At 80, Briones leads the largest bureaucracy with hundreds of thousands of personnel and millions of students. • ‘They say I am already old but I believe I have the youngest ideas. There is no correlation between the state of my knees and the state of my brain,’ she said. • Believing that education must continue even amid a pandemic, she motivated key officials of DepEd to come up with the Basic Education – Learning Continuity Plan (BE-LCP). • Briones served as Vice-President for Administration and Finance of the University of the Philippines System. Before she was appointed in 20...