Rizal Law

Question 1

Rizal Law is also known as

Answer 1

RA 1425

Question 2

What is the Rizal Law?

Answer 2

Mandatory study of Rizal’s Life & Works

Question 3

Who signed the Rizal Law?

Answer 3

President Ramon Magsaysay

Question 4

When did President Ramon Magsaysay signed the Rizal Law and it’s Effectiveness?

Answer 4

June 12, 1956
effective 30 days after its implementation

Question 5

Who authored the Rizal bill?

Answer 5

Senator Claro M. Recto

Question 6

Who was the chairman of the committee on education that sponsored the bill in the senate?

Answer 6

Senator Jose P. Laurel

Question 7

Approval of RA 1425?

Answer 7

June 12, 1956

Question 8

The Presidential Memorandum Order of President Ramos that directed the DECS and CHED to immediately fully implement the bill

Answer 8

Presidential Memorandum Order 247 dated Dec 26, 1994

Question 9

Ched ordered all colleges and universities to offer Rizal course as a separate 3 unit course fully and immediately

Answer 9

CHED Memorandum Order 6 dated February 15, 1996

Question 10

Reasons of Persons who blocked the Approval of Rizal bill

Answer 10

Noli and El Fili
- damaging to the clerics
- Rizal wrote them estranged from Catholic faith and Religion
- Rizal contradict many of the Christian belief
- Catholic students to read contradicting their faith (Philippine Constitutional Provision Art. 3, Sec 1, Par. 7)

Question 11

Reasons of Persons who pushed the Approval of the Rizal Bill

Answer 11

Need
- rededication to the ideals of freedom and nationalism
- remember the lives and works of our heroes who shaped national character
- develop moral character, personal discipline, civic conscience and teach duties of citizenship
- Patriotism through Rizal’s work