Ten-year-old Filipinos, 91% of them, cannot read and write well, cannot grasp instructions. They have barely stepped into Philippine society and they are already on the way to becoming a lost generation. There are wonderful statistics of Philippines demographics that will place our population in the next several decades as among the youngest in the world. Indeed, if life were about humans as the prized assets of earthly existence, this trajectory towards youthfulness is wonderful. But life today and what it is building up to be in the near future is dangerous for a budding generation unless it is rich and unless it is smart.

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