Learning Module for College A.Y.
2021-2022 RIZAL’S LIFE AND
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1st Semester of Academic Year 2021-2022
Module 2-Week 3
TOPIC: DR. JOSE P. RIZAL WAS CHOSEN AS THE GREATEST PHILIPPINE NATIONAL HERO
“I die, without seeing the Day dawning on my country… You will see it, greet it… and forget not those who fell during the
night…” -Dr. Jose P. Rizal
Learning Objectives:
a. Recognize the law provided for in the study of the life of our National Hero
b. Being able to have a glimpse of the past in the context by Dr. Jose P. Rizal.
c. Convey ideas through oral, audio-visual, and/or web-based presentations for the target audiences in local and global
settings;
d. Recreate in their young minds how a National Hero was born.
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A hero is a person admired for achievements and noble qualities and a prominent or central personage taking an
admirable action. Also, a person of distinguished valor or enterprise in danger and an individual honored after death by public
worship because of laudable and exceptional service to mankind.
The difference between HERO and MARTYR
HERO is a real person of great bravery who carries out extraordinary deeds
MARTYR is one who willingly accepts being put to death for adhering openly to one’s religious beliefs; notably saints
canonized after martyrdom.
Dr. Jose Protacio Rizal Mercado Y Alonso was a man of many talents. The Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo
provided the ember that awakened Filipino nationalism and paved the way for the Philippine Revolution of 1896. He proved that
the “Pen is Mightier than the Sword” to redeem a people from their political slavery.
The Americans, particularly Civil Governor William Howard Taft being the Chairman of the Philippine Commission
addressed Messrs. Pardo de Tavera, Legarda, Gregorio Araneta, Cayetano Arellano the choosing of the Philippine National hero.
Among the nominated names were Marcelo H. Del Pilar, Gen. Antonio Luna, Gregorio Lopez Jaena, Emilio Jacinto and Jose
Rizal.
Dr. Otley H. Bayer, an anthropologist and technical member of the panel of the Philippine Commission recommended
the following criteria in choosing the national hero.
1. The person must be a Filipino.
2. The person is a peace-loving and pacifist.
3. The person must have a great sense of patriotism.
4. The person must have died for the country as a martyr.
Reasons why Rizal was chosen and declared as the Philippine’s National Hero.
1. He was the first Filipino to unite and awaken the Filipino People to peacefully rise for independence.
2. He is a model for being a peacemaker by his complete self-denial, his complete abandonment of his personal interest and
to think only of his country and people.
3. He was a towering figure in the propaganda campaign from 1882-1896.
4. He was a martyr at Bagumbayan where he willingly died for our country.
OTHER COUNTRIES CHOOSE THEIR NATIONAL HERO
The heroes of occidental nations are warriors and generals who served their cause with the sword, distilling blood
and tears. The hero of the Filipinos served hos cause with the pen.
Other countries chose their national heroes who are soldier-generals, who fought for the country’s liberty and
independence in the battlefield with their mighty “sword”.
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Martin of Argentina, Jimmo Tenno of Japan and others.
In comparison, Jose Rizal, the Philippine national hero was a pacifist and a civilian who served his cause with the pen
through which his writings had awakened Filipino nationalism and paved the way for the Philippine Revolution.
What other great men said about the pen and sword. Napoleon I who was a great conqueror and ruler said, “There
are only two powers in the world, the sword and pen; and in the end the former is always conquered by the latter.”
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Sir Thomas Browne said, “Scholars are men of Peace; they bear no arms, but their tongues are sharper than the sword.
2Their pens carry further and give a louder report than thunder. I rather stand in the shock of a basilisk than in the fury of a
merciless pen”.
What is the most admirable in Rizal according to Rafael Palma:
“Is his complete self-denial, his complete abandonment of his personal interest in order to think only of those of his
country. He could have been whatever he wished to be, considering his natural endowments, he could have earned considerable
sum of money from his profession, he could have lived relatively rich, happy, prosperous, had he not dedicated himself to public
matters. He preferred to live far from his family and to sacrifice his personal affection for an ideal he had dreamed of following
his conscience. He did not have great means at his disposal to carry out his campaign; he contented himself with what he had. He
suffered the cold winter of Europe, hunger, privation and misery but when he raised his eyes to heaven and saw his ideals, his
hope was reborn, he soon felt, comforted and resumed the task bearing the cross of his suffering”.
HONORS ACCORDED TO RIZAL AS THE PHILIPPINE NATIONAL HERO
1. The days of his birth and day of his execution are fittingly commemorated by all classes of people throughout the
country and other Filipinos abroad.
2. No other Filipino hero can surpass Rizal in the number of monuments erected in his honor, in towns, barrios, and
schools.
3. His name is a by—word in every home and his picture is printed and used in postage stamps.
4. The paper money/coins with his image have the widest circulation that the poorest of the poor can take hold.
5. Streets, boulevards, educational institutions and persons were name ‘Rizal’.
6. His noble thoughts and teachings had been frequently invoked and quoted by speakers.
7. The union of Manila and Morong to be a province was named after the illustrious Filipino hero thus the Rizal province
was established.
Reference:
Life and Works of Dr. Jose P. Rizal (Michael C. Pangilinan……. [Link].,)
QUIZ 1 (Write your answers in ½ Lengthwise paper, including your Complete Name, Subject and Course/Year)
I. Direction: Identify the following statements correctly by writing the answer in ½ lengthwise paper.
1. An anthropologist who recommended the criteria in choosing the Philippine National Hero to the technical members of
the Philippine Commission.
2. The two powerful novels of Dr. Jose Rizal that awakened Filipino nationalism and paved the way for the Philippine
Revolution.
3. The Philippine National Hero and considered as pacifist and a civilian who served his cause with the pen which his
writings had awakened Filipino nationalism and paved the way for the Philippine Revolution.
4. The great man and leader who mentioned that, “Scholars are men of Peace; they bear no arms, but their tongues are
sharper than sword. Their pens carry further and giver a louder report than thunder”.
5. The Spanish colonizer who imposed and established the first Spanish settlement in 1565 in Cebu.
II. Direction: Answer the question below. (5 Points)
Explain the reasons why Dr. Jose Rizal was chosen and declared as the Philippine National Hero.
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