R.A.

1425

RIZAL LAW
"A NEED FOR A RE-DEDICATION TO
THE IDEALS OF FREEDOM AND
NATIONALISM FOR WHICH OUR
HEROES LIVED AND DIED."

CLARO M. RECTO
Main Author, Sponsor, and Defender of the Rizal Bill
 LITTLE BROWN
AMERICANS

The caption of the frontispiece to Worcester’s 1914 book reads:

“The Metamorphosis of a Bontoc Igorot. Two photographs of a Pit-a-pit, a
Bontoc Igorot boy. The second was taken nine years after the first.”
 History of Rizal Law
Senate Bill 438 known as Rizal Bill,
authored by Senator Claro M. Recto -
is considered as on of the most
controversial bill in the Philoippines.

Recto’s original bill made it

obligatory for college and university
students to study the life and works
of Rizal.
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History of Rizal Law
“The people would eliminate
the books of Rizal from the
schools and blot out from
our minds the memory of the
national hero. This is not a
fight against Recto but a
fight against Rizal.”
(Ocampo 2012, p 23)
 CHURCH ARGUE THAT AMONG
THE 333 PAGES OF NOLI ME
TANGERE,
ONLY 25 PASSAGES ARE
PATRIOTIC WHILE 120
PASSAGES ARE ANTI-CATHOLIC.
 Take this argument from Chapter 35 (Comments)
between Petra and an old man on which profession was
easier - medicine or the holy orders:

"It's all settled. Your godson is going

to be a doctor. Nothing like being a
doctor.“
"Doctor? Go on!
Nothing like being a priest!“

"Priest? Nonsense! A doctor makes a

lot of money and his patients treat
him, too like a saint.“
"Please! All the priest has to do is turn around three
or four times and say dominos pabiscum, and he
eats God and gets paid for it. All of us, even the
women, tell him our secrets.“

"And the doctor? What do you think of the

doctors? The doctor sees everything you
women have; he can hold hands with young "And the priest! Doesn't the priest see everything
girls. I'd like to be a doctor, just for a week!“ the doctors see? Even more! You know the saying,
"Plump hen and woman fair are priestly fare."
 Chapter 23: Fishing
The poor parishioners endure another long fire-and-
brimstone seron during Sunday mass:

"...You will die unrepentant and unshriven ye race of heretics! Already God is punishing you
on this earth in dungeons and prisons... Jesus said: If a member of your body leads you to sin,
cut it off and throw it into the fire..."

Father Damaso was nervous; he had forgotten his sermon and his rhetoric.
"Did you hear that?" A student from Manila asked his companion.

We'll, are you going to cut it off?

Fat chance. Let him do it first!

Republic Act
known as Rizal Law
An Act to Include in the Curricula of All
Public and Private Schools, Colleges and

No. 1425
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 Other Purposes
 SECTION 1
Courses on the life, works and writings of Jose Rizal, particularly
his NOVELS, shall be included in the curricula of all schools,
colleges and universities, public or private; Provided that in the
collegiate courses, the original or unexpurgated editions or
their English translations shall be used as basic texts.

EXEMPTION from READING THE NOVELS, based on RELIGIOUS BELIEF is

AVAILABLE, but NOT FROM THE COURSE.
 SECTION 2
It shall be obligatory on all schools, colleges and universities to
keep in their libraries an adequate number of copies of the
original and unexpurgated editions of the Noli Me Tangere and
El Filibusterismo, as well as of Rizal's other works and
biography.
 SECTION 3
The Board of National Education shall cause the translation of
the Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo, as well as other
writings of Jose Rizal into English, Tagalog and the principal
Philippine dialects; cause them to be printed in cheap, popular
editions; and cause them to be distributed, free of charge, to
persons desiring to read them, through the Purok organizations
and Barrio Councils throughout the country.
 MEMORANDUM ORDER NO. 247 OF 1994,
DIRECTING THE SECRETARY OF EDUCATION, CULTURE
AND SPORTS AND THE CHAIRMAN OF THE
COMMISSION ON HIGHER EDUCATION TO FULLY
IMPLEMENT REPUBLIC ACT NO. 1425.
ACTIVITY #1: TELL ME YOU'RE FILIPINO WITHOUT TELLING THAT
YOU'RE A FILIPINO
(TIKTOK CHALLENGE)
1. Make a less than 1-minute video about the topic.
2. Submit your video on the google drive provided.
3. Deadline of Submission: September 6, 2023