MALOLOS CITY—If elected in the next year’s polls, University of the Philippines professor Randy David will continue to teach, this time in Congress.
He said even congressmen do not understand the functions and nature of a legislator’s job.
“Marami ang hindi nakakaunawa na dapat nilag katawanin, ang damdamin ng kanilang constituent sa mas malawak na arena ng diskurso,” David said in an interview on Saturday.
A sociologist, David vowed to run against President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo if she decides to run as congressional representative of the second district of Pampanga.
Arroyo’s allies in Pampanga have long insinuated the possibilities that she will run for a congressional seat in the next year’s polls as evidence by her series of visits in the province.
Those visits were highlighted by distribution of PhilHealth cards and other give-a-ways which David described as part of patronage politics that he vowed to opposed.
With regards to his legislative agenda, David said he will push for reforms in the country’s educational system wherein he stressed the importance of teaching students using language learned at home.
“Dapat ay kung anong lengwahe ang gamit sa bahay ng mga bata ang gamiting medium of instruction pagtuntong ng grade one, dahil kung sisimulan agad na English ang language of instruction nagiging double burden iyon sa bata,” he said.
David said that after completing grade one, young students can learn the Filipino language in grade two and the English language in grade three.
“Simpleng usapin lamang iyan pero malawak ang implikasyon,” he said.
He also said distribution of PhilHealth cards should be nationalized and be made available to all.
“Puwedeng ipamigay sa lahat iyan at hindi lang dito sa Pampanga. Our government should be a government of everybody, at hindi lang dito sa lalawigan ng Pampanga,” he said.
David also warned on the alleged “dark plans of Arroyo to perpetuate themselves in power long after the 2010 elections.”
He said that Constitutional Assembly is only one of the options of the current administration.
The others include declaration of state of emergency and Martial law.
“Posibleng maglandas ang failure of elections as state of emergency o kaya ay sa Martial Law. Dapat maghanda tayo dahil kawawa ang bayan at ang mga kabataan,” he said. He also stressed that the late strongman Ferdinand Marcos had done the same.
He added: “It’s a conspiracy to keep the obsolete political system.”
He said even congressmen do not understand the functions and nature of a legislator’s job.
“Marami ang hindi nakakaunawa na dapat nilag katawanin, ang damdamin ng kanilang constituent sa mas malawak na arena ng diskurso,” David said in an interview on Saturday.
A sociologist, David vowed to run against President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo if she decides to run as congressional representative of the second district of Pampanga.
Arroyo’s allies in Pampanga have long insinuated the possibilities that she will run for a congressional seat in the next year’s polls as evidence by her series of visits in the province.
Those visits were highlighted by distribution of PhilHealth cards and other give-a-ways which David described as part of patronage politics that he vowed to opposed.
With regards to his legislative agenda, David said he will push for reforms in the country’s educational system wherein he stressed the importance of teaching students using language learned at home.
“Dapat ay kung anong lengwahe ang gamit sa bahay ng mga bata ang gamiting medium of instruction pagtuntong ng grade one, dahil kung sisimulan agad na English ang language of instruction nagiging double burden iyon sa bata,” he said.
David said that after completing grade one, young students can learn the Filipino language in grade two and the English language in grade three.
“Simpleng usapin lamang iyan pero malawak ang implikasyon,” he said.
He also said distribution of PhilHealth cards should be nationalized and be made available to all.
“Puwedeng ipamigay sa lahat iyan at hindi lang dito sa Pampanga. Our government should be a government of everybody, at hindi lang dito sa lalawigan ng Pampanga,” he said.
David also warned on the alleged “dark plans of Arroyo to perpetuate themselves in power long after the 2010 elections.”
He said that Constitutional Assembly is only one of the options of the current administration.
The others include declaration of state of emergency and Martial law.
“Posibleng maglandas ang failure of elections as state of emergency o kaya ay sa Martial Law. Dapat maghanda tayo dahil kawawa ang bayan at ang mga kabataan,” he said. He also stressed that the late strongman Ferdinand Marcos had done the same.
He added: “It’s a conspiracy to keep the obsolete political system.”
