A little point of trivia to those of you who didn’t grow up in the Philippines: I grew up in a city called Dasmariñas – a surprisingly small, town-ish area in the province of Cavite. While admittedly, Dasmariñas is a bit too small to be considered as a full-blown city, what it makes up for in towering skyscrapers and downtown avenues is the abundance of schools in the area. Public schools are everywhere, and just about anyone who calls themselves a respectable Dasmarineño had studied in one.