Pushing knowledge...

How nice it is to hear that someone' has the desire to impart education to the most needy in the community. I am referring to the news I heard on the radio about this Filipino guy, Efren Peñaflorida, who was cited by CNN as a hero -- a recognition for his effort at educating the less privileged.  If I am not mistaken, today, Nov. 27, 2009, he will be awarded the title "Order of Lakandula" at Malacanang. (I think Manny Pacquiao has also received such a title.) Sorry, I can't go on deeper on the details of this kind of recognition because I don't know much about it.

His project, "PushCart Education," is a rare project and truly a laudable motive in helping others, since nobody can disregard the importance of education in molding law-abiding and prosperous citizens.

Material success is not only in terms of finding a way to make money, but it also deals the essential know-how of managing it correctly to reach the target - and that means in a broad sense KNOWLEDGE. To attain happiness, the ultimate goal of all, still depends on the same thing -- the acquirement of the right knowledge.

By the way, how can one act differently when, in fact, he doesn't know that other options are possible? Ignorance, of course, is the reason behind mediocrity and poverty. Providing relevant information and knowledge to these kinds of people is the only way to get them out from faulty, unwholesome ideas that can only result to problems, either to themselves or to the society at large. No need for me to cite other people's experiences, you can see the havoc ignorance can do to people in my own life.

Note: I looked at few of the headlines of today's local news paper, it turns out that the attention has been drawn to the Maguindanao massacre that the event mentioned above that is going to happen today seemed to have been eclipsed in comparison.