What Is The Importance of Studying Rizal's Life, His Writings and Other Heroes?
What Is The Importance of Studying Rizal's Life, His Writings and Other Heroes?
What Is The Importance of Studying Rizal's Life, His Writings and Other Heroes?
It is important to study rizal’s life and his writings including other heroes because the contribution they
give to the country is priceless. We the youth know only the little background of their lives and works
and we are already moved, what about if we dig deeper into this? Of course we will learn many lessons
and inspirations with their works. The love they give for the country. Especially Dr. Rizal, who is the
mightiest. The principle of pen is mightier than the sword.
The wounds made by verbal weapons are won’t be healed easily and creates more damage to the
personality of the tyrant Spaniards that is why he is haunted by them. If all of the youth also inherit this
kind of concern and patriotism for the country, for sure we will have a nonstop cycle of dignified youths
that soon will be leaders.
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Usually, during the first day of the course, the professor asks the well-overused questions:
The teaching of Jose Rizal’s life, works, and writings is mandated by Republic Act 1425,
otherwise known as the Rizal Law. Senator Jose P. Laurel, the person who sponsored the said
law, said that since Rizal was the founder of Philippine nationalism and has contributed much to
the current standing of this nation, it is only right that the youth as well as all the people in the
country know about and learn to imbibe the great ideals for which he died. The Rizal Law,
enacted in 1956, seeks to accomplish the following goals:
1. To rededicate the lives of youth to the ideals of freedom and nationalism, for which our
heroes lived and died
2. To pay tribute to our national hero for devoting his life and works in shaping the Filipino
character
3. To gain an inspiring source of patriotism through the study of Rizal’s life, works, and
writings.
Aside from those mentioned above, there are other reasons for teaching the Rizal course in
Philippine schools:
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José Protacio Rizal Mercado Alonso y Realonda (June 19, 1861 – December 30, 1896) was a Filipino
nationalist, novelist, poet, ophthalmologist, journalist, and revolutionary. He is widely considered one of
the greatest heroes of the Philippines. He was the author of Noli Me Tángere, El Filibusterismo, and a
number of poems and essays. He was executed on December 30, 1896, by a squad of Filipino soldiers of
the Spanish Army.
José Rizal
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JOSE RIZAL, the national hero of the Philippines and pride of the Malayan race, was
born on June 19, 1861, in the town of Calamba, Laguna. He was the seventh child in a
family of 11 children (2 boys and 9 girls). Both his parents were educated and belonged
to distinguished families.
His father, Francisco Mercado Rizal, an industrious farmer whom Rizal called "a model
of fathers," came from Biñan, Laguna; while his mother, Teodora Alonzo y Quintos, a
highly cultured and accomplished woman whom Rizal called "loving and prudent
mother," was born in Meisic, Sta. Cruz, Manila. At the age of 3, he learned the alphabet
from his mother; at 5, while learning to read and write, he already showed inclinations to
be an artist. He astounded his family and relatives by his pencil drawings and sketches
and by his moldings of clay. At the age 8, he wrote a Tagalog poem, "Sa Aking Mga
Kabata," the theme of which revolves on the love of one’s language. In 1877, at the age
of 16, he obtained his Bachelor of Arts degree with an average of "excellent" from the
Ateneo Municipal de Manila. In the same year, he enrolled in Philosophy and Letters at
the University of Santo Tomas, while at the same time took courses leading to the
degree of surveyor and expert assessor at the Ateneo. He finished the latter course on
March 21, 1877 and passed the Surveyor’s examination on May 21, 1878; but because
of his age, 17, he was not granted license to practice the profession until December 30,
1881. In 1878, he enrolled in medicine at the University of Santo Tomas but had to stop
in his studies when he felt that the Filipino students were being discriminated upon by
their Dominican tutors. On May 3, 1882, he sailed for Spain where he continued his
studies at the Universidad Central de Madrid. On June 21, 1884, at the age of 23, he was
conferred the degree of Licentiate in Medicine and on June 19,1885, at the age of 24, he
finished his course in Philosophy and Letters with a grade of "excellent."
He was an expert swordsman and a good shot. In the hope of securing political and
social reforms for his country and at the same time educate his countrymen, Rizal, the
greatest apostle of Filipino nationalism, published, while in Europe, several works with
highly nationalistic and revolutionary tendencies. In March 1887, his daring book, NOLI
ME TANGERE, a satirical novel exposing the arrogance and despotism of the Spanish
clergy, was published in Berlin; in 1890 he reprinted in Paris, Morga’s SUCCESSOS
DE LAS ISLAS FILIPINAS with his annotations to prove that the Filipinos had a
civilization worthy to be proud of even long before the Spaniards set foot on Philippine
soil; on September 18, 1891, EL FILIBUSTERISMO, his second novel and a sequel to
the NOLI and more revolutionary and tragic than the latter, was printed in Ghent.
Because of his fearless exposures of the injustices committed by the civil and clerical
officials, Rizal provoked the animosity of those in power. This led himself, his relatives
and countrymen into trouble with the Spanish officials of the country. As a consequence,
he and those who had contacts with him, were shadowed; the authorities were not only
finding faults but even fabricating charges to pin him down. Thus, he was imprisoned in
Fort Santiago from July 6, 1892 to July 15, 1892 on a charge that anti-friar pamphlets
were found in the luggage of his sister Lucia who arrive with him from Hong Kong.
While a political exile in Dapitan, he engaged in agriculture, fishing and business; he
maintained and operated a hospital; he conducted classes- taught his pupils the English
and Spanish languages, the arts.
When the Philippine Revolution started on August 26, 1896, his enemies lost no time in
pressing him down. They were able to enlist witnesses that linked him with the revolt
and these were never allowed to be confronted by him. Thus, from November 3, 1986, to
the date of his execution, he was again committed to Fort Santiago. In his prison cell, he
wrote an untitled poem, now known as "Ultimo Adios" which is considered a
masterpiece and a living document expressing not only the hero’s great love of country
but also that of all Filipinos. After a mock trial, he was convicted of rebellion, sedition
and of forming illegal association. In the cold morning of December 30, 1896, Rizal, a
man whose 35 years of life had been packed with varied activities which proved that the
Filipino has capacity to equal if not excel even those who treat him as a slave, was shot
at Bagumbayan Field.
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Why is Jose Rizal the national hero? It is interesting to note that Jose Rizal’s heroism was
recognized first by the colonizing Americans and later on by General Emilio Aguinaldo.
For Rizal, violence or armed resistance only as a last resort and considered the restoration of the
people’s dignity as a justification means of achieving national liberation and self-rule. On the
other hand, Filipinos are also grateful to Andres Bonifacio’s legacy, his advocacy to an armed
revolution. We credit both Rizal and Bonifacio to have awakened the Filipino’s patriotic spirit
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