Onofre R. Pagsanghan (born June 12, 1927) is a renowned educator in the Philippines. He graduated from high school at the Ateneo de Manila University in 1947 and also earned his AB in Education in 1951 and MA in English literature in 1984 from the same university. He started his career in the university's high school department in 1951 and has taught the English and Filipino languages ever since. He married Florinda Duran in 1960 and had three children named Stella, Joel and Sylvia. The Tanghalang Onofre Pagsanghan theater was named after him in honor of his then 45th year of teaching service to the university.
"He has lectured extensively throughout the Philippines, literally from Aparri to Jolo, on education topics, specifically on “Teaching as a Vocation.” He is a regular lecturer for the Department of Education. He has authored Hasik, Layag, and Makabagong Pilipino, three textbooks used in several high schools. He has also written two other textbooks for high school use, Reaching Out and Sagwan. In 1997, he founded the Sibol-Hesus School, a free tutorial school for public high school students.
Mr. Pagsi, as his students fondly call him, has utilized and continues to utilize the theater as a means to teach not just English and Filipino but Christian values as well. He began “teaching” theatre as moderator of the Ateneo High School Dramatics Society in 1956, managed its transition into Dulaang Sibol in 1966, and has won recognition as a playwright and director in the succeeding decades."
Mr. Pagsi teaches the class of 1A as their homeroom adviser and English teacher. 1A has been handled by him since the 80s. His MP or "Memorable Passage" for this school year is "Love one another as I have loved you."
Mr. Pagsi is currently serving his 60th year as a teacher.
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Other than his yearly "MPs", Mr. Pagsi also puts up a different Memorable Passage (also an "MP") at the beginning of every week.
Here is a list of his "MPs" for the school year 2011-2012
"You are what you do repeatedly, excellence is not an act, it's a habit."-Aristotle
"To fail to prepare is to prepare to fail."-Anonymous
"Many people sit on their butts, they've got the dream, but not the guts."-Liza Minelli
"The secret to success is on the treadmill, because if you say you will run 5 miles, and you only run 3, I have nothing to fear from you, because when I say I will run 5 miles, I run 10. With that mindset, it is difficult to lose."-Will Smith
"Each man's life touches so many other lives." "No man is a failure who has friends."-from Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life
"The unexamined life is not worth living." - Socrates
"What the wise do in the beginning, fools do in the end." - Warren Buffett
"There are three words I like to repeat to myself, glass half full, just to remind myself to be grateful for everything I have."-Goldie Hawn
"There is enough for a man's need. There is never enough for a man's greed." - Gandhi
"You can get through life with bad manners, but it's easier with good manners." - Lilian Gish
"Face the light, and the shadow is behind you; turn your back to the light and the shadow will always be in front of you." - Anonymous
"Ang masakit at mapait ay nagiging kaakit-akit depende sa bakit." - Fr. Francis Alvarez, S.J.
"You can always tell a real friend when you've made a fool of yourself, he won't feel you've done a permanent job." - Lawrence Peter
"Effort only fully releases its rewards after a person refuses to quit." - B.C. Forbes
"My basic principle is that you don't make decisions because they are easy; you don't make decisions because they are cheap; you don't make them because they are popular; you make them because they are right!" - Theodore Hesburgh
"I've missed more than 9000 shots, I've lost almost 300 games. I've failed over and over again in life. And that is why I succeed." - Michael Jordan
"Their plans falter for them to see if their cause is still worth fighting for." - Lois Lowry's The Giver
"The first rule for holes, when you're in one: stop digging" - Anonymous
"Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not; it is the first lesson that ought to be learned; and however early a man's training begins, it is probably the last lesson he learns thoroughly." - Anonymous
Ford Foundation Grant to observe educational television in the United States (1963)
UNESCO and British Council Fellowships to observe theater in the United States (1971)
Japan Foundation Scholarship to observe the Japanese system of education (1981)
New York University Scholarship on American Culture (1986)