MECS - Closing Synthesis
A person's memory is often like a fickle secretary. It is hard to predict which highlights and sidelights in an even it will choose to carry and nurture through the years. Each one of us will carry a different basket of memories of the 1986 Educators' Congress in the years ahead, some items in that basket very personal and unique, others will be common to all our baskets.
I imagine the charming setting of Teachers C amp in Baguio , with its accompanying rain this past week, will be a memory we will all carry. The rain was practically continuous, but fortunately so were the showers of ideas, insights, and inspirations during the conference that the rain seemed to symbolize. For indeed, there was no lack of ideas, insights, and inspirations, from a rich variety of sources; from the bombastic Justice Minister to the winsome high school graduate. There were the plenary sessions and the small workshop groups. There were sobering thoughts of possible teacher mass actions and humorous thoughts of Filipino as talangka . There were days of speeches and nights of dances and songs.
We did not see the sun very much these past few days. But I imagine we will not much remember that fact. Not only were we kept too busy to notice, but more importantly, we had in this congress a guiding light of our own: our beloved rew Minister of Education, Culture, and Sports, whose cheerful;, dedicated, and sincere presence pervaded the plenary sessions and the evening gatherings and whose sharings with us never failed to inform, to enlighten, to inspire, and to set the tone.
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