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

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

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

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

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.

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?