very, unfortunately, Filipino

"It's easy to make a constitution. The problem is in making it work."
- Fr. Bernas, SJ (Davide lecture)

I'm going to point fingers.

On the micro- (organizational), macro- (school-wide), and national levels, I have encountered colleagues who have decided to solve short term problems (personality clash, personality clash, and power hunger, respectively) by tinkering with the charter, the fundamental law in each level. If these people think that that's the best solution, time is going to prove them wrong. Culture is a function of activities which a group accords significance to. To tinker with the charter with the end in view of having particular persons disqualified to lead for a particular period presupposes that this will be recurring event, a regular happening, a constant, so to speak, in an equation otherwise born of tradition and experience.

The proposals will initiate disregard of seniority, and I am of the view that this kind of democracy is not the best way to assure political stability. It is the best way, however, of giving opportunities to candidates who are blinded and enticed by power and self-esteem rather than humbled by responsibility.