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GE-LWR private: Provided, that in the collegiate Lesson 1: RA 1425 courses, the original or unexpurgated By: Francis John B. Bayato editions of the Noli Me Tangere and El...

GE-LWR private: Provided, that in the collegiate Lesson 1: RA 1425 courses, the original or unexpurgated By: Francis John B. Bayato editions of the Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo or their English translation AN ACT TO INCLUDE IN THE shall be used as basic texts. CURRICULA OF ALL PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SCHOOLS, COLLEGES AND The Board of National Education is hereby UNIVERSITIES COURSES ON THE LIFE, authorized and directed to adopt forthwith WORKS AND WRITINGS OF JOSE RIZAL, measures to implement and carry out the PARTICULARLY HIS NOVELS NOLI ME provisions of this Section, including the TANGERE AND EL FILIBUSTERISMO, writing and printing of appropriate primers, AUTHORIZING THE PRINTING AND readers and textbooks. The Board shall, DISTRIBUTION THEREOF, AND FOR within sixty (60) days from the effectivity of OTHER PURPOSES this Act, promulgate rules and regulations, including those of a disciplinary nature, to WHEREAS, today, more than any other carry out and enforce the provisions of this period of our history, there is a need for a re- Act. The Board shall promulgate rules and dedication to the ideals of freedom and regulations providing for the exemption of nationalism for which our heroes lived and students for reasons of religious belief died; stated in a sworn written statement, from the requirement of the provision contained in the WHEREAS, it is meet that in honoring them, second part of the first paragraph of this particularly the national hero and patriot, section; but not from taking the course Jose Rizal, we remember with special provided for in the first part of said fondness and devotion their lives and works paragraph. Said rules and regulations shall that have shaped the national character; take effect thirty (30) days after their publication in the Official Gazette. WHEREAS, the life, works and writing of Jose Rizal, particularly his novels Noli Me SECTION 2. It shall be obligatory on all Tangere and El Filibusterismo, are a constant schools, colleges and universities to keep in and inspiring source of patriotism with which their libraries an adequate number of copies the minds of the youth, especially during their of the original and unexpurgated editions of formative and decisive years in school, the Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo, as should be suffused; well as of Rizal’s other works and biography. The said unexpurgated editions of the Noli WHEREAS, all educational institutions are Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo or their under the supervision of, and subject to translations in English as well as other regulation by the State, and all schools are writings of Rizal shall be included in the list enjoined to develop moral character, of approved books for required reading in all personal discipline, civic conscience and public or private schools, colleges and to teach the duties of citizenship; Now, universities. therefore, The Board of National Education shall SECTION 1. Courses on the life, works, determine the adequacy of the number of and writings of Jose Rizal, particularly his books, depending upon the enrollment of novel Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo, the school, college or university. shall be included in the curricula of all schools, colleges and universities, public or SECTION 3. The Board of National TOPIC 1: TWO EXTREMES Education shall cause the translation of the Reasons Why Rizal is Applicable Today Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo, as well as other writings of Jose Rizal into - he is a hero. he is valid all the time, some English, Tagalog, and the principal Philippine transformed him into a demi-god dialects; cause them to be printed in cheap, - Rizal’s memory: our love to him as a popular editions; and cause them to be hero, but some only consider those distributed, free of charge, to persons harmless and non-controversial aspects desiring to read them, through the Purok of his life organizations and Barrio Councils throughout the country. TOPIC 2: “A DEVITALIZED” RIZAL - both distort the meaning of Rizal SECTION 4. Nothing in this Act shall be (especially those who view his works as construed as amendment or repealing unpalatable and dangerous) section nine hundred twenty-seven of the - safer hero Administrative Code, prohibiting the - no man can stand against Rizal’s discussion of religious doctrines by public reputation even those reputations built up school teachers and other persons engaged by high-pressure of salesmanship in any public school. - Rizal’s works exposed the defects of Philippine society during that period SECTION 5. The sum of three hundred - He is also seen to write about our time, thousand pesos is hereby authorized to be seemingly prophesying our appropriated out of any fund not otherwise backwardness, ignorance, and appropriated in the National Treasury to carry intolerance out the purposes of this Act. - mirror the ills of Philippine society SECTION 6. This Act shall take effect upon TOPIC 3: A MIRROR OF THE PAST its approval. - he wants reform - The goal is to make Rizal obsolete: by Approved: June 12, 1956 eradicating the problems Rizal pertains to Published in the Official Gazette, Vol. 52, No. 6, p. 2971 in June 1956. TOPIC 4: TULISANG IN CADILLACS [MERCEDES BENZES] Lesson 2: To Make Rizal Obsolete - why is he the national hero? i. best understand the society INTRODUCTION: where he lives a. Rizal’s Teachings ii. knows the problem and - his greatness aspirations of the people - our lack of greatness as a nation iii. moves the people to strive for - application and inspirational value better b. Rizal - Present problem: - mirrors our voices, defects, and i. those who make politics as a meanness business, the government as a - mirrors to shame us and the other to point milking cow the way to our regeneration ii. corruption TOPIC 5: THE PELAEZES OF THE - Sense of pride PRESENTS - Emphasis on the indolence of the - the problem with the Capitalists Filipinos - Many of us wanted on the safe side - Many people are personalistic and TOPIC 6: ONE-ARMED BANDIT individualistic - fixers and influences peddlers - government employee enmeshes people TOPIC 12: BASILIO IN OUR MIDST in red tape so that they may “facilitate” or - Weak man, he forgot about his past “experience” matters for consideration - His experience with cruelty and injustice made him a timid man who just wanted to TOPIC 7: BORROWED DEFECTS live in peace - foresight about neocolonialism (especially foreign language) TOPIC 13: A SOCIAL TO ANTI-SOCIAL BEHAVIOR TOPIC 8: WITHOUT DEFENSES - Basilio is good – mirrors hardworking - he is not speaking sentimentalist, he is a Filipinos – but his apathy was not a good linguist, we must learn to speak ours first model before others - We have our shared destiny as citizens BUT; of this nation - we open ourselves to the incursions of a - Ignore everything, just to live in peace foreign culture - asocial individualism - cultural invasion - anti-social behavior - it has swept native traditions, manners, - they become dummies for foreign and values interest, corrupt government officials - stifled the development of our native culture, resulting to only mimicking the TOPIC 14: A NATION OF RIZALS other in its most banal phase - Rizal is not Basilio - Rizal seeks for the interest of the country TOPIC 9: OUR INTELLECTUAL - We must make Rizal obsolete CAPTIVITY - language requirement no longer exists TOPIC 15: FROM DREAM TO REALITY - we should not pretend - We are still ignorant - Making him obsolete doesn’t mean TOPIC 10: FOREIGNERS’ PARADISE forgetting him, but achieving his ideals - in PH, foreigners have more chance of - Nationalistic desires, no longer Basilio success, showing the defect of our and Dona Victorina, and no more society, ex. Don Tiburcio de Espadana Simoun-motivated by revenge and Alice Guo - From dream to reality TOPIC 11: BROKE PEOPLE - Filipino First Ideal --- end --- - we lost ourselves – as Filipinos - not because our society is ill, thus, we must lose our love, throw it away from our memories, and be ashamed, we must seek to cure it.