Education as Not the Only Thing

Apart from pride and arrogance, another thing that he learned about being a student most especially in his alma mater is the reality that even though education does really count in life, it is not still everything.

Though he is a loud and proud UPian, he knows the fact that being a scholar does not just end in obsessing with academics. “Because the real life is what lies outside the premises of the school,” he reasoned. Yes, for him, education matters. But it is also important for people to know that education alone does not stand.

“Diskarte,” he pointed out. He believes that people need this particular thing in order to survive and succeed. “Sometimes, what you just know is not really important because what you can do matters more,” he added.