[RIZAL AND EDUCATION]
Finally, Rizal viewed education as something revolutionary not in a subversive and violent sense, but in freeing the mind from the darkness and bonds of ignorance. A free mind however must be aware of the different issues of his or her society. He or she must be actively engaged in trying to change society for the better.
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Jose Rizal, Father of the Filipino people, in his Noli Me Tangere (1887) in chapter 19, “Adventures of a Schoolmaster,” described the Spanish days of education as “working to turn my boys into parrots so that they will know by rote so many things about which they do not understand a single word: (p.103). From time immemorial the rod had been the characteristic of the school… I had been made to believe that it was the only efficient way of compelling study.”
Jose Rizal wanted a changed philosophy when he states, “Now I cam to think that, far from helping the child to progress, [the rod] held him back considerably. I was convinced that it was impossible to think in the face of rod and whip; apprehension, fear, upset even the most self-possessed; a child’s imagination is all the more impressionable because it is more lively