Kartilya ng Katipunan

Question 1

What is the KKK?

Answer 1

The Kataas-taasang Kagalang-galangang Katipunan ng mga Anak ng Bayan (KKK) was a revolutionary society that espoused independence and freedom for the Philippines through force of arms.

Question 2

What were the objectives of the KKK?

Answer 2

• Separation of the Philippines from Spain
• Development of the Filipinos as citizens of their own nation once
independence was achieved

Question 3

Influences of KKK

Answer 3

• Recruitment process followed Masonic initiation rites
• Structure based on Rizal’s La Liga Filipina

Question 4

Motto

Answer 4

One Like All

Question 5

Structure

Answer 5

• Supreme Council
• Provincial Council
• Popular Council

Question 6

Duties of Members

Answer 6

1. Unite the whole archipelago into one compact, homogenous body
2. Mutual protection
3. Defense
4. Encouragement of education, agriculture, and commerce
5. Study and application of reforms

Question 7

Purpose of Liga

Answer 7

Build the foundations of a national community so as to assure its readiness when independence came

Question 8

When and where was Emilio Jacinto born?

Answer 8

December 15, 1875 in Tondo, Manila

Question 9

Who were Emilio Jacinto’s parents?

Answer 9

Mariano Jacinto (bookkeeper) and Josefa Dizon

Question 10

Where did Emilio Jacinto got his secondary education from?

Answer 10

Colegio de San Juan de Letran

Question 11

Where did he study law and improved his skills in Spanish?

Answer 11

University of Sto. Tomas

Question 12

What age did Emilio Jacinto join the Katipunan?

Answer 12

Between the age of 18 and 19

Question 13

What was Emilio Jacinto’s symbolic name?

Answer 13

Pingkian

Question 14

Contributions of Emilio Jacinto

Answer 14

1. Wrote the Kartilya and oath of the Katipuneros
2. Edited the movement’s newspaper, Kalayaan
3. Authored literary writings under the pen-named “Dimas Ilaw”
4. Served the movement as secretary, fiscal, editors and later appointed General (at 21 years old)
5. Served as advisor to the Supremo

Question 15

True or False: Emilio Jacinto got wounded and captured in battle vs Spaniards in Magdalena, Laguna

Answer 15

True

Question 16

True or False: Planned to continue his law studies but went back to Laguna to fight the Americans

Answer 16

True

Question 17

Where did Emilio Jacinto established his headquarters and contracted malaria?

Answer 17

Majayjay, Laguna

Question 18

When did Emilio Jacinto die?

Answer 18

April 06, 1899

Question 19

What is the Kartilya?

Answer 19

• Primary lessons for the members of the Katipunan
• Embodied the moral and nationalistic principles of a nation
• Wrote by Emilio Jacinto in 1892, when he was just 17 years old.

Question 20

What was the Katipunan’s main rule?

Answer 20

true love of native land and genuine compassion for one another

Question 21

What is the relevance of the document to modern Filipinos?

Answer 21

The Kartilya reads like a simple creed for living in the light of many changes in the present.

Question 22

Teachings of the Katipunan of the Sons of the People (1)

Answer 22

• A life that is not dedicated to a great and sacred cause is like a tree without a shade, or a poisonous weed.

• A good deed lacks virtue if it springs from a desire for personal profit and not from a sincere desire to do good.

• True charity resides in acts of compassion, in love for one’s fellow men, and in making true. Reason the measure of every move, deed and word.

• Be their skin dark or pale, all men are equal. One can be superior to another in knowledge, wealth and beauty, but not in being.

• A person with a noble character values honor above self-interest, while a person with ignoble character values self-interest.

• An honorable man’s word is his bond.

• Don’t waste time; lost wealth may be recovered, but time lost is lost forever.

Question 23

Teachings of the Katipunan of the Sons of the People (2)

Answer 23

• Defend the oppressed and fight the oppressor.

• An intelligent man is he who takes care in everything he says and keeps quiet about what must be kept in secret.

• Along the thorny path of life, the man leads the way, and his wife and children follow; If the leader does the way of perdition, then so do those who are led.

• Do not regard a woman as a mere plaything, but as a helpmate and partner in hardships of this existence. Have due regard to her weakness and remember the mother who brought you into this world and nurtured you in your infancy.

• What you would not want done to your wife, daughter and sister, do not do to the wife, daughter and sister of another.

• A man’s worth does not come from him being a king, or in the height of his nose and the whiteness of his face, or in him being a priest, a representative of God, or in his exalted position on the face of the earth. Pure and truly noble is he who, though born in the forest and able to speak only his own tongue, behaves decently, is true to his word, has dignity and honor, who is not an oppressor and does not abet oppressors, who knows how to cherish and look after the land of his birth.

Question 24

Teachings of the Katipunan of the Sons of the People (3)

Answer 24

• When these doctrines have spread and the brilliant sun of beloved liberty shines on these poor Islands, and sheds its sweet light upon a united race, a people in everlasting happiness, then the lives lost, the struggle and the suffering will have been more than recompensed.