Belief in zombies arising from COVID vaccination. Inability to separate fake news from the genuine article, or to spot disinformation and lies. These two problems alone are inflicting considerable damage on national life. And both are manifestations of an even more serious problem: the crisis in Philippine education. Education officials themselves have acknowledged that the COVID pandemic has worsened the crisis. In the first year of the pandemic, around two million children did not enroll – some because their parents feared infection of the kids, but most because their families couldn’t meet …