Sotero H. Laurel
Sotero H. Laurel, like a long list of Laurels, is a nationalist and a lawyer. His namesake and grandfather, Sotero, was also a lawyer who worked with Apolinario Mabini and Marcelo H. del Pilar the propaganda movement.
Sotero earned his law degree at the University of the Philippines. He pursued post - graduate studies at the University of Santo Tomas. Later, at Harvard University he specialized in international and constitutional law.
Sotero laurel chose the classroom to share with aspiring law students his vast knowledge of law. He lectured and reviewed bar examinees on jurisprudence (the science and philosophy of human law), constitutional and international law at the Far Eastern University, Philippine Law School and Lyceum of the Philippines. As its president, Laurel nursed the Lyceum into the leading training ground of legal luminaries. He also founded a Lyceum branch in Batangas.
A leading Filipino educator, Laurel accents the need for an educational system that would instill a “passionate commitment to nationalism” among students. Laurel lamented that Filipino students complete their schooling without developing a profound sense of nationalism. Laurel realized that inculcating the awareness of nationhood is a lengthy educational process.
Laurel envisioned the introduction of legislation that would reorient the educational curricula along nationalistic objective and goals. He planned legislative proposals that will implement the constitutional provision extending free education to high school level. That includes delivering resources to fund free schooling of high school students. Laurel is eyeing the possibility of tapping part of the money spent on entertainment for education and human resource development.
His agenda for economic recovery rests on laws that would promote productivity; distribute the just rewards of production to producers and creation of job opportunities and other sources of livelihood.
Sotero H. Laurel, like a long list of Laurels, is a nationalist and a lawyer. His namesake and grandfather, Sotero, was also a lawyer who worked with Apolinario Mabini and Marcelo H. del Pilar the propaganda movement.
Sotero earned his law degree at the University of the Philippines. He pursued post - graduate studies at the University of Santo Tomas. Later, at Harvard University he specialized in international and constitutional law.
Sotero laurel chose the classroom to share with aspiring law students his vast knowledge of law. He lectured and reviewed bar examinees on jurisprudence (the science and philosophy of human law), constitutional and international law at the Far Eastern University, Philippine Law School and Lyceum of the Philippines. As its president, Laurel nursed the Lyceum into the leading training ground of legal luminaries. He also founded a Lyceum branch in Batangas.
A leading Filipino educator, Laurel accents the need for an educational system that would instill a “passionate commitment to nationalism” among students. Laurel lamented that Filipino students complete their schooling without developing a profound sense of nationalism. Laurel realized that inculcating the awareness of nationhood is a lengthy educational process.
Laurel envisioned the introduction of legislation that would reorient the educational curricula along nationalistic objective and goals. He planned legislative proposals that will implement the constitutional provision extending free education to high school level. That includes delivering resources to fund free schooling of high school students. Laurel is eyeing the possibility of tapping part of the money spent on entertainment for education and human resource development.
His agenda for economic recovery rests on laws that would promote productivity; distribute the just rewards of production to producers and creation of job opportunities and other sources of livelihood.