Again, textbooks!

It's not world-class basic ed textbooks alone that we need so badly after all. This idea crossed my mind after talking to Teacher Gayon, professor of science education and chemistry, at the Radyo Edukado. Since many Filipino teachers of science (bio, chem, and physics) have no formal training and education in these areas, it's necessary then to publish a type of science textbooks whose contents untrained science teachers could VERY easily follow and, hence, teach effectively despite their lack of training and sufficient knowledge in the field. But then again, where are these textbooks? 

I'm sure I'm not the only one who's tired of hearing statistics about the unfortunate state of Philippine education. We already heard lots of sob stories from the TV reporters.

What most of our schoolteachers urgently need are good textbooks.