Name: Alyssa Dominique C.

Valdevieso
Name of Professor: Mrs. Golda S. Sierra Date: September 30, 2022
Course/Year: BSCE – 4C Score:

Activity 1
Abstraction
By answering the following guide question, write a reflection paper on Rizal
insistence on education as an essential ingredient in the task of nation-building.

On the education of the masses, Rizal pleaded for the knowledge of the adults.
Rizal embarked through Isagani:

“We cannot all be doctors, it is necessary that some of us cultivate the soil.
We must follow everyone’s inclination.”

Mass education is, therefore a must in a free society. Rizal certainly expressed
this idea in the Noli when he said:

“The school is the basis of society, the school is the book in which is
written the future of the nation! Show us the school of the people, and we
shall show you what the people are.”

What do you think is the youth’s role in shaping our future?

I believe the youth is the embodiment of generations past. The youth is one
of society's main agents of change and progress. Youth have a role to renew and
refresh the current status of our society including leadership, innovations, skills
etc. Youth are expected to advance the current technology, education, politics,
peace of the country. Young people have the ideas, the creativity and great energy
to shape a better world, as the youth have the up-to-date ideas regarding
technology, as well as societal answers that would someday be of use to future
youth as well. .

Name: Alyssa Dominique C. Valdevieso

 Name of Professor: Mrs. Golda S. Sierra Date: September 30, 2022
Course/Year: BSCE – 4C Score:

Self-Assessment
A. Identification: Write on the blank the best answer on the given statement.

Senate Bill 438 1. Otherwise known as Rizal Bill which was first
sponsored by Senator Claro M. Recto-stating the inclusion of the life, works and
writings of Jose Rizal in the curricula of all public and private schools in the tertiary
level.
Senator Claro M. Recto 2. The main proponent of the Rizal Bill-was even dubbed as
a communist and an anti-Catholic.
SMART 3. Specific, measurable, attainable, realistic and time-
bound.
Rizal Law 4. It mandates the studying of Rizal’s life and works, as stated in
section 1.
June 12, 1956 _______ 5. The date when the said Republic Act was signed by
President Magsaysay.
________ Canon Law 1244_____________ 6. According to The Catholic Bishops
Conference of the Philippines (CBCP), Rizal violated this law on which they submitted
a pastoral letter which forbids or bans books that attack or ridicule the Catholic doctrine
and practices.
_________Rizalian anthology____________ 7. The suggested reading material for students
with a collection of Rizal’s literary works that contain the patriotic philosophy
excluding the two novels.
____ Senator Lim_____________ 8. He suggested the exemption to those students
who feel that reading Rizal’s novels would negatively affect his or her faith.
__________Jose P. Laurel____________ 9. The senator who co-wrote the Rizal law. He
believed that Rizal was the founder of the country’s nationalism and had significantly
contributed to the current condition of the nation.
__________ __RA 229________________ 10. And act that prohibits horse racing, jai-alai,
and cockfighting, every thirtieth day of December. The act also created a committee to
be in charge Rizal day celebration in every chartered city and municipality.
_____William Howard Taft____________ 11. He proposed Rizal as our National hero in
1901.
______ Jose Rizal_____________ 12.The first exponent of nationalism in Asian and a
source of inspiration for the outbreak of the Philippine Revolution of 1896 According to
De Ocampo.
___________Nationalism__________________ 13. It is a desire for political independence
and attainment of freedom.
__________Critical thinking_______________14. Refers to discerning, evaluative and
analytic thinking.
________ Alejandro Roces______________ 15. The person who retrieved the stolen
original manuscripts of Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo without paying a single
centavo as ransom.

B. Prove or contradict the following statements.

1-5 Rizal was the First Filipino.

Jose Rizal is commonly known as the “Father of Filipino Nationalism” and

the “First Filipino”, not because he helped establish an independent Philippine
state, but because he was instrumental in the creation of the conceptualization of
“Filipino” as an ethnic collective – as “a people”, or, in the language of
nationalism “the people”. In other words, Rizal is acclaimed the father “Philippine
Nationalism” for his intellectual and idealistic support for Philippine
Independence. .

6-10 Rizal was an American-sponsored hero.

Yes, I consider Rizal to be an American sponsored hero. He was endorsed by

Taft as the country’s national hero but the motive behind that was to gain the
Filipinos’ support and to cease their resistance in their pursuits in influencing and
colonizing. Putting a Filipino person on a pedestal implies that they hold our race,
our nationality in great regard. .