V-Integration
of Education for Sustainable Development to Literature
The Integration of education for sustainable
development to literature through rendering some services to the cause of
letters in this country by helping stimulate interest in local writing in
English this will be done through inspiring and guiding many students in the
pursuit of the humanities which believes to be true foundation of a complete
man. Today’s generation must give emphasis in education especially in science
and technology at the expense of a liberal arts education, when college students
are often merely instructed rather than educated.
The main concern in
Philippine Literature is the English part of it. We must treat Philippine
literature as it is: with humility, but also with respect. We must not call it
great, for it is not; we must not treat it patronizingly, for it deserves respectful
treatment. We also need to have a literary critic that is naturally careful to
offend no one, which tantamount to saying that criticisms lack courage and
intellectual honesty. The truth that is it prefers to encourage more than
discourage, to build rather than destroy, rather than mislead.
A true Filipino
intellectual with more practical sense than just rabid nationalism and we
believe that the English language, judging from the way better-educated
Filipino have handled it. Is here to stay despite the way it is being
slaughtered by those who lack competence on it. Though colonial in origin like
Spanish, English is a language that has become such a part of the national
culture that it seems permissible to suppose that its use need not signify subservience
or a colonial mentality and that perhaps a worthy literature in that language
might evolve in the Philippine soil if it is not already done so. No one can
deny the fact that English has become the language in the Philippine and there
is nothing incongruous is the fact that when Filipino writes, they write for
the most part in English. Filipino is an evitable heritage that any
right-thinking Filipino should not be ashamed of.
In analyzing the growth
of Philippine letters, it says that the most serious drawback to its
development is not economic nor merely linguistic but cultural. The tree cannot
grow unless it is in contact with the elements. Likewise, art is a lifelong
pursuit. There is no shortcut to greatness, not even in literature language cannot
be legislated and imposed upon a people. The solution is to see our culture not
as well to be emptied or refilled but as a seed to be nurtured, to be allowed
to grow, to flower, to bear fruit and for the fruit to ripen on the tree.
Philippine literature
must not be isolated or cut off written and from without if it is to
flourished. It must deep roots; it must draw vitality from the soil erosion
elegance from civilized art and univers
