Rizal and the Ilustrados

of Spain
Jose Rizal, Mariano Ponce and Graciano Lopez-Jaena worked hard to correct
the racist images drawn by Spaniards writer about the Filipinos.

Rizal wrote a letter Mariano Ponce the editorial staff of la solaridad April 18,
1889 regarding the execution of the GomBurZa 1872.

The prolonged colonization of Spain gave birth to a backward society

education become weak and stagnant.
Another obstacle to the progress of knowledge of education was the
Comisión permante de censura ( Permanent Censors of Commission) which
was established on October 7, 1856 that all printing materials from magazine
to newspapers were subjected to be scrunity of the censors.

Censorship inflicted great damage into intellectual freedom of writers, the

Filipino ilustrados to have it abolished.