Culture of excellence vs. profit orientation

This I learned from watching NHK, the Japanese channel.

The culture of excellence of the Japanese pushes them to make the pursuit of excellence as the driving force in whatever they do. They do not take a problem or a difficulty as a reason to stop whatever they have set out to do but instead, they work hard to find a way to solve the problem until they succeed. And their reward is the satisfaction of seeing a beautiful and excellent product made by their own hands. This is true whether what they are making are traditional crafts or modern gadgets and items.

In contrast, in the Philippines, excellence seems to be subordinated to the pursuit of profit and immediate gain. One example I can think of are the preponderance of one day seminars to make this or that for business. Even the handouts given in these seminars are shoddy and frustratingly inadequate in terms of the information it gives out and if you want more, you have to pay more.

As a result, our training centers, both government and private, from the Department of Science and Technology, to state universities, to training centers, instead of being noted as excellent resource centers become dispensers only of mediocrity.

I hope our government realizes this and do something about it.