Posted at 04/02/2011 5:53 PM | Updated as of 04/02/2011 11:43 PM
Corona, who graduated as Doctor of Civil Law, Summa Cum Laude, is the graduating class' valedictorian.
Corona, who started the program when he was already a Supreme Court justice, is among the 6 who finished summa cum laude among 400 graduates.
His dissertation was on environmental law. Its title: "To Every One His Due: The Philippine Judiciary at the Forefront of Promoting Environmental Justice."
In his valedictory address, he talked about his late mother Eugenia O. Coronado, who also graduated summa cum laude 70 years ago. She earned her bachelor's degree in Commerce, major in Accounting also from UST.
Corona underscored the importance of education, as with it “come knowledge, understanding, and finally, the holy grail of wisdom and everything that makes us human.”
“Education is not simply a matter of ingesting information or of committing facts and figures to memory but rather of forming and stimulating the mind not only to think but also to think correctly, and most important of all, to choose rightly, wisely, and well,” he said in his speech. “Education will mean nothing if it is directed at the mind alone. The heart has to be involved as well.”
“We must accept the fact that our education, in specie aeternitatis, carries an unavoidable moral burden and a grave social responsibility – to God, to our fellowmen, to our country, to our society. That burden and that responsibility are etched in our soul. Our soul is that part of us that sees the dream,” he added.
Before UST, the Chief Justice studied in another school, Ateneo de Manila.
He graduated with gold medal honors from the Ateneo de Manila grade school (1962) and high school (1966). He obtained his Bachelor of Arts degree, also with honors, from the Ateneo De Manila University in 1970.
He finished his Bachelor of Laws at the Ateneo Law School in 1974, graduating no. 5 in his class, and placed among the Top 25 during that year’s bar examinations. After law school, he received his Master’s degree in Business Administration at the Ateneo Professional Schools.
In 1982, he obtained his LL.M. degree from the Harvard Law School in Boston, Massachusetts.
He taught Commercial Law, Taxation, and Corporation Law at the Ateneo Law School for 17 years.
Former President and now Congresswoman Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo appointed Corona as 23rd Chief Justice of the Supreme Court May of last year. He was appointed to the highest tribunal on April 9, 2002. - with report from Ina Reformina, ABS-CBN News
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