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.

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

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

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

I guess if you go around with famous people you are assured of some reflected (or deflected) glory.

Filipinos are not a reading people, and despite the compulsory course on the life and works of Rizal today, from the elementary to the university levels, it is accepted that the 'Noli me Tangere' and 'El Filibusterismo' are highly regarded but seldom read (if not totally ignored). Therefore one asks, how can unread novels exert any influence?