Significance and Purpose
As a collection, Filipiniana materials are required for studying the Philippines. The materials are helpful in providing information on the “extent of the intellectual faculties of born” in the Philippines and the industries, likings, and inclinations of these people, and the like.
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“The hysterical find too much significance in things. The depressed find too little.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“With the breakdown of the traditional institutions which convey values, more of the burdens and responsibility for transmitting values fall upon parental shoulders, and it is getting harder all the time both to embody the virtues we hope to teach our children and to find for ourselves the ideals and values that will give our own lives purpose and direction.”
—Neil Kurshan (20th century)