To Young Women Of Malolos

• To the young women of Malolos
• What are the women of Malolos?


  A group of young women in Malolos, Bulacan participated in a peaceful movement for educational reforms
• The efforts of the women of Malolos became the bedrock of what?


  The feminist movement in the Philippines
• The group of women from Malolos handed a letter of petition to who?

  Governor General Valeriano Weyler
• How did the Women of Malolos came to be?

  The group of women from Malolos handed a letter of petition as a form of peaceful movement for educational reforms for women
• The women were members of the four major Sangley clans in Malolos:


  Tiongsons, Tantotocos, Reyeses, and Santoses
• What was the educational system in the Spanish period like?

  • Prior to 1863, education was left entirely in the hands of the friars.
  • Education was more focused on religion.
  • There was educational discrimination.
• According to what decree made it compulsory for education to be applied to Filipinos?

  Royal Decree of 1863
• Royal Decree of 1863

  • Compulsory primary instruction to all native and Chinese children, between the ages 7-12.
  • Primary schools for boys and girls for each town.
  • Friar interventions
• Who is Teodoro Sandiko?

  He supported women's education and promoted liberal ideas
• What was Teodoro Sandiko accused of?

  He was accused of being a filibuster and a subversive
• Who's house did the women of Malolos receive their education in?

  Rufina Reyes
• When did the letter of the women of Malolos to receive education had been approved?

  February 1889
• What were the conditions that the women of Malolos needed to follow for their education approval?

  • They would finance the schooling
  • The teacher would be Guadalupe Reyes
  • Classes would be held in daytime
• Why was one of the conditions for the women of Malolos being "classes would be held in daytime"?

  The Spaniards were afraid that the women would form a revolution at night
• Why did the women of Malolos stop their education?

  Teodoro Sandiko was accused by the church authorities of spreading teachings against morality and eating meat during days of abstinence on the Holy Week of 1889
• How long did the school operate?

  The school operated for three months
• Who requested Rizal to write to the women of Malolos?

  Upon the request of M.H. Del Pilar, Rizal wrote a letter in Tagalog for the women of Malolos
• Who praised the women of Malolos for their courage in a column in Ecos de Ultramar?

  Gracia Lopez Jaena