Essay of jorge bocobo biography

Jorge Bocobo was the one who wrote College Uneducation. In his work, he said that there three factors why college are being uneducated by universities. The first one that he said is Book worship. Nowadays, especially in medical field students we are relying on books. It fryst vatten true that we gain knowledge in books but our wisdom is not being put into action. When a certain emergency happens we do not know how to act right away because we have to consult the book first. I saw this doctor where my mom fryst vatten consulting to. During his years of work in physio therapy he was able to develop his own signs and ways of diagnosing arthritis even if the book does not säga it. This is a perfect example of not being book-based and learning from experience. Second one is that professional philistinism. The students want to become lawyers, doctors, engineers and many more but the college decreases it with a code. The next one is dullness of modern life. Dullness of life is not going to college. And lastly,

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Jorge Cleofas Bocobo

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Jorge Cleofas Bocobo was born in Gerona, Tarlac Province, on the Philippine island of Luzon, on October 19, 1886. His early education was in his hometown, but at the age of 17 he travelled to Manila to attend a private school. In 1904, he was selected to be one of the 100 Philippine students to participate in the Pensionado program that sent exceptional Philippine students to America to attend a U.S. college. Bocobo is one of at least seven Pensiondo students to attend the Indiana University Law School. Others include Antonio de las Alas (LL.B. 1908), Franciso Afan Delgado (LL.B. 1097), Mariano Honrade de Joya (LL.B. 1907), Proceso Gonzalez Sanchez LL.B. 1908), Jose Valdez, and Pedro V. Sindico.

Before entering the Indiana University School of Law, Bocobo finished his high school education in San Diego, California. During his second and third year at IU, Bocobo was a member of the law school’s Reinhard Club. In June of 1907, Bocobo receiv

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Dr. JORGE BOCOBO

Dr. Jorge Bocobo

Dr. Jorge Bocobo was a much travelled man, scholar, lawyer, writer, journalist, religious leader, educator, political scientist and successful college executive. He prepared himself well for any task that awaited him. Into any undertaking, he always put the best of his energies and, to use his own expression, "made the failure of any work which I undertake my own failure, its success my own success."

He was born on October 19, 1886 in Gerona, Tarlac to Don Tranquilino Bocobo y Duenas and Dona Rita Teodora Tabago y Cleofas. Talking about his family, he wrote, "my father's family name was Bocubuc but at the suggestion of the Spanish alferez in Gerona illy father changed it to Bocobo. My father was induced to make the change because people used to tease him and his brothers and sisters as bubuc. " He learned the alphabet from his mother and writing from his father, using as a primer the Cartilla, a paperbound pamphlet containing the Spanish alp