Sunday, November 2, 2008

Is Emilio Aguinaldo really better than Andres Bonifacio in wars?

Last summer term, I enrolled in Kaspil2 and my professor was Dr. Mactal. During the module 2 or module 3 I think, the topic that was assigned to our group was about Emilio Aguinaldo and Andres Bonifacio. When we researched in the internet, we found out that it was the group led by Emilio Aguinaldo who always won during battles unlike the group led by Andres Bonifacio. So during class presentation, we said that somehow Emilio Aguinaldo is better than Andres Bonifacio as a fighter. Then Dr. Mactal asked us why do we say so. And we replied it's because the group of Andres Bonifacio always loses during wars. Then Dr. Mactal asked again, "Well, do you know how many enemies Andres Bonifacio has compared to Emilio Aguinaldo even though Emilio Aguinaldo always win during the battles?" Then our group replied that we don't know. What we just know is that the group of Emilio Aguinaldo always win compared to that of Andres Bonifacio. Then Dr. Mactal said to the class, "You know why class the group led by Emilio Aguinaldo always win during the battles? It's because the enemies of Emilio Aguinaldo are only around 10-20 and he has around 200 soldiers? So who do you think will really win in the battle? Of course Emilio Aguinaldo! Now class, in Andres Bonifacio's case is in the other way around. Sometimes Andres Bonifacio's group only has around 20 soldiers and their enemies are around 100 to 200 then definitely there's a great possibility that the group of Andres Bonifacio will really lose in the war! So it doesn't mean that the group of Emilio Aguinaldo is better than that of Andres Bonifacio because we need to take note how many soldiers does each group has and how many enemies there are!"
I learned one important lesson from sir. Don't be biased. Look for facts and information that will prove explanations.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

so were is the exact facts here?