Medium of Instructions.

I remember prior to the People's Power of 1986, the education system uses english as a medium of instruction. We also learn a little of Spanish during our high school years. When I went to college, I remember that the school put Chinese on the curriculum to abolish Spanish. I was young then and I don't understand about these changes but according to them since commerce is dominated by Chinese it would be better to learn their language. In fact, long time ago if you speak chinese well you can be hired right away. Took 3 units in Chinese and all I learn is to count 1 to 1000. I took 6 units of Spanish in college plus my basic Spanish in high school and that makes me understand Spanish fairly well and speak a little. Never used Spanish when I went to work LOL. I am a product of a public school in my elementary days and during our times we are already good in the english language. After the People's Power, english was replaced by tagalog as a medium of instruction in public institutions. It is really a big change among later students specially those who finish grade school from public schools. Comparing them generally with students of the past, the present grade schoolers have difficulty in english after finishing grade school. I think using english as a medium of instruction in public institutions will help these students understand their lessons in higher years. We couldn't teach tagalog in physics, in algebra, in geometry and so many more. The students will face a big problem in understanding the subject because of their inability to understand the instructions. Just my two cents.