Ambeth R. Ocampo Quotes
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.
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.
Sometimes it pays not to be interested in what happened but in what did not happen.
I guess if you go around with famous people you are assured of some reflected (or deflected) glory.
Can you imagine the feeling of being an oppressed colonial being addressed respectfully by a colonizer in the mother country?