One-on-one with Public Works Secretary Manuel Bonoan



From ‘Build, Build, Build’ to ‘Build Better More’.

The Marcos administration vows to expand the infrastructure program of the Duterte administration.

How will the government plans to achieve this?

Our Ruth Cabal sits down with Public Works Secretary Manuel Bonoan in this CNN Philippines special presentation.

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7 thoughts on “One-on-one with Public Works Secretary Manuel Bonoan”

  1. Only student-protests can rejuvenate what professors know not.

    Check history up to mid of previous century, when Core Cultural

    Curriculum Courses (in Europe!) were made as “scientific” as

    possible & science propped up its foundations by turning to philosophy.

    This attitude was in part motivated by the desire to appropriate the

    sciences with the great past ‘prestige’ of philosophers, and for the

    philosopher the new ‘status’ of science.

    Hence, European professors of physics vied with one another in

    presenting science based on high physico-philosophical grounds,

    and philosophy as a ‘science among sciences’, or as ‘sum of the

    other sciences’.

    A ‘PhD’ was then a bona fide Philosophy Doctor, a person of

    core knowledge and eloquence outside his specialism.

    Western education has since withdrawn from the game

    Empty specialism has since gained the highest prestige, especially

    in the U.S.; no longer do professors need borrow it from philosophy

    nor need to teach any interdisciplinary Core Curriculum Course. [CCC].

    Indeed, contemporary teachers and professors vie with one

    another in presenting fragmented, technical lectures devoid of any

    interconnected content, for they can no longer hope to achieve

    popularity by injecting core fundamental knowledge into what has

    gradually become an ever narrower, disciplinary professionalism…..

    .

    This turn of events has resulted in overvaluation of technical

    professionalism, empty academicism, absolutation of ever-narrower

    disciplines, and the common inclination to reject bona fide core

    knowledge from the class. A pity. For these trends only push the young

    into cynicism, nihilism and feelings of emptiness in education and in

    society at large.

    Classical skepticism is usually the negation of a core,

    interconnected, physico-philosophical system. Not so with Einstein's

    methodology and skepticism.

    To start with, Einstein advocated the total removal of borders

    between disciplines, especially between physics and philosophy.

    While such attitudes add fuel to the current academic crisis,

    especially in the U.S., the Einsteinian methodology leads to unification

    of some of the most promising kernels of human knowledge, and, thus,

    to the potential to rejuvenate academic life by an old-new philosophy.

    Einstein’s failed attempts to unify [deterministic] gravity physics

    with [non-deterministic] quantum physics, have played a major role not

    only in the writing of these volumes, but have drove the need to

    rejuvenate a CCC approach in class, at least in physics and the ‘exact

    sciences’.

    In fact, a new physico-philosophical outlook is a matter entailing

    far more ambiguity than the technicalities of the derivation and

    application of a new theory, as explained in CCCC Volume I. But such

    justifications are bound up with philosophical considerations, and the

    latter, according to many, are not anymore bona fide topics for the ‘exact

    sciences’.

    Currently, our students are almost specifically trained by their

    teachers and professors not to ask fundamental questions in class, as a

    result of which inconsistent, or outright incorrect premises, are given a

    better chance of pe rpetuating themselves.

    IN SHORT, EINSTEIN WAS AGAINST ANY AUTHORITY, NOT JUST THE GERMAN

    STYLE, NOT ONLY AGAINST THAT OF ELECTED POLITICIANS, OF NOMINATED

    PROFESSORS AND OF ANY JUDGE, SELF APPOINTED REPORTER OF SCIENCE,

    MEDICAL CZAR, PEOPLE WHO SPEAK IN THE NAME OF GOD, WHILE HE

    HIMSELF WAS HIGHLY RELIGIOUS, ADMIRING THE BIBLE-CHAPTER-ONE

    COSMOLOGICAL-CREATOR — CC. ////

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  2. tweet: The country must build these infrastructure. We do not have them right now: Department of Immigration & Naturalization; Department of Health and Research Center; Department of Social Security and Administration; Department of Public Services and Social Welfare; Department of Agriculture; The Philippines Chamber of Commerce; Department of Tourism, and one more public school up in Luzon, which just recently been changed into: San Sebastian City (old olongapo, bad luck). This new Upgraded city, needs San Sebastian University — it does not have a higher learning academic institution for its population. Another one that must be built for the general public is a new University De Manila (UDM) Campus. But there are other infrastructure the country is without and must be built rather soon. But, let's go ahead and start with those above. God bless. aug2022.

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  3. With marcos as our president and bonoan our dpwh secretary much will be achieved. This duo will continue the golden age of philippine infrastructure. Just don't forget mindanao and visayas.

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