For the past few months, I’ve been encountering, understanding, and learning about the life and works of Jose Rizal. Aside from reading Rizal’s compositions, based on the Rizal Law, the students enrolled in this course, PI 100, are also expected to “develop moral character, personal discipline, and civic conscience.” Looking back, I can wholeheartedly say that due to the readings and lectures the class had during this semester, I was able to appreciate and comprehend the ideas and views of Rizal. Moreover, through this course, Jose Rizal was depicted as another human being with powerful thoughts. Although he was still portrayed as an extraordinary and phenomenal individual, the lectures paved way for the students, including myself, to recognize
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I believe that Rizal is still greatly relevant. While reading Twitter or Facebook wars regarding the current state of our country, it is quite usual for people to quote lines from Rizal’s works or Rizal himself in order to validate or support their claims or opinions. Moreover, since not much has changed over the past centuries and seeing that our fellowmen still don’t learn from the mistakes of the past, Jose Rizal’s thoughts and ideas regarding our nation is still highly applicable. During the class discussions, I was quite perturbed and shocked to learn that Rizal’s ideas are still highly relevant in today’s society—that we are still slaves of today’s tyrants and how we still lack the concept of “sufrir y trabajar.” From all the aforementioned points, my professor pointed out that Rizal’s ideas may either be truly timeless or country we are living in just have not progressed ever since Rizal’s era. Hearing the aforementioned sentiments was truly mind-boggling. Nonetheless, whether it may be due to Rizal’s ageless opinions or due to our nation’s regression, one thing is for sure, Rizal is still profoundly relevant in today’s …show more content…
One benefit may be learning and understanding the country’s national hero and realize why he earned the said title. By learning all these, we are also able to learn the sacrifices and hardships our fellow Filipinos had to endure during the Spanish colonization. Moreover, while studying Rizal’s life and compositions, the readers obtain greater knowledge on that certain part of the country’s history. Studying Rizal’s life and works can also help us understand the causes of modern political and social problems and why they are still present and why it never really went away. By reading and understanding Rizal’s works, we may be able to find concrete solutions to alleviate our county’s illness. In addition to that, by perusing it, we are able to view Rizal as someone more human, someone who experienced some events that ordinary people also experience. Besides the previously stated benefits, learning about Rizal’s life and works can also prompt the citizens to be more appreciative of Rizal and his peers, who they fought for the freedom of the country, fought for the common good. We are able to comprehend how they struggled in order to liberate our country from the colonizers. In effect, Filipinos can be more thankful for the sacrifices that they did just so the Philippines and its inhabitants could be liberated. From learning all these, we can be more grateful and more respectful towards the
I believe that Rizal is still greatly relevant. While reading Twitter or Facebook wars regarding the current state of our country, it is quite usual for people to quote lines from Rizal’s works or Rizal himself in order to validate or support their claims or opinions. Moreover, since not much has changed over the past centuries and seeing that our fellowmen still don’t learn from the mistakes of the past, Jose Rizal’s thoughts and ideas regarding our nation is still highly applicable. During the class discussions, I was quite perturbed and shocked to learn that Rizal’s ideas are still highly relevant in today’s society—that we are still slaves of today’s tyrants and how we still lack the concept of “sufrir y trabajar.” From all the aforementioned points, my professor pointed out that Rizal’s ideas may either be truly timeless or country we are living in just have not progressed ever since Rizal’s era. Hearing the aforementioned sentiments was truly mind-boggling. Nonetheless, whether it may be due to Rizal’s ageless opinions or due to our nation’s regression, one thing is for sure, Rizal is still profoundly relevant in today’s …show more content…
One benefit may be learning and understanding the country’s national hero and realize why he earned the said title. By learning all these, we are also able to learn the sacrifices and hardships our fellow Filipinos had to endure during the Spanish colonization. Moreover, while studying Rizal’s life and compositions, the readers obtain greater knowledge on that certain part of the country’s history. Studying Rizal’s life and works can also help us understand the causes of modern political and social problems and why they are still present and why it never really went away. By reading and understanding Rizal’s works, we may be able to find concrete solutions to alleviate our county’s illness. In addition to that, by perusing it, we are able to view Rizal as someone more human, someone who experienced some events that ordinary people also experience. Besides the previously stated benefits, learning about Rizal’s life and works can also prompt the citizens to be more appreciative of Rizal and his peers, who they fought for the freedom of the country, fought for the common good. We are able to comprehend how they struggled in order to liberate our country from the colonizers. In effect, Filipinos can be more thankful for the sacrifices that they did just so the Philippines and its inhabitants could be liberated. From learning all these, we can be more grateful and more respectful towards the