The school has become a ground of young achievers. For the school year 2006-2007 alone, the school has already produced a score of champions in various fields. Names after names are continuously added as the current school year is coming to a close.

BRAIN PATTERNS?!

As I browse the cyberspace, a website which promises readers to read brain patterns painted mine with these words:

You're a simple thinker, and this is actually a very good thing.
You don't complicate matters when you don't have to.
You look for the simplest explanation or solution, and you go with that.
As a result, your mind is uncluttered and free of stress.

You have a dreamy mind, full of fancy and fantasy.
You have the ability to stay forever entertained with your thoughts.
People may say you're hard to read, but that's because you're so internally focused.
But when you do share what you're thinking, people are impressed with your imagination.

Hitting the Nail

Alan Cayetano Gambit: make accusations without evidence, engineer hysterical confrontations, catch media attention, build name-recall and win the next elections. Although it degrades the quality of public discourse, it is apparently an effective way to win elective office.

Uncivilized
FIRST PERSON By Alex Magno
Saturday, September 29, 2007

Merry writing

Study: Simple Writing Makes You Look Smart

By Robert Roy Britt, LiveScience Managing Editor

posted: 31 October 2005 08:26 am ET

Many fledgling writers have been taught the mnemonic KISS: Keep it simple, stupid. A new study backs the wisdom of that advice.

Long words used needlessly along with complicated font styles -- two tactics employed routinely by students trying to pad their work -- are perceived as coming from less intelligent writers.

Or, to put it simply: Short words and classic fonts make you look smart.

Daniel Oppenheimer at Princeton University conducted five experiments manipulating the complexity of vocabulary or font style. Samples included graduate school applications, sociology dissertation abstracts, and translations of a work by Descartes.

Times New Roman, the default font for Internet text and writing programs like Microsoft Word, was contrasted by the italicized Juice font (the sort of font you might see in a homemade newsletter that's trying to be more than it is).

The simple writing done in the easy-to-read font tended to be rated as coming from a more intelligent author than the more complex drafts.

"Anything that makes a text hard to read and understand, such as unnecessarily long words or complicated fonts, will lower readers' evaluations of the text and its author," Oppenheimer said.

He added, though, that the study does not suggest long words are inherently bad, but only that using them needlessly is a problem. So why do so many people do it?

"The continuing popularity amongst students of using big words and attractive font styles may be due to the fact that they may not realize these techniques could backfire," Oppenheimer said. "One thing seems certain: write as simply and plainly as possible and it's more likely you'll be thought of as intelligent."

Widening our horizons

Geniuses are Just Like Us

By Robin Lloyd, Special to LiveScience

posted: 11 January 2006 07:49 am ET

Everyone has heard of the mad scientist or the absent-minded professor. But a look at some of the ordinary and extraordinary imperfections of a few great minds reveals that geniuses are just like us.

Albert Einstein, who came up with the theories of special and general relativity, enjoyed the company of other women while he was married. His second wife was his first cousin. He lived with her for five years before divorcing his first wife with whom he had a child before they were married.

Charles Darwin, father of evolutionary theory, agonized as a single man over whether or not to marry at all. He drew up a list of pros and cons, saying a wife was “better than a dog anyhow ... but [a] terrible loss of time.” He married soon thereafter, his lifelong mate.

More of the same

Richard Feynman, a Nobel prize-winning physicist who helped develop the atomic bomb and figure out the source of the shuttle Challenger explosion, visited strip clubs nearly daily near his home in California. He mainly worked on lectures and equations there.

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But for breaks, Feynman would watch the dancers and draw them. His wife, his third marriage by this time, was fine with this.

Sigmund Freud, who revealed the psychology of the unconscious in his numerous writings and was generally a nice guy, got into intense verbal scraps with his male friends due to his unresolved feelings of omnipotence, according to John Simmons, author of “The Scientific 100” (Citadel Press, 2000).

On the home front

Isaac Newton, who arrived at three laws of motion and a law of gravity that explained that the physical world was governed by mathematics, was reared by his grandmother after his father died and his mother remarried a man whom Newton loathed, Simmons writes.

Newton had a tendency toward unnecessarily bitter and violent rages with his colleagues and friends, and he did some mid-life career hopping, including a lackluster stint in Parliament.

Marie Curie, who discovered radioactivity, lived with her husband in a sparsely furnished apartment because she hated housework. While the couple did their research in a leaky shed, they had little money and would cheer themselves up by sitting next to the stove with a cup of hot tea. She later received two Nobel prizes.

Paul Erdos, one of the 20th century’s greatest mathematicians and whose work laid the foundations for computer science, lived out of a suitcase and was a poor earner for most of his life. He said property was a nuisance and relied on the kindness of friends for food and clothing.

What makes genius?

Not convinced that geniuses are just like us? Simmons says the true similarity lies in how nurture meets nature.

In other words, the talents that geniuses are born with, such as math, cognitive and creative skills, must be nurtured socially and economically in childhood or they die on the vine, with rare exceptions, Simmons told LiveScience.

Same goes for “the rest of us” and our slightly less spectacular talents.

“The scientific genius who grew up in grinding poverty is an exceedingly rare bird,” he said. “If it seems there was a great flowering of scientific genius out of Eastern Europe beginning in the late nineteenth century, it was due in large part to a developing middle class, a stable family life, and secular opportunities for both men and women."

sounds interesting!

Recipe for Genius Revealed

By Sara Goudarzi, LiveScience Staff Writer

posted: 19 December 2006 03:38 pm ET

If you think the innate talents of your child alone will produce the next Albert Einstein, think again.

The real recipe for producing a bright-minded adult, according to a new study, calls for a few ingredients—cognitive abilities, educational opportunities, interest, and plain old hard work.

The 35-year study, published online on Dec. 18 by the journal Perspectives on Psychological Science, tracked 5,000 mathematically gifted individuals throughout their lives, beginning at age 12. Success was measured by the number of patents earned, tenures secured at universities and income, among other factors.

“We found that mathematical gifts and a variety of aptitudes have a significant impact, but that special educational opportunities and commitment can dramatically increase this impact,” said study co-author David Lubinski, a researcher at Vanderbilt University. “These students are intellectually gifted, and those gifts are best fully realized when they have the full support and understanding of their teachers, their parents and their social network.”

Lubinski and his colleagues also found that even amongs the cognitive elite, individual abilities vary. Previous theories stated that differences among the very top students are doubtful.

Individual differences in that range have a lot of educational and vocational implications and they even have implications for creativity, Lubinski told LiveScience. “What we have done, for example, is compare the top and bottom quartiles within that range and we find that the top quartiles earn many more patents, are more likely to get a Ph.D., and have higher incomes.”

In all these cases, however, the gifted kids identified by the researchers learned at rapid rates and needed their educational curriculum structured so it matched with their learning rates to avoid boredom and enhance their maximum development.

But after that, these kids are individuals and have all the strengths, weaknesses and variations in interest and personality that you see in the human condition and they shouldn’t be treated as a categorical type, Lubinski said.

DEEP

KILLING MYSELF

Chelyn Torejas

I AM KILLING MYSELF!

TO GET OVER WHO I AM.

I AM IN COMPETITION OF MY REFLECTION

TO COVET A VICTORIOUS CONCLUSION.

BE +++!

"Promise yourself to be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind.

Look at the sunny side of everything and make your
optimism come true.

Think only of the best,
work only for the best,
and expect only the best.

Forget the mistakes of the past
and press on to the greater achievements of the future.

Give so much time to the improvement of yourself
that you have no time to criticize others.

Live in the faith that
the whole world is on your side
so long as you are true
to the best that is in you!"

- Christian D. Larson

killing myself!

"If you don’t have the killer instinct in this business...

you are all dead.

I am a killer everyday in my life.

I want it

and I just don’t really want it,

I’ll kill for it.

Not by stepping on people

but I’ll kill for it because I’m going to kill myself

proving myself

that I DESERVE to be here."

Jose Javier Reyes, Director.

From Kookie

from Kuki

Magkabilaan ni Joey Ayala.

ang katotohanan ay may dalawang mukha
ang tama sa iyo ay mali sa tingin ng iba
may puti may itim, liwanag at dilim
may pumapaibabaw, at may sumasailalim

ang tubig ay sa apoy, ang lupa ay sa langit
ang araw ay sa gabi, ang lamig naman ay sa init
kapag nawala ang isa, ang isa'y di mababatid
ang malakas at ang mahina'y magkapatid

magkabilaan ang mundo
magkabilaan ang mundo
magkabilaan ang mundo

ang hirap ng marami ay sagana ng iilan
ang nagpapakain, walang laman ang tiyan
ang nagpapanday ng gusali at lansangan
maputik ang daan tungo sa dampang tahanan

may mga haring walang kapangyarihan
mayroon ding alipin na masmalaya pa sa karamihan
may mga sundalo na sarili ang kalaban
at may pinapaslang na nabubuhay nang walang hanggan

magkabilaan ang mundo
magkabilaan ang mundo
magkabilaan ang mundo

may kaliwa't may kanan sa ating lipunan
patuloy ang pagtutunggali, patuloy ang paglalaban
pumanig ka, pumanig ka. huwag nang ipagpaliban pa
ang di makapagpasiya ay maiipit sa gitna

bulok na ang haligi ng ating lipunan
matibay ang pananalig na ito'y palitan
suriin mong mabuti ang iyong paninindigan
pagka’t magkabilaan ang mundo

magkabilaan ang mundo
magkabilaan ang mundo
magkabilaan ang mundo

.joeyayala.

HAPPY HOLIDAYS

MERRY CHRISTMAS

I wake up today with the jingle of the bells. Our neighbor has been playing songs of Christmas! Time is really skyrocketing! Without knowing it, its Christmas, my favorite holiday. The song has added a sprinkle of happiness, a dash of celebration, a glimpse of excitement and a time to contemplate

It is the time when monsters become good. When people become givers. When there is sharing. There are a lot of things to talk. I need to express every detail of it. Next time….

Questions

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Two years after being freed from martial law, I was born. Today, in the clashing of gadgetry, in the fast assimilation of diverse cultures, in pursuing the unkown, in the metamorphosis of fashion, in the revolution of politics, lays my freedom to be SIMPLE!

I can’t understand as to why people with intelligent minds, choose to prefer the other meaning of beauty. The world has a twisted contention about it. I can’t understand why a great university chose to use their minds to destabilize power. I can’t understand as to why media prefer to choose to act as an adversary hitting our country badly. I can’t understand as why life should be lived complicatedly. I can’t understand as why people need to brag this and that. I can’t understand as to why some people act like animals do.

Aren’t people good for helping people? Aren’t we learning from our past? DO we really need to commit big mistakes before we can learn? Are we abusing too much freedom?

I don’t know. That is why I am painting all the questions I have today. But one thing I am sure of knowing… Some questions needs to remain unanswered. Time will come in my sojourn when I will know every inch of it.

It seems like we are creating a short story out of what the situation is. Elite versus Elite. People versus people. Personal attacks over emotional weakening. Can’t you see, THE SETTING OF THE OUTER WORLD HAS BECOME A GREAT MOTIVATOR AS TO HOW PEOPLE ACT AND THINK. Make your way of how to sing the song “WE CAN MAKE A DIFERRENCE, WE CAN MAKE A CHANGE”.

We plant trees of hope. We sow seeds of tomorrow because we are anticipating the future. Dare to help! Dare to be involved! We study hard because it can make us a better person. It’s the mathematics of economy. Don’t you know that better person equals better jobs equal better salary also equals better tax equals better revenues equals better economy.

Sometimes, in the silence of the night, break a time to contemplate. Analyze things, solve simple problems. That’s the art of exercising your brain. THINK! As I will do the same.