Read this in The Manila Times digital edition.
AS forefathers of former senator Santanina Rasul sailed out of the Bay of Bengal into the promised land of Mindanao, there was perhaps this early realization that their dreams of a new life in the new land would only be possible through industry, grit and this requisite — good education. I am using "perhaps" because I don't really know their migration story, but it is a fact that the family did well in Mindanao. And in the 8th Congress, the first Congress after martial law and where Mrs. Rasul was an esteemed member, a big part of her legislative work was devoted to the education sector.
