Catholic school alumni challenged to live with integrity, resist corruption
At the 2025 CEAP National Convention in Pasay City on Sept. 30, 2025, Catholic educators urge stronger government–private partnerships to address the country’s education crisis. Fr. Karel San Juan, CEAP president, challenged millions of Catholic school alumni to live with integrity and resist corruption, saying: 'Remember the values we taught you—truth, decency, social justice, and transformation. It is shameful if you are a Catholic school graduate and then you got corrupt.' CEAP officials also stressed the importance of ethics in the curriculum. 'Ethics is not optional, it is essential,' said CEAP Executive Director Marcy Dionisio.
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00:00We will have a lot of things to tell them because I think holding this convention is a strong message to our students and to our millions of alokai in the Philippines.
00:14Many things. One, remember your school and the values we taught you. Live them out as consistently as possible. Fight for integrity in whatever profession you have chosen in your lives. And fight for truth.
00:32Rekindle your spirit. Come home to your schools and universities to rekindle the spirit of truth, decency, social justice, and social transformation.
00:45It's sort of saying, nakahaya naman kayo kung Catholic school, graduate kayo. Tapos nag-a-correct kayo.
00:53Kasi you're living lives contrary to the very essence of the values that we have taught you in the schools and universities.
01:01But we want to recognize as well, many of our alumni who are heroes, good and great public servants and leaders in government, in business, in other sectors.
01:14They are nation builders. They innovate. They are compassionate to the poor. We have very good lawyers, doctors, teachers.
01:24Our teachers who run even the public school system of our university. We are very, mighty proud of them.
01:35But as Father June said, the responsibility of forming our students and alumni are not just lodged in our schools.
01:42The families and all communities form the students and adults. It takes the whole community, the school is just one part of that community to raise a child and to raise a student and a graduate.
01:59We are talking about good people, initially, when they came to Catholic school or other schools and eventually, they turn into thieves.
02:13And that's for the same reason why CEP is firmly opposing the removal of ethics in the general education curriculum.
02:23As CEP, we say, ethics is not optional. It is essential.
02:30Ganito na nga, tas katanggalin pa natin ang ethics.
02:32O ano nang natin.
02:33O ano nang natin.
02:36O ano nang natin.
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