Activity 1.

1
Research on what Teodoro Agoncillo, Reynaldo Illeto and Renato Constantino
said about history. Do you agree with them? Show your answer through Venn
diagram.

Teodoro Agoncillo
-History deals with the past, not with the future. We use history to avoid the
mistakes of the past, not to recreate the very same events. You cannot.
-History is written by every generation. Every generation writes its own history
using the same sources. The interpretations vary according to time.
-History is re-creation while literature is creation.
-History is both a humanities and social science; “the historian uses the scientific
method in investigating his materials, he uses the methods known to the
humanist in breathing life into the past”

Renato Constantino
- “History is the recorded struggle of people for ever increasing freedom and for
newer and higher realizations of the human person. But the struggle is a
collective one and as such involves the mass of human beings who are therefore
the motivators of change and of history.”

Reynaldo Illeto
- History is not just about the perspectives of the “winners.” History takes the
importance of the common man or the “masses” into account. “
-“Philippine history must be rewritten from the point of view of the Filipino. Our
economic problems must be presented in the light of nationalism and
independence.”