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Algebraic Expression of Philippine Education System

A Student (self supporting or parent dependent)
Pays the tuition fee “X” equivalent to the number of classes “Y”
thus, the level of education (quantity = quality) .
However, the final grade “A”
is the difference of classes attended “Y” and absence “Z”.

Where:
X = Tuition Fee
Y = # of Classes
Z = # of Absences
A = Final Grade

A= X=Y
Y - Z

A Teacher (Instructor or Professor)
receives wage “W” equivalent to the number of Classes “C” attended.
Wage “W” is the difference of the classes “Y” and “D” absence.

Where:

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poem by Victorio Pueblo
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Dr Samuel Johnson's Dictionary Masterpiece

June 1746 deeply dissatisfied
with the dictionaries of the period
London booksellers contracted

Dr Samuel Johnson to write
'A Dictionary of the English Language'
15 April 1755 finally published.

Johnson took nine years to create
an authoritative dictionary of the English language
could finish in three years he claimed?

Preposterous Académie Française employed;
in comparison over forty learned scholars
spending needing forty years to complete;

its dictionary in the French language.
Forty Frenchmen times forty years
is not nine but 1600 years to complete.

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Future Watch Burma To Syria Conflicts Rising

been watching
the future today...

from past lens astray

Burma as expected
has developed
ethnic problems

with sudden absence
of strict communist
dictatorship firm leash

Burmese are no longer
all brother communists
controlled by the state

past civic grievances
rise from postmortem
state of frozen stasis

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A century for mother earth is the equivalent of a beat of wings.

aphorism by Camelia Oprița from book The wall of thoughts (2020), translated by Camelia Oprița
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The appearance of a single great genius is more than equivalent to the birth of a hundred mediocrities.

Cesare Lombroso in The Man of Genius (1891)
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Tradition is the social equivalent of personal habit.

quote by Hassan Fathy
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A good picture is equivalent to a good deed.

quote by Vincent Van Gogh
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Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.

quote by Ayn Rand
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I am the literary equivalent of a Big Mac and Fries.

quote by Stephen King
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There can be no literary equivalent to truth.

quote by Laura Riding
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