Life, Works, and Writings of Dr.

Jose Rizal

John Patrick Habacon

Instructor, College of Arts and Sciences
 What is a Hero?
a person who is admired for great or brave acts or
fine qualities Merriam Webster
A hero works beyond the scope of his or her
jobresponds to a social need, or the needs of a
person or groupmoves out of her comfort zone
(i.e., doing something he/she has no experience
with), and may even put his or her life on the line
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 The Foremost National Hero
He was an
ophthalmologist, sculptor, painter,
educator, farmer, historian,
playwright, businessman, and
journalist. Besides poetry
and creative writing, he dabbled
in architecture, cartography,
economics, ethnology,
engineering, anthropology, sociology
, philosophy, dramatics, martial
arts, fencing and pistol shooting
 The Foremost National Hero
The First Filipino
"Greatest Man of the Brown Race
One of Asia's first intellectuals
Sublimation of Christ or the Tagalog Christ
 Republic Act 1425
Otherwise known as the Rizal Law
It is signed into a law on June 12, 1956 and was first
implemented on August 16, 1956 by the Board of
National Education
An act to include in the curricula of all public and private
schools, colleges and universities courses on the life,
works and writings of Jose Rizal, particularly his
novels Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo,
authorizing the printing and distribution thereof, and for
other purposes
 Republic Act 1425
Senator Claro M. Recto authored the Rizal
Bill while Senator Jose P. Laurel, Sr., who
was then the Chairman of the Committee
on Education, sponsored the bill in the
Senate.
They endeavored to rekindle a lost spark
in each Filipinos belief in their country.
 Purpose of the bill

The teaching of the Rizal course in the

classroom is intended to awaken the
sense of patriotism and nationalism in
every Filipino youth and push them to
apply the principles bequeathed by
Rizal as solutions to present day
problems.
 Original Bill
Noli and Fili as compulsory reading

Emphasis on original editions or

unexpurgated English and national
language versions

Punishments: dismissal, disqualification

and withdrawal of permits
 Anti Rizal Bill
The bill would violate freedom of
conscience and religion. In particular, it is
an attempt to discredit the Catholic religion

According to the CBCP, Rizal violated the

Churchs laws specifically Canon Law 1399,
which forbids books that attack or ridicule
any of the catholic dogmas or which defend
errors condemned by the Holy See
 Among the 333 pages of Noli Me Tangere,
only 25 passages are patriotic while 120
passages are Anti-Catholic. Rizal admitted
before that in these passages he did not
only attack the friars that acted falsely on
the Filipinos but also attacked the Catholic
Faith itself.
 Final version of the bill
In this bill Senator Laurel included other
books, poems, and other works written by
Rizal and works written by other authors
about Rizal
The reading of the unexpurgated version
of the novels would no longer be
compulsory to elementary and secondary
levels, but should be read strictly in the
original and unexpurgated form in the
college level