[EDUCATION AS REVOLUTION]
In Memorias de un Estidiante de Manila, he used the fire to symbolize education was understable since during the 1860's anf the 1870's.
Tagging intellectuals as detabilizers continues through the 1880's and 1890's especially during the height of the propaganda movement in Europe.
In El Filibusterismo, Rizal continues this symbolism of education as fire.
[Note: Please po, pakigawan nga po ng Tagalog explanation. Hindi po siya i-t-translate sa Tagalog, kundi gagawan po ng Explanation in Tagalog. Thank you in advance. Auto report kapag nagsagot lang ng nonsense for points.]
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So I tried to make study pleasant and good-humored; I wanted to make the primer not a black book bathed in the tears of childhood, but a friendly guide to the marvelous; I wanted to make the school not a torture-chamber but a playground of the mind. I replaced the [rod and whip] with the spurs of competition and self-esteem. If a child did not learn his lesson, I blamed it on his lack of self-effort, never on his lack of brains. I