Beyond Survival Into Sustainability Of Farmers’ Rewards – Clustering In Agriculture 2020

Lockdown or not, what is the best strategy for agriculture? For Bangladesh, Shykh Seraj states categorically that “Farming Must Go On As Survival Strategy[1]” (29 May 2020, The Daily Star). Being an agriculturist, to me that is a bad policy – you must look for inspiration out of the desperation. I am Oscar Wilde’s optimist; I am thinking Beyond Survival (image from ISSUU[2]) 

And for my country, the Philippines, I find that encouragement in SEARCA Policy Paper-2 titled “Agricultural Clusters Approach To Enhance Competitiveness Of Smallholder Farms In Southeast Asia” authored by Glenn B Gregorio, Rodolfo V Vicerra, Rico C Ancog, Nikka Marie P Billedo, Rebeka A Paller, Ma Christina G Corales & Imelda L Batangantang (just out, downloadable from SEARCA website).

With SEARCA, I believe that my country should make it a national policy via the Department of Agriculture, DA, under Secretary of Agriculture William Dar/Manong Willie, to adopt the clustering approach in helping bring PH agriculture from Bad to Best!

What is an ideal agricultural cluster? And why is it strategic to define, design and do agricultural clustering in the Philippines, as in the rest of Southeast Asia? The policy paper authors say:

An agricultural cluster – organized either through horizontal (or) vertical linkages, is a strategic approach to operationalize the appropriate channels at a scale necessary for it to have enhanced competitive strength to connect with national and international markets.

In the cluster, we have market connections and value-adding networks that aid the product flow and development. We have an interlocking of 3 linkages. The horizontallinkage is farmer-to-farmer interactions. The vertical linkage comprises the relationships among input suppliers, farmers, common service facility, value-adders, final processors, exporter, and importer. The support linkage includes training, investment subsidies others provided to public, private, and NGO assistance service providers.

And what can we expect from aggie clustering? The policy authors say (my listing):

(1) Improved market awareness & linkages

(2) Access to inputs

(3) Increased production

(4) Minimized risks through farm management

(5) Higher product quality, with improved value chain, value addition

(6) Improved incomes

(7) Improved competitiveness.

The policy paper based those expectations from 3 case studies: in the Philippines on vegetables, Malaysia rice, and Vietnam root crops.

With ACIAR funding, MF Rola-Rubzen, R Murray Prior, P Batt, S Concepcion, RF Lamban, J Axalan, M Montiflor, F Israel, D Apara & R Bacus found in their study on “Vegetable Production In Mindanao, Philippines” that clustering had a positive effect on the volume of production, and increased output value and value of production of 6 commodities (not enumerated). “The study concluded that clustering was indeed effective in elevating the farmers’ household income.”

I have only one comment:

I would have loved it if MF Rola-Rubzen & her ACIAR-funded researchers went on to study that clustering in Mindanao for at least 5 years and recorded that in fact the farmers not only increased their overall incomes but raised the quality of their family lives and, should I say it?

They lived happily ever after!@517

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[1]https://www.thedailystar.net/country/news/farming-must-go-survival-strategy-1906141

[2]https://issuu.com/cecanure43537/docs/184935362x-beyond_survival_by_

Calling For Open Science Revolution!

There has never been a Science Revolution in Language – well, I’m calling for one now!

Yes, Frontiers – at https://www.frontiersin.org– shares on Facebook today, Friday, 29 May 2020, that it is “150,000 steps closer to open science” in publishing its 150,000^th open-access article, a mountain of achievement.

No, Frontiers, you are not “150,000 steps closer to open science.” This is an Editor In Chief speaking from 45 years experience.

In fact, Frontiers, you are 150,000 steps farther from Open Science!

Frontiers, your Open Science is Elitist, and you do not realize why?

To you, Frontiers, “Open Science” is “open access” but you limit access to the technical materials in your publications, accessible only to technical people – no, your “Open Science” is not understandable even by a college student, much less a high schooler. If you declare “Open Science,” science, or knowledge, must be available to all in the form and language that people can appreciate.(jargon image From The Grapevine[1])

Yes, your science must be

Science with a human face!

That is notyour science, Frontiers. That phrase appeared 19 years ago in the book ICRISAT Annual Report 2000 “Science With A Human Face.” ICRISAT is the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics, based in India; its Director General, from 2000 to 2014, is now Secretary of Agriculture William Dar of the Philippines. I personally know that because I was ICRISAT’s international consulting writer from 2007 to 2014, working from home – minding my popular science.

Frontiers, you have to make the contents of your 150,000 technical articles available to the public – to unmake your elitist “Open Science.”

Not only you, Frontiers. Worldwide, all institutions publishing technical journals should publish popularized versions of their papers – otherwise the people (taxpayers) are paying for science that they cannot understand, much less use.

This is a call for An Open Science Revolution!

Break down all border walls of Closed Science!

This is The Frontier that even giant Frontiers has not been thinking of.

For instance, in the paper “Coronavirus Disease (Covid-19): Pathophysiology, Epidemiology, Clinical Management And Public Health Response[2]” authored by Giuseppe Di Lorenzo and Rossella Di Trolio, it says:

Another explanation for the higher lethality is the presence of other pathologies and the comorbidities of the elderly population.

That is ClosedScience! This is a people science writer speaking, one who has been blogging earnestly since 2007, publishing 5,000+ essays of at least 1,000 words each. In my old blog iCRiSAT Watch, I published 305 long essays all about the science and leadership of William Dar. If you ask me, he is the epitome of “Science with a human face” – that which Frontiers should be targeting if it truly is for Open Science.

So, Frontiers has so far 79 of what it calls “specialist journals” being published. “Specialist journals” means it is only the specialists in the science/s who access, assess, appreciate and apply the contents of those journals.

Pity those who do not understand technical language even while an Open Science policy has been declared all over the Internet!@

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[1]https://www.fromthegrapevine.com/innovation/cant-understand-science-studies-might-be-about-change

[2]https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmed.2020.00140/full?utm_campaign=ba-cov-sci-fmed-italy-risk-factors&utm_medium=cvlp&utm_source=fweb?utm_source=fweb&utm_medium=fmain&utm_campaign=ba-cov-sci-hpfea-covid-disease-italy

Given The Lockdown, How Media Can Be Revolutionary Many Times Over!

Right now, no country in the world is developed or developing or underdeveloped – they are all staggering under the dictatorship of a lockdown wanted by doctors.

Since when did development of a country depend on medical doctors? This world is going crazy!

I am looking at mass media as Social Savior of Sanity.

The 2020 Media Revolution I’m thinking of is this: Media as prompter, rabble rouser, knowledge giver, teacher of learning and not teacher of Questions and Answers.

I’m talking about Mediaand Science.

Science is the modern handmaiden for families, villages, towns & cities, provinces, regions, countries. That is to say, the more science we move from Appreciation to Application, the more the Gross Domestic Prosperity, GDP², should be! For too long, Prosperity has been denied from the lowest rungs of society.

PH: Practical applications of the Digital Revolution with these target institutions:

Department of Agriculture, DA;
Department of Education, DepEd;
Department of Information & Communication Technology, DICT;
Department of Science & Technology, DoST;
State Colleges & Universities, SCUs:
University of the Philippines System, UP System.

For the DA, digital delivery of educational materials with the cellphone as the last mile.

For DepEd, learning in virtual classrooms. To maximize digital power, transform teaching lessons into learning lessons. How? Read my lips (my essay, “PH Du30, Duque, Lagmay – Please Learn From Natalie Portman!” 27 May 2020, Werkaholic).

For the DICT, massive support of virtual careers or work-from-home professionals. The Filipinos are the #1 work-from-homers in the world!

For DoST, journals that come out more than twice a year. In 2003, at 66 years old, I was a one-man band Editor In Chief and desktop publisher of the Philippine Journal of Crop Science, PJCS; in 3 years, I made PJCS up-to-date and in the next year listed in the coveted international elite list called ISI. Digital was my handmaiden.

For the PAJ, blogging for inclusive countryside development.

And yes, I’m 79 now and I just came out with a book of 312 pages titled Greenfields Of Asia, a collection of 100 of my essays blogged from January 2020 to March 2020. Beat that!

For the SCUs, digitizing learning materials for farmers and fishers in regions they are strategically located.

For the UP System, digital courses that contribute graduates to any of the above undertakings.

So, ladies and gentlemen:

All for GDP²!

There’s more:

Antonio Contreras says[1] (28 May 2020, “When Blessings Of Democracy Turn Into A Curse,” Manila Times) that “the political system must be populated by a politically literate and responsible citizenry, mature political institutions and political leaders who know the limits of their powers.”

Via media, we will educate the citizenry. Via media, we guard political institutions from being immature. Via media, we teach political leaders some lessons.

The overall lesson is this:

If we cannot find freedom in the real world, we can always find it in the virtual world!

Note that in the image of Revolution above, you can spell

evoL
as
Love.

I am calling for a Revolution of Love!@517

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[1]https://www.manilatimes.net/2020/05/28/opinion/columnists/topanalysis/when-blessings-of-democracy-turn-into-a-curse/727733/?fbclid=IwAR0T69CtoolnWmOmjdnsz0pgvIEVwE4T6nUhd6P_3P9hKIho5vs-seJLnAg

An Open Letter To Members Of The Philippine Agricultural Journalists, PAJ

On 03 December 2019, Secretary of Agriculture William Dar/Manong Willie was your guest speaker at the launching of your Binhi Awards 2019co-sponsored by San Miguel Corporation, SMC. Binhi Awards has become an important yearly event in Philippine journalism. 

Binhi Awards was meant to encourage and develop PH aggie journalism. I personally feel that a private company with interests in agriculture sponsoring Binhi Awards should not be something to be ashamed of by either PAJ or SMC. In fact, I want to encourage more private sponsors and much higher prizes because of the high & intricate challenges of the current crisis in Philippine agriculture lockdown or not.

We need more aware, creative, dedicated aggie journalists today to help propagate Manong Willie’s “New Thinking For Agriculture”  with its thought components he calls “The 8 Paradigms” – and these are:

(1) Modernization.
(2) Industrialization.
(3) Promotion of exports.
(4) Consolidation of small- and medium-sized farms
(5) Infrastructure development.
(6) Higher budget & investment.
(7) Legislative support.
(8) Roadmap development.

Very challenging those!

I know that the challenge to develop Philippine agriculture is much greater today than 10 years ago, even than 1 year ago; I want to contribute more than my writing; I want to see:

PH farmers emancipated from poverty!

With this letter, I am broaching the idea of personally mentoring PAJ members in creative aggie journalism – the kind I have yet to witness among PAJ members, who continue to write what I call Single Success Stories, SSS, in their unofficial SSS Journalism. What the new PH agriculture needs now are what I call Group-Success Inspiring Stories, or GSIS Journalism.

With sponsorship by the DA, I will be your Author’s Editor online for GSIS Journalism where all activities are digital and without personal, face-to-face contacts. (To start, send me a draft: frankahilario@gmail.com.)

As a mentor for journalists, what are my pertinent credentials?

One: I was the one who came up with the winning idea of Binhi Awards.

Two: I won the 2011 award Outstanding Alumnus for Creative Writing, the only one honored so far in UP System history.

Three: I have published 5,000-plus articles of a minimum 1,000 words each in my many blogs, starting in 2007 when I became an international consulting writer for the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics, ICRISAT, when Manong Willie was Director General. (My blog? iCRiSAT Watch.)

For creative journalism, I will also assist each one of you to create his/her own personal blog. The beauty of a blog is that you can always publish what you have written and not wait for the editorial approval of the print or online newspaper or media you are affiliated with.

All free to PAJ – hopefully, Manong Willie will finance this intellectual effort. Yes, everything will be digital – workshop, exchanges of notes, etcetera. I will stop mentoring you only when I feel you are now good to go!

PAJ, come on and be the best you can be!@517

PH Du30, Duque, Lagmay – Please Learn From Natalie Portman!

You gentlemen, non-teachers all:

You do NOT need classrooms for learning!

In its own webpage, Rappler asks: “What are your thoughts on opening classes in August?”

Contrariwise, Mahar Lagmay, Executive Director of the UP Resilience Institute, advises: Cancel classes until December[1]!

Sorry, but Du30, Duque, Rappler, and Lagmay
are all missing the point – because it’s inside.
It’s inside their heads! And at the tip of their fingers!

Right now, under lockdown, the best way to communicate is digital. So? So, the best way to continue the interrupted education of anyone is? Digital!

First, we have to change the way we teach. I Civil Service Professional teacher will tell you classroom teaching in the Philippines, including US, where we got our education, is essentially the Question & Answer, Q&A, Method. Q&A? Mechanical, not Intellectual. Memorizing, not Thinking.

We have to teach the teachers first!

These digital times are the best way to innovate in teaching, from home to college.

So now, let us learn from a non-teacher, American actress Natalie Portman:

I don’t love studying.
I hate studying.
I like learning.
Learning is beautiful.

She states a fact she has observed not as teacher but as learner. Now, if you are a good teacher, you would have learned by now from what Ms Natalie has said that:

The best way to teach is to teach learning.
The best way to teach is to teach thinking.

That is, we should teach the children how to learn, not how to memorize what we throw at them. Throw away Q&A! Instead, let us cultivate creative thinking as well as critical thinking! (think image from IBM[2])

Winston Churchill says, “Personally, I am always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.”

What Ms Natalie and Sir Winston are saying is that each learner should be taught how to discover for oneself the lesson hidden in a page, a photograph, a situation, or a story.

Now then, the best way I know to teach is not taught in any school of education in the Philippines. The philosophy is the theory of Multiple Intelligences, MI, that Harvard professor Howard Gardner has taught the world. He says each of us has 9 intelligences or smarts (this list from Odioma[3]):

(1)  Bodily kinesthetic (body smart)

(2) Existential (life smart)

(3) Interpersonal (people smart)

(4) Intra-personal (self-smart

(5) Linguistic (word smart)

(6) ocal-mathematical (number/reasoning smart

(7) Musical (sound smart)

(8) Naturalist (nature smart)

(9) Spatial (picture smart).

Why do students study? To get ahead in the world after graduation. But they have to get ahead of themselves first!

And how do you use the MI theory to teach any child, adult or senior? First, cultivate curiosity in everyone and observe which one s/he is most interested in. That points to any of those 9 smarts. That’s what you as the teacher help the learner develop, his/her genius. 

Then each of your students will be like Ms Natalie – loving learning!

So, what’s there not to love in learning?
The teacher!@517

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[1]https://cnnphilippines.com/news/2020/4/21/UP-experts-class-suspensions-December-COVID-19.html

[2]https://www.ibm.com/events/think/

[3]https://blog.adioma.com/9-types-of-intelligence-infographic/

White Rice Or Brown Rice? Take Your Pick!

In the above image, the news from Yahoo.com is that “White rice spikes blood sugar levels and 'has almost the same effect as eating pure table sugar,' according to Harvard Medical School[1].”

That’s terrible news to me, a Filipino who has been eating white rice in all my 79 years!

Still, Ms Shaena quotes Elizabeth Ryan, researcher at the Colorado State University, as saying, “Eating whole grains is always going to be important." She means brown rice. For one, she says her research shows that brown rice can protect against colorectal cancer.

Ms Elizabeth explains that white rice is less nutritious because brown rice has the most nutrient-dense parts of rice: the bran and germ. I like it that she says with brown rice, you get calcium (for teeth and bone health), unsaturated fat (for cardiovascular health), phosphorus (with calcium, you have stronger bones and teeth), vitamins B1 (thiamine) and B3 (niacin), good for your nervous system; protein (for building muscles), and magnesium (for proper neurological function). All those from brown rice!

And then Ms Shaena goes on to say that in a study conducted in India, “intermittently flooded rice farms can emit 45 times more nitrous oxide (than) the maximum from continuously flooded farms that predominantly emit methane.” Now, now, Ms Shaena, you’re telling me intermittently flooding the rice field to defeat the weeds is better than continuously flooding the same!

Ah, but altogether flooding the field to defeat the weeds is not an intelligent technology! The Indian farmers do the same thing as the Filipino: Who copied from whom?

What if I told you that you can defeat the weeds without flooding the rice field by simply practicing trash mulching? That is to say, don’t plow; instead, use the rotavator to cut the weeds and soil simultaneously in a shallow operation so that this cuts up and mixes the weeds and soil particles and lay out a mulch all over the field. That simple operation does 3 things:

(1) You defeat the weeds. 
(2) You turn the weeds into organic mulch all over your rice field
(3) You do not need any irrigation at all because the organic mulch is wet enough for your rice to grow! 

(I can show in an actual techno demo if someone challenges me.)

When I first heard about brown rice at UP Los Baños sometime 2005, the scientist was explaining it as if it were a variety different from where you get your white rice, and so it was more expensive than white rice. He was selling brown rice, and he was not about to explain that you get your brown rice from the same variety you get your white rice! I did not know enough to ask.

Since then, we have cooked brown rice at home several times. You have to soak the grains for 30 minutes before cooking, for some reason I have forgotten.

The bran in brown rice is rich in phytochemicals that have antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties. Good for your health! Except for the taste.@517

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[1]https://ph.news.yahoo.com/white-rice-spikes-blood-sugar-155511148.html

Ferdinand “FM” Marcos – He Was Good And Bad; When He Was Good, He Was The Best!

This is a full-blooded Ilocano writer speaking, with Hilario roots from Rosario, La Union: 

Bad, FM was Bad;
Good, FM was The Best!
(image of Imee & her father FM from Wikipedia[1])

Now the business at hand. According to authors Miguel Paolo P Reyes, Joel F Ariate Jr & Larah Vinda Del Mundo of the article “‘Success’ Of Masagana 99 All In Imee’s Head – UP Researchers[2]” (24 May 2020, Vera Files), the authors being themselves the UP researchers:

Masagana 99 did not succeed. I ask, in what:

(1) Producing PH rice for export? 

(2) Growing 99 cavans per hectare?

(3) Providing a proper technology package?

(4) Fashioning out a rice credit program?

(5) Managing the disbursement of funds?

The UP researchers themselves say in their report:

A thorough look at the much-hyped Masagana 99 showed that for a brief time after it was launched, the Philippines did become a rice-exporting country – or barely that. But data and studies show that this point of pride for the Marcoses and their supporters was not solely attributable to the Masagana 99 credit program.

“Barely that” – what I know is that we exported some rice. That the export was “not solely attributable to the Masagana 99 credit program” is to acknowledge the export anyway!

This “success” came at a significant cost, not only to the government, but also to the farmers… Masagana 99 also had an adverse impact on the environment brought about by its dependence on chemical fertilizers and pesticides.

“Significant cost” – is government to count the cost of the people’s benefits from a program? What is the “cost” to the farmers they are not saying. The adverse effects on the environment from chemical agriculture continue to this day, so what’s the difference, lady and gentlemen?

At the core of Masagana 99 was a package of technology offered to farmers in the form of high-yielding variety (HYV) seeds, herbicides, low-cost fertilizer, and other modern agricultural inputs.

As far as I know, the program Masagana 99 was organized by scientists of the UP College of Agriculture, UPCA, and I’m sure they knew what they were doing.

About the supervised credit scheme, I know firsthand because I was in and out of UPCA from 1959 to beyond 1973, when Masagana 99 was launched. I was also a member of the Los Baños Jaycees and, of course, a favorite topic of conversation was Masagana 99 – farmers, businessmen and banks themselves were taking advantage of the program!

That is to say:

It was those who abused the Masagana 99 program that made it fail! So why blame FM for the people’s greed?

Enough of the bad!
Now the good.

Just one: Who was the PH President who laid out much of the infrastructure of Philippine Science today? FM. Thus: Without FM creating the Forest Research Institute, FORI, where could I have launched myself into a writing career where I became the best of me!?

Thank you FM for FORI – and for being The Best!@517

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[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcos_family

[2]https://verafiles.org/articles/success-masagana-99-all-imees-head-researchers

How Going Organic Farming Is Healthy For The Farmer, Buyers And Community

The current lockdown of the world’s governments as common response to the perceived threat of the coronavirus or Covid-19, has dramatized the urgent need for good food, which can come only from good farm produce, and which in turn can come only from good agricultural practice – which includes organic farming.

The Department of Agriculture, DA, Region 4A, Calabarzon, covers Cavite, Laguna, Batangas, Rizal and Quezon, and has its regional office at the RMIC Bldg in the BPI Compound along Visayas Avenue in Quezon City. From the Region 4A image, below is the statement from Alicia Valdoria, who is an organic farmer in Tayabas City in Quezon Province:

Walang sayang sa organic. ‘Yong nakukuha namin sa kapaligiran ay ibinabalik din namin sa kalikasan… Kung hindi natin papalaganapin ang pag-o-organic, balewala rin ang five percent na nag-o-organic. Dapat naintihand talaga ng mga tao ito.

Here is my free translation of Ms Alicia’s sharing:

Nothing is wasted in organic farming. Those we can gather from the surroundings are what we return to Mother Nature… If we do not spread the practice of organic farming, we 5% who are into organic are nothing. People should understand this.

In the image above, Ms Alicia is labeled Organic Agriculture Farmer. Implying that she follows the guidelines provided by the DA.

The text below the image is more than 300 words and in Tagalog; I will now translate some lines:

Yumi’s Farm, owned by Mrs Alicia Valdoria and her husband, supplies organic vegetables, foremost of which is lettuce (iceberg) at the markets of Tayabas and other consumers. The demand is great of their harvest. They can sell 50 kg everyday at P200/kilo. The farm is now focusing on the system of continuous and voluminous production of lettuce to cater to the demands of eateries and hotels nearby.

The triumph of Yumi’s Farm, more of supplying organic foods, has paved the way for the formation of the Ilayang Bukal Organic Farmers' Association (IBOFA), which is helping 49 families to earn and serve healthy foods in their own households via organic methods. With the leadership of Mrs Valdoria, the IBOFA farmers are awakening the consciousness of youth about organic agriculture. They are also sponsoring some youths up to and including studying in college.

Mrs Valdoria and her group acknowledge the program and support of the DA in terms of farm equipment, farm inputs, and training. She is only one of the many farmers in Calabarzon who continue to exhibit industry and inspire people in their communities. Thereby, they help keep agriculture alive as one of the most important sectors of society.

May is the month dedicated to our farmers and fishers, according to Presidential Proclamation 33. Let us show our high respect and acknowledgment of their worth by buying from them, not wasting food, and giving thanks!

Let us join our farmers and fishers journeying towards bounteous harvests and bountiful income!

So, via organic farming, Mrs Valdoria is cultivating good food, good business, and good neighbors. I admire you, Mrs Valdoria. You are exemplary!@517

PH SCUs, Let Us Learn From Finland Learning How To Teach Genius!

I was reading the text to the link to the Facebook sharing of Bona Laureto above, and I was first thinking of me, then school children, then high schoolers, then State Colleges & Universities, SCUs, then teachers – and then the farmers. 

We are all learners at one time or another!
This is a teacher speaking, PH Professional Level.

“Yeap! Finland Will Become The First Country In The World To Get Rid Of All School Subjects” was written by  Elizabeth Williams (Curious Mind Magazine). Curiously, it is undated; not even the URL gives a clue on the year – I found it elsewhere, in another undated learning article, in Twig Education, where it says:

Phenomena-based learning… has been in the spotlight recently. First popularized due to Finland’s decision to revolutionize their curriculum in 2016, this buzzword is back on everyone’s lips again.

So, it has been at least 4 years since Finland decided to revolutionize education and this Teacher Professional who is also a wide reader who is also a science writer never heard of it!? It tells me 2 things:

(1) Finnish writers do not give much thought to education, even as their country is changing the world of teaching!

(2) Writers in English don’t give much damn to changing the way they think either!

Writers just want to teach?

This brings me to my topic:

Opening doors to learning for everyone.

Ms Elizabeth’s article on Finland revolutionizing education by erasing all subjects I see as writing in all manners of investigation. And yes, I know that everyone of us has genius inside us, except that years before our teachers stopped us from discovering it by drowning it with subjects and logical quizzes and regurgitating-memory-intensive long exams.

I wish PH Secretary of Education Leonor Briones would apply my new philosophy of education to any one of the schools under the Department of Education, DepEd; after DepEd, I look at the SCUs picking up my holistic idea of education. Which is?

ME_MI Education 2020

The first 2 words meaning:
ME – multiple excitements
MI – multiple intelligences.

Now MI comes directly from Harvard Professor Howard Gardner’s Theory of Multiple Intelligences, where you or I have hidden within us that each of us has yet to discover, any of the following 9 intelligences[1]: 

(1) Bodily-kinesthetic;
(2) Existential;
(3) Interpersonal;
(4) Intrapersonal;
(5) Linguistic-verbal;
(6) Logical-mathematical;
(7) Musical;
(8) Naturalistic;
(9) Visual-spatial.

Never mind their individual definitions now; we can discover later. Right now, let’s practice ME_MI Education 2020:

From out of the blue, show the superimposed image above (which I took 21 November 2010), in the classroom or your home (for homeschoolers), and ask the same question: “What do you see?” Each individual’s answer will tell you where that person’s interest is, which would more or less reflect one’s genius. Genius is where you begin the educational process!

So, now it’s up for the schools to teach the students how – and all those homeschoolers to change their tactics teaching their boys or girls at home!

Got it, genius?@517

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[1]https://iwerkaholic.blogspot.com/2020/03/first-teachers-have-to-learn-joei.html