It is ironic that many Filipinos learn to love the Philippines while abroad, not at home.

Rizal learned the right ideas at the wrong time, and for this he was shot.

A historian can never claim to have the last word on anything as he is limited by his sources and further so by his viewpoint.

Who says history is stagnant? For a historian, facts do not change; it is the way we look at things, our interpretations, that are always changing. This is what makes history exciting - that we can always find something new in what is old.

It is ironic that many Filipinos learn to love the Philippines while abroad, not at home.

Sometimes it pays not to be interested in what happened but in what did not happen.

School made us 'literate' but did not teach us to read for pleasure.