[OPINION] Add more education into the 4Ps

Education has always been thought of as one of the answers to poverty. An educated citizenry makes a progressive nation. Governments pour in money to invest in educating its people. Thus, in every poverty alleviation program in the world, there is an educational component.

These are good signs that the CCT program is a success – but on the assumption that when we are able to keep enrolment rates high with good school attendance, learning takes place. This disregards other circumstances that happen inside the school, or now, in wherever the child is learning. Also taken out of the picture is the environment that the child will go home to after school, the child’s habitus.

Government exists to extend help and support to the most needy in society. The 4Ps as an instrument for that help and support is laudable, but take note that the help must be sustainable, something that will power-up and launch people, and not make them dependent all the time on these programs.School attendance is a part of it, but it should not stop there. The student may be present physically, but could be somewhere else mentally. Thus, attendance is useless and irrelevant.

The question really is: how can the 4Ps be used to also assure that the education being given is of good quality and will help break chronic poverty among the beneficiaries, so they can truly help in nation-building in the future, so development can truly happen? In other words, how can education play a more transformative role in the 4Ps so that the money, effort, and time will truly be called educational...

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