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03/20/2026

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03/20/2026

Love love love

I force my students to read one novel every term.

No excuses.
Hard copy.
Not optional.
Not negotiable.

And no, I don’t do it because I want to control what they believe.

I do it because I want them to focus and think.

In my class, I never tell my students what to believe and what not to believe. That’s not my job.

I’m not here to hand them conclusions and call it education.

I make them read.

And then I make them sit with their own thoughts.

That’s where things start to change.

Most of them don’t read.
You can tell.

Not because they’re incapable, but because they’ve never been forced to slow down long enough to confront ideas that aren’t theirs.

Reading does that.

It interrupts your usual patterns.
It puts you inside someone else’s world.
It forces you to question things you’ve been comfortable believing.

And at first, they resist.

Some struggle to finish.
Some complain.
Some try to get away with summaries.

But once they actually read, not skim, not shortcut, but really read, something shifts.

I saw it in reflections of some students.
There was more weight in their words.
More awareness.
More questions.

Not perfect answers.

Better questions.

And that’s how you know thinking is happening.

Because thinking doesn’t make you louder.
It makes you more aware of how much you don’t know.

What surprised me the most wasn’t just their growth.

It was mine.

Reading their reflections made me realize that when you give people space to think instead of telling them what to think, they don’t just repeat ideas.

They build their own.

And sometimes, they see things you didn’t.

That’s the value of reading.
It’s not about finishing a book.
It’s about becoming the kind of person who can sit with complexity,
question reality,
and form thoughts that actually mean something.

That’s why it will always be non-negotiable in my class.

Because the truth is simple.

People who want control prefer those who don’t question.

And those who think clearly are the hardest to control.

So no,

I don’t just want students who pass.

I want individuals who can think.

Featuring George Orwell’s 1984 ✨

Ps. If you know, you know 😉

Pps. If you are curious, dito lang naman galing yung concept ng Pinoy Big Brother. Hihi@

03/20/2026

Making some changes in the bookstore.

03/19/2026

March 10th Releases are at Woodland Book Nook