by Pax Aranas
4 July 2013
Discussed Text: Garcia, "The Promotion of Responsibility and Hope"
With just a few more days until the ultimate rivalry in collegiate basketball, it is not surprising that there would be uproar of news and tweets from both perspectives from the day they start selling tickets to a few days after the match day itself, and I would not veer away from this as well. What makes this on court rivalry so interesting is that it deals with people coming from different backgrounds per se.
Comparing the teaching styles of both schools might prove the point regarding the different backgrounds. Looking at the "Green and white" side of things we see a school structured in a way that it encompasses all their subjects within the 3 year, trimester schedule of it all. In the "Blue and white" side of the coin we then see the Ateneo education structured in such a way that it is made to be finished within 4 years, in which some may feel like a trimester due to required summer classes, but more often than not a semestral curriculum.
What then is the difference? Some people would argue that a La Sallian education brings about what is more necessary for the course. It puts emphasis on teaching the majors early on and while doing so incorporating the ideas and structures of the real world at an earlier stage. While on the fields of Ateneo, we are told that we should learn more in a “holistic” way. We take up multiple classes in the different social sciences classes that for some may be too much. Putting it into the context of Philosophy, we are like the open fan, we cover up a lot of things that deal with the social sciences and other sciences as well, we "spread our wings" into different aspects and perspectives. I am not saying that a LaSallian education would not do so, but it will give a brief overview of these subjects given the number of units given per subject. Both schools have open Fans; the width of the fan though might have some differences.
Let me clear things out, I am not in any way saying that the curriculum of one is better than the other, or that one school is better than the other. Both schools are of good stature in terms of ranking, consistently making the top 3 rank of best schools in the country alongside UP is not a small task. Both schools are good at what they do. Both excel in the fields they take on. Both schools have graduates of grand standings. The question though is, do these graduates take on the concept of being after college? Do La Salle Graduates end up becoming true La Sallians in the future, or do Ateneo Grads end up being Ateneans in the future? The question of being must be asked because it is in this way that we see whether or not a school has impacted a person enough. An Ateneo graduate may move on with his/her life forgetting the values of the school, forgetting what it is to be an Atenean. A LaSalle graduate might also just move on after college bringing about a new perspective and loosing the LaSallian in him/her. It all boils down to this, as we see ourselves in the bleachers and stands of whatever coliseum or gym it might be, wearing the blue or the green, do we see ourselves as the Ateneans or the LaSallians, or do we just wear a colour and stand and cheer for a school we once were in? It’s a question of being, and a question of faith in our traditions of both Ateneo and LaSalle.
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