The Life and Works of Jose Rizal (Module 1) Flashcards
An 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.
R.A. 1425
He authored the bill on the study of the life and
writings of Rizal
Claro M. Recto
(DATE) Senate Bill No. 438 was filed by the Senate Committee on Education
April 3, 1956
(DATE) Senate Committee on Education Chair Jose P. Laurel sponsored the bill and began delivering speeches for the proposed legislation
April 17, 1956
(DATE) House Bill No. 5561, an identical version of S.B.
438, was filed by Representative Jacob Z.
Gonzales
April 19, 1956
(DATE) Debates started
April 23, 1956
(DATE) The House Committee on Education approved the bill without amendments
May 2, 1956
(DATE) The debates commenced on a major point whether the compulsory reading of the texts Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo appropriated in
the bill was constitutional. The call to read the unexpurgated versions was also challenged.
May 9, 1956
(DATE) Similar amendments were adopted to the House version
May 14, 1956
(DATE) The Senate and House versions were approved
May 17, 1956
(DATE) The approved versions were then transmitted to
Malacañang and on _______________, President
Magsaysay signed the bill into law which became
Republic Act No. 1425
June 12, 1956
Issued by President Fidel Ramos, it directed the DECS and CHED to immediately and fully implement R.A. 1425 on December 26, 1994
Presidential Memorandum Order 247
It required colleges and universities to
comply with R.A. 1425, was signed by Commissioner Mona Dumlao Valisno on January 13, 1995
CHED Memo 03, Series of 1995
It requires all colleges and universities to offer Rizal course as a separate three-unit course fully and immediately, was signed by Commissioners Kate C. Botengan, Ester Albano-Garcia and Mona Dumlao-Valisno on
January 26, 1996
CHED Memo 04, Series of 1996
(DATE) Presidential Memorandum Order 247
December 26, 1994
(DATE) CHED Memo 03, Series of 1995
January 13, 1995
(DATE) CHED Memo 04, Series of 1996
January 26, 1996
“A vast majority of our people are, at the same time, Catholic and Filipino citizens. As such, they have two great loves: their country and their faith. These two loves are not conflicting loves. They
are harmonious affections, like the love for his father and for his mother.
This is the basis of my stand. Let us not create a conflict between nationalism and religion, between the government and the church.”
Senator Francisco “Soc” Rodrigo
“Now, according to Rizal himself, the object of his novels was to expose in terms of fictional
narrative the actual evils which then afflicted Philippine society. This “social cancer” was, in his opinion,
largely due to the decadent state of the religious order and to some practices of the Catholic religion.
Hence the larger part of these novels is devoted to castigating dissedifying priests and to satirizing what he deemed to be supertitious observances and practices of the Church.”
Excerpts from Statement of the Philippine Hierarchy on the Novels of Dr. Jose Rizal Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo
“Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo must be read by all Filipinos. They must be taken to heart, for in their pages we see ourselves as in a mirror, our defects as well as our strength, our virtues as well as our vices. Only then would we become conscious as a people and so learn to prepare ourselves for painful sacrifices that ultimately lead to self-reliance, self-respect, and freedom.”
Senator Jose P. Laurel
“Rizal did not pretend to teach religion when he wrote those books. He aimed at inculcating civic consciousness in the Filipinos, national dignity, personal pride, and patriotism and if references were made by him in the course of his narration to certain religious practices in the Philippines in those days, and to the conduct and behavior of erring ministers of the church, it was because he portrayedmfaithfully the general situation in the Philippines as it then existed.”
Senator Claro M. Recto
