Advance REVIEWER

• Rizal's last letter was written on December 29, 1896.
• Jose Rizal's life and works are studied as a historical figure and his works are critically analyzed.
• Republic Act 1425 mandates all educational institutions in the Philippines to offer courses about Jose Rizal.
• Senator Claro M. Recto is the main proponent of the Rizal Law.
• The teaching of Jose Rizal's life, works, and writings is mandated by Republic Act 1425, also known as the Rizal Law.
• Senator Jose P. Laurel stated that since Rizal was the founder of Philippine nationalism and has contributed much to the current standing of this nation, it is only right that the youth as well as all the people in the country know about and learn to imbibe the great ideals for which he died.
• Domingo Lam-co, Jose Rizal's grandfather, was a full-blooded Chinese who migrated to the Philippines from Amoy, China in the late 17th Century.
• Jose Rizal's determination to excel in as many fields as possible was to show the world that he was capable, that he was as tall as the next man.
• Jose Rizal lacked in physique but excelled in many fields such as science, art, literature, among many others.
• Jose Rizal's genealogy and early education are discussed in Lesson 2.
• Jose Rizal's dynamism was what made him a jack of many talents, and a master of many trades.
• Jose Rizal's father's family began in the Philippines with a Chinaman, according to Austin Craig.
• Francisco Mercado y Chino, son of a prosperous landowner, sugar, and rice planter, of Chinese-Filipino descent, owed his surname to the Chinese custom of looking for the appropriate meaning.
• Jose Rizal proved that he was very much taller by rising above himself.
• The name Francisco, held in high honor in Laguna for it had belonged to a famous sea captain who had been given the Enconmenda of Bay for his services and had won the regard of those who paid tribute to him because of his fairness and interest in their welfare, was given to Jose Rizal's father in memory of his grandfather.
• Ines de la Rosa, Lam-Co's wife, has traces of Japanese, Spanish, Malay and some Negro ancestry.
• Domingo Lam-co, after migrating to Manila, became friends with two well-known Dominican friars, a friendship that changed his career and materially affected the fortunes of his descendants.
• The Mercado clan, including Jose Rizal's father, were descendants of a Chinese-Filipino landowner, sugar, and rice planter.
• The Rizal Law, enacted in 1956, seeks to accomplish the following goals: to rededicate the lives of youth to the ideals of freedom and nationalism, for which our heroes lived and died; to pay tribute to our national hero for devoting his life and works in shaping the Filipino character; to gain an inspiring source of patriotism through the study of Rizal’s life, works, and writings; to recognize the importance of Rizal’s ideals and teachings in relation to present conditions and situations in the society; to encourage the application of such ideals in current social and personal problems and
• Reverence without understanding is for deities, not flesh and blood heroes like Rizal.
• Hero-worship must be both historical-critical.
• Rizal validated all his social and civic virtues, embodied in his noblest aspirations for his country and people, by consciously and clear-headedly accepting the ultimate sacrifice of death in the tragic field of Bagumbayan, now called as the Luneta, on December 30, 1886.
• Rizal suffered as much as his countrymen.
• Rizal was the spark that gave birth to Philippine pride for one’s country and people.
• Rizal became interested in bodybuilding and athletics, but his feelings of inferiority had made an indelible mark on his soul.
• Rizal's virtues of character include honesty, personal integrity, patriotism, civic responsibility, willingness to sacrifice, high sense of justice, and family solidarity.
• Rizal was a man of peace with a vision.
• Rizal was a man of virtues of character which exemplify honesty, personal integrity, patriotism, and civic responsibility.
• Rizal stands among those few that are companion to no particular epoch or continent, who belong to the world, and whose lives have a universal message.
• Rizal shouldered his political burden solely in the cause of duty, a circumstance rendering him one of those figures rare in human affairs, a revolutionary without hatred, and a leader without worldly ambition.
• Rizal's true inclination lay in his works in science, history, and literature, and his profession as an ophthalmic surgeon, which shared a single, identical aim - to shed illumination and give sight to the blind.
• Rizal wanted for his people that they educate themselves so that they could stand as free men and face the world with head held high.
• Rizal was greatly aggrieved by his physique when he was young and often described as a very tiny child with a disproportionately big head that he carried even in his adulthood.
• Rizal was forever haunted by a sense of inadequacy which explains his inability to sustain relationships with women and great dread for responsibility.
• Sa Aking Mga Kabata, a poem written by Rizal when he was eight, nurtured him to have a deep affection of the very concept of the Philippines - a distinct national identity.
• Rizal was capable of unraveling the myths that were woven by the oppressors of his time, but he would have been at a loss to see through the more sophisticated myths and recognize the subtle techniques of present-day colonialist, given the state of his knowledge and experience at that time.
• Many of Rizal's social criticisms are still valid today because certain aspects of our life are still carry-over of the feudal and colonial society of his time.
• To be able to appreciate a hero for that matter, we must be able to learn more about him – not merely his acts but the thoughts behind his acts, his reasons, the situation he found himself in as well as his motivations.
• Trinidad Rizal, the tenth child, died a spinster and was the last of the family to die.
• Jose Rizal had his early education in Calamba and Biñan, receiving a typical schooling that a son of an ilustrado family received during his time, characterized by the four R’s - reading, writing, arithmetic, and religion.