Abject Lesson on MVP split with Ateneo

Ateneo Professor on Entrepreneurship


" Failure to manage one’s affairs – such as weak institutions, failed regulatory agencies, corrupt enforcements – do not mean a particular business is per se evil, as suggested about mining in that Jesuit Paper,” he said. “It is man’s frailty – Filipino frailty to be exact – that should be blamed, not the business.”
“I’ve already pointed out the examples of good mining practices elsewhere,” he added. “Indeed, the Filipino’s failure to manage well is shown in almost all facets of our lives – poor airports, poor sewerage, unclean air, mediocre economic growth. The list is long. Our preponderant task as a people is simply to do better – to strive for excellence. Isn’t that the Ateneo motto?”

These were the famous lines from MVP to Fr. Jett Villarin, Ateneo president.

But the goal is to excel to be better.

That is right it is the Ateneo motto.  It  is about self mastery.

It is entrepreneurship.

So we can not say the government or this or that has failed.

It is simply that the personal mastery of people running the affairs of that institution has not been up to par.