A new orientation
Media
Part of Panorama
- Title
- A new orientation
- Language
- English
- Source
- Volume XIX (6) June 1967
- Year
- 1967
- Subject
- Philippines
- World War, 1939-1945
- Rights
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- Fulltext
- A NEW ORIENTATION It is still the early morning hours of the day of the poli tical emancipation of the Filipinos. It is, of course, an emancipation i m m e diately following a nightmarish in terlude of destruction, blood shed, and moral chaos, after over forty years of gradual and peaceful preparation. Those were not forty years of aimless wandering in the wilderness. They covered de cades of dream, struggle, and restlessness towards a definite goal. They were decades of hectic preparation in educa tion, in social improvement, in political self-management, and to some extent in econo mic self-sufficiency. The na tional structure was being erected step by step accord ing to a. general plan. But all of a sudden the catastrophic event of the World War en gulfed the country and demo lished much of the material assets previously accumulated and shook the moral reserves the Filipino had patiently developed. Over twenty years have passed since that fateful oc currence; they have been years of needed reconstruc tion and rebuilding. It has been a period of changing conditions, changing de mands, and changing atti tudes and relationships in this country and in all parts of the world. In this chang ed atmosphere, the need is urgent and imperative to fol low a new plan for the na tional structure, one adapted for an edifice suitable to meet the tensions and stresses of a different world. To re construct according to the old model is not enough. To build a new structure fit for the new conditions is inesca pable. The young Filipinos whom we find in our colleges and universities today should have a new orientation and should adjust themselves to the new environment. Crea tivity, daring, and integrity are urgently needed for a re constructed society. — V.G.S. 36 Panorama
- pages
- 36