The KKK and the “Kartilya ng

Katipunan

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 Learning outcomes
• Examine the context and perspective of the
document
• Determine the main teachings and guiding
principles of the Kartilya
• Recognize the importance of the Kartilya to
the past and today’s society.
• Video clip:
• Kartilya ng Katipunan
• The Kataastaasan, Kagalanggalangang
Katipunan ng mga Anak ng Bayan (KKK) or
Katipunan is arguably the most important
organization formed in the Philippine history.
• The two principal aims of the KKK as gathered
from the writings of Bonifacio:
1. Unity of the Filipino people
2. Separation from Spain by means of a
revolution
• Bonifacio came out after the
failure of the reform movement
headed by Rizal and M. Del Pilar.
This paved way for a more
radical and more active lines. He
formed the Katipunan, a secret
society which was founded at
Tondo Manila, in a house on
Azcarraga Street then numbered
314, on July 7, 1892, the same
date on which Rizal was decreed
to be banished to Dapitan.
• Rizal doubtless approved the first aim but
refused to accept the second and this was the
reason that he refused to go along with the
“Katipuneros” (soldiers’ of the Katipunan) and
voluntarily surrendered that leads him to prison
and death. – To achieve unity of the Filipinos,
propaganda work must be done and this was
through massive education and civic trainings of
the Katipuneros. To that end, Bonifacio prepared
his now well-known decalogue, and Jacinto his
famous “Kartilya ng Katipunan” (Primer of the
Katipunan)
About the author
• "Utak ng Katipunan"
• His wife is Catalina de Jesus
• He was born at Tondo,Maynila
• His father is Mariano Jacinto and
her mother is Josefa Dizon
• Born on: 15 Disyembre 1875
• Death: 6 Abril 1899 (age 23) Sta.
Cruz, Laguna
• Cause of Death: Malaria
• Pen name: "Pingkian“
• He attended San Juan de Letran
College, and later transferred to
the University of Santo Tomas to
study law.
• At the age of 18, joined the
secret society called
Katipunan in 1894
• He became the advisor fiscal
matters and secretary to
Andres Bonifacion. He was
later known as Utak ng
Katipunan
• Wrote for the Katipunan
newspaper called Kalayaan
and used his pen name
“Dimas Ilaw”
• Bonifacio and others
officially "founded" the
Katipunan, or in full,
Kataastaasang
Kagalanggalangan Katipunan
ng mga Anak ng Bayan
• He wrote the Sampung Utos
ng mga Anak ng Bayan and
later on he adopted Emilio
Jaconto's Kartilya ng
Katipunan as the teachings
of the Katipunan.
• Pen names: Supremo,
Anak Bayan, Agapito
Bagumbayan
• He is known as the "Ama
ng Himagsikang
Pilipino", "Ang Dakilang
Maralita" and "Ama ng
Katipunan"
• Date of birth 30
November 1863 at
Tondo, Maynila
• Death: 10 Mayo 1897
Maragondon, Kabite
• These are the rules in Kartilya. The Kartilya can
be treated as the Katipunan’s Code of conduct
which contains 14 rules that instruct the way a
Katipunero should behave.
 Below is a translated version of the
rules on Kartilya
• 1. The life that is not consecrated to a lofty and
reasonable purpose is a tree without a shade, if not a
poisonous weed.
• 2. To do good for personal gain and not for its own sake
is not virtue.
• 3. It is rational to be charitable and love one's fellow
creature, and to adjust one's conduct, acts and words
to what is in itself reasonable.
• 4. Whether our skin be black or white, we are all born
equal: superiority in knowledge, wealth and beauty are
to be understood, but not superiority by nature.
• 5. The honorable man prefers honor to
personal gain; the scoundrel, gain to honor.
• 6. To the honorable man, his word is sacred.
• 7. Do not waste thy time: wealth can be
recovered but not time lost.
• 8. Defend the oppressed and fight the
oppressor before the law or in the field.
• 9. The prudent man is sparing in words and
faithful in keeping secrets.
• 10. On the thorny path of life, man is the guide of
woman and the children, and if the guide leads to the
precipice, those whom he guides will also go there.
• 11. Thou must not look upon woman as a mere
plaything, but as a faithful companion who will share
with thee the penalties of life; her (physical) weakness
will increase thy interest in her and she will remind
thee of the mother who bore thee and reared thee.
• 12. What thou dost not desire done unto thy wife,
children, brothers and sisters, that do not unto the
wife, children, brothers and sisters of thy neighbor.
• 13. Man is not worth more because he is a king,
because his nose is aquiline, and his color white,
not because he is a *priest, a servant of god, nor
because of the high prerogative that he enjoys
upon earth, but he is worth most who is a man of
proven and real value, who does good, keeps his
words, is worthy and honest; he who does not
oppress nor consent to being oppressed, he who
loves and cherishes his fatherland, though he be
born in the wilderness and know no tongue but
his own.
• 14. When these rules of conduct shall be known
to all, the longed-for sun of liberty shall rise
brilliant over this most unhappy portion of the
globe and its rays shall diffuse everlasting joy
among the confederated brethren of the same
rays, the lives of those who have gone before, the
fatigues and the well-paid sufferings will remain.
If he who desires to enter (the katipunan) has
informed himself of all this and believes he will
be able to perform what will be his duties, he
may fill out
 Relevance
• It established not only the rules for the
members of the organization but the
principles for the citizens of a nation once
independence had been achieved. Though
written in the 19t century, the Kartilya is
significant to the lives of modern Filipinos as it
reads like a simple creed fro living in the light
of the many changes occuring at present
 Activity 1

• Quiz

Activity 2
• Rewrite a portion or a condense version of the
Kartilya ng Katipunan in a way that it can
encourage millennials like your to read and
practice its teachings. Post it on your
Facebook account and se how your friends will
respond to it.