Category: jose rizal
Rizal’s Legacy for the 21st Century
PROGRESSIVE EDUCATION, SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT IN DAPITAN Social Science Diliman Dec 2011 Floro Quibuyen Abstract Rizal’s four years in Dapitan have not been fully explored for the light they can shed on contemporary issues in community development and … Continue reading
Rizal and socialism (2)
By Elmer Ordonez MY earlier column (8/7) dwelt on the influence of socialist ideas on Rizal and his fellow propagandists in Europe. I noted that of the two contending strains of socialism in late 19th century, Marxist and anarchist, the … Continue reading
rizal, tagalog, nation
it’s really too bad that we haven’t tried hard enough as a people to develop tagalog into a national language. then maybe we would have a better sense of national interests as opposed to foreign interests, and we could be making … Continue reading
currency: how cheap is rizal
it was the inquirer‘s ramon n. villegas in Coming up-the redesigned Philippine currency who said: From the ’70s to the ’90s, the lower denominations of paper bills which featured the revolutionary founders of the nation—Rizal, Bonifacio, Jacinto, Mabini—were eliminated. Their … Continue reading
rizal redux
a decade or so ago, when all i had read were renato constantino’s and teodoro agoncillo’s versions of revolutionary philippine history i actually believed that andres bonifacio, not jose rizal, deserved to be national hero; that rizal didn’t even approve … Continue reading