VOLUME 13 NUMBER 2 (July to December 2020)

Christopher C. Bernido and M. Victoria Carpio-Bernido*

Central Visayan Institute Foundation, Jagna, Bohol,
      6308 Philippines

The development of scientific manpower in different countries often follows a template patterned after what have been implemented in more advanced countries. For a developing country, however, blindly applying a borrowed template carries with it pitfalls often unnoticed and unrecognized by planners who then keep on wondering why things are not working the way they should. Failure to recognize and pinpoint seemingly unimportant characteristics and behavioral features of a culture could undermine any well laid long-range plan. Using a wrong template to achieve targets is like an ill-fitting dress with the wearer urging the body to bulk up or slim down quickly, and refusing to realize it is much more efficient to simply change the dress and move on from there.