RIZAL Flashcards
What did Senator Claro Recto submitted on the Senate Committee on Education
Senate Bill 438
Senate Bill 438 was proposed on
April 3, 1956
“An Act to Make Noli Me
Tangere and El Filibusterismo Compulsory Reading Matter in All
Public
Senate Bill No. 438,
________________________., who was then the Chairman of
the Committee on Education, sponsored the Noli-Fili Bill in
the senate and presented it to
the Upper House.
Senator Jose P. Laurel, Sr
when was the Noli Fili bill presented in the upper house
April 17, 1956
________________________ argued
that Jose Rizal’ novels from
the past should not be taught
in schools because
they do not accurately depict current conditions and may give a false impression of the
country.
Father Jesus Cavanna
Among the _______ pages of Noli Me Tangere, only __ passages are
nationalistic while ____ passages are anti-Catholic.
333, 25, 120
____ lines from Noli Me Tangere
and ___ lines in El Filibusterismo
were offensive to the Catholic
doctrine.
170, 50
These catholic groups organized opposition
to the bill:
Catholic Action of the Philippines
Congregation of the Mission
Knights of Columbus
Catholic Teachers Guild
Congressman Jacobo Z. Gonzales
filed a similar bill to SB 438 called __________________ to the House of
Representatives.
House Bill No. 5561
House Bill No. 5561 was filed on
April 19, 1956
not censored or edited to
remove offensive or objectionable
content
unexpurgated
to remove or censor offensive or
objectionable content, especially from a text.
expurgated
On ________________ and ______________________, Senate Bill No. 438
and House Bill No. 5561 were both unanimously approved on the second reading and in the Lower
House.
May 12, 1956
May 14, 1956
On _______________, the bill was
signed into law by President
Ramon Magsaysay, giving birth to
______________________ or the Rizal
Law.
June 12, 1956, Republic Act 1425
“Act to Include in the Curricula of All Public and Private Schools, Colleges
and Universities Courses on the Life, Works and Writings of Jose Rizal,
Particularly His Novels Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo, Authorizing
the Printing and Distribution Thereof, and for Other Purposes.”
“Rizal Law”
The purpose of enacting the
Rizal Law is to __________________________
educate the
young generation of the
Philippines about the ideals
and principles for which Rizal
sacrificed his life.
The first section
of the law
concerns
__________________________
mandating the
students to read
Rizal’s novels
The second section of
the law require the
schools to have______________________________________________
a sufficient number of
copies of unexpurgated edition
of the novels in their
libraries
The third section of the
law aims to make ________________________________________
Rizal’s
writings more readily
available to the general
public by promoting their
printing at an affordable
cost, or in some cases,
providing them for free.
The fourth section of the
law clarifies ____________________________________________
it will not
change a specific section
of the Administrative
Code that prohibits public
school teachers from
discussing religious
doctrines.
The fifth section of the
law authorizes ______________________________________
the
unallocated funds to be
used to implement the
act.
The last section of the
law states ______________________________
that the act
will immediately take
effect.
The goals of the Rizal Law can be summarized
in the following three points:
- To rededicate the lives of youth to the ideals of freedom and nationalism, for which our heroes lived and died.
- To pay tribute to our national hero for devoting his life and works in shaping the Filipino character.
- To gain an inspiring source of
patriotism through the study of
Rizal’s life, works, and writings.
