Dr. Bernardo Villegas

Parents first in basic education Part 3

As a professional educator teaching then at the Center for Research and Communication, I was asked in 1976 by a group of parents to help them implement the dictum of St. Josemaria Escriva, Founder of Opus Dei (who had passed away just a year before in Rome), “Parents first, teachers, second and student last.”

Parents first in Basic Education Part 1

As an award-winning K-12 educator and international teacher trainer for education for sustainable development, Ilan Enverga commented in an article that appeared in a leading Philippine daily that there is only one Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) that has the unique power that can enable any society to achieve all 17 SDGs identified by 193 United Nations member states.

Strategic directions for Philippine agriculture Part 2

The coconut sector should be the vanguard in the ambitious plan of the present Administration to improve the production and productivity of the entire agriculture sector.

A list of senatorial candidates Part 2

The second role model of a Senatoriable is Atty Gilberto (Gibo) C. Teodoro, currently the Secretary of the Department of National Defense (DND). He serves as the principal assistant and adviser to the President on defense matters, overseeing various DND offices and bureaus. 

A list of Senatorial candidates Part 1

Without my affirmative vote in the Philippine Constitutional Commission of 1986 that drafted the Philippine Constitution of 1987, we would probably have no Senators in the Philippine Congress today.