The Life and Works of Jose Rizal (Module 1)

Question 1

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.

Answer 1

R.A. 1425

Question 2

He authored the bill on the study of the life and
writings of Rizal

Answer 2

Claro M. Recto

Question 3

(DATE) Senate Bill No. 438 was filed by the Senate Committee on Education

Answer 3

April 3, 1956

Question 4

(DATE) Senate Committee on Education Chair Jose P. Laurel sponsored the bill and began delivering speeches for the proposed legislation

Answer 4

April 17, 1956

Question 5

(DATE) House Bill No. 5561, an identical version of S.B.
438, was filed by Representative Jacob Z.
Gonzales

Answer 5

April 19, 1956

Question 6

(DATE) Debates started

Answer 6

April 23, 1956

Question 7

(DATE) The House Committee on Education approved the bill without amendments

Answer 7

May 2, 1956

Question 8

(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.

Answer 8

May 9, 1956

Question 9

(DATE) Similar amendments were adopted to the House version

Answer 9

May 14, 1956

Question 10

(DATE) The Senate and House versions were approved

Answer 10

May 17, 1956

Question 11

(DATE) The approved versions were then transmitted to
Malacañang and on _______________, President
Magsaysay signed the bill into law which became
Republic Act No. 1425

Answer 11

June 12, 1956

Question 12

Issued by President Fidel Ramos, it directed the DECS and CHED to immediately and fully implement R.A. 1425 on December 26, 1994

Answer 12

Presidential Memorandum Order 247

Question 13

It required colleges and universities to
comply with R.A. 1425, was signed by Commissioner Mona Dumlao Valisno on January 13, 1995

Answer 13

CHED Memo 03, Series of 1995

Question 14

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

Answer 14

CHED Memo 04, Series of 1996

Question 15

(DATE) Presidential Memorandum Order 247

Answer 15

December 26, 1994

Question 16

(DATE) CHED Memo 03, Series of 1995

Answer 16

January 13, 1995

Question 17

(DATE) CHED Memo 04, Series of 1996

Answer 17

January 26, 1996

Question 18

“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.”

Answer 18

Senator Francisco “Soc” Rodrigo

Question 19

“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.”

Answer 19

Excerpts from Statement of the Philippine Hierarchy on the Novels of Dr. Jose Rizal Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo

Question 20

“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.”

Answer 20

Senator Jose P. Laurel

Question 21

“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.”

Answer 21

Senator Claro M. Recto