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.

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

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

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.

As you can see, there are quite a number of things taught in school that one has to unlearn or at least correct.

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