PEOPLE might be wondering what I'm doing being a speaker in a nationwide leadership camp for science scholars sponsored by the Department of Science and Technology Science Education Institute (DoST-SEI) for the third year now since 2022. Well, I, too, have been wondering myself. I am not from the hard sciences; rather, I am a historian, which is considered a social science.

But DoST-SEI believes that to stop the brain drain, we should instill in the scholars a sense of civic duty and patriotism. To both want to serve and to lead — a servant leader.