Name: Karylle Jed D. Dumanglas
GE 10 – DD

Insights on: ” 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐞 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐨𝐧 𝐞𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐦𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐢𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞?”

Whole Person Education which was founded by the United Board – a group of unions who encourage Christian higher education in Asia, deems of utmost salience in one’s foundation of holistic development, aimed to elevate, enhance, and flourish the multi-faceted aspects of a person’s life: physically, spiritually, mentally, or emotionally. According to Silliman University, this is the approach to learning that is encapsulated in its tri-logical ministry of teaching, healing and preaching, providing opportunities of deep reflection towards an appreciation of self in relation to the larger community. In the course of time, humanity had realized that learning does not only lie inside the four vast walls in our classrooms, nor in our lectures or review notes. Learning, education, and development covers a wide horizon, beneath what and where we can possibly reach– in diverse settings, various experiences, and people we interact with. Alongside this course, WPE, also entails and arrays the six areas of intelligence development including IQ (Intelligence Quotient), EQ (Emotional Intelligence), SQ (Social Intelligence), AQ (Adversity Intelligence), CQ (Cultural Intelligence) and FQ (Financial Intelligence). Certainly, they differ in aspects but all of which are essential in transforming the student’s development. Multiple intelligence is deemed necessary in transforming students like me to not just dwell and be stagnated into one aspect – but rather, to believe that a person himself has the capacity to associate and possess a range of different types of intelligence – although one intelligence may be higher or lower than the other, for instance, Jolly has a high level of IQ but has low EQ. This boils down to make us understand and appreciate which strengths and weaknesses we have, develop these weaker areas, and appreciate the diversity of our own human intelligence.

Over the years, admitting it or not, we often tend to value IQ more over the rest, in view of the fact that we are somehow confined into the classroom, sometimes overwhelmed and pressured, only to go beyond academics and the pursuit of learning, but I believe we should be receptive and acquainted in obscured areas of what we are able to do, to not embed ourselves into one area of intelligence. In the end, we will be able to explore and realize that we are actually good at something.