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Rizal Without the Overcoat: Expanded Edition QUOTES

Rizal Without the Overcoat: Expanded Edition QUOTES

1 " As you can see, there are quite a number of things taught in school that one has to unlearn or at least correct. "

― Ambeth R. Ocampo , Rizal Without the Overcoat: Expanded Edition

2 " Who says history is stagnant? For a historian, facts do not change; it is the way we look at things, our interpretations, that are always changing. This is what makes history exciting - that we can always find something new in what is old. "

― Ambeth R. Ocampo , Rizal Without the Overcoat: Expanded Edition

3 " Can you imagine the feeling of being an oppressed colonial being addressed respectfully by a colonizer in the mother country? "

― Ambeth R. Ocampo , Rizal Without the Overcoat: Expanded Edition

4 " Rizal learned the right ideas at the wrong time, and for this he was shot. "

― Ambeth R. Ocampo , Rizal Without the Overcoat: Expanded Edition

5 " Sometimes it pays not to be interested in what happened but in what did not happen. "

― Ambeth R. Ocampo , Rizal Without the Overcoat: Expanded Edition

6 " Filipinos are not a reading people, and despite the compulsory course on the life and works of Rizal today, from the elementary to the university levels, it is accepted that the 'Noli me Tangere' and 'El Filibusterismo' are highly regarded but seldom read (if not totally ignored). Therefore one asks, how can unread novels exert any influence? "

― Ambeth R. Ocampo , Rizal Without the Overcoat: Expanded Edition

7 " Rizal" is a compulsory course in school, but few teachers make Rizal's novels interesting. If students are taught to enjoy Rizal's works as literature instead of as a lodemine of 'patriotic' allusions I am sure they would not mind reading and rereading the 'Noli me Tangere'. "

― Ambeth R. Ocampo , Rizal Without the Overcoat: Expanded Edition

8 " I was to discover that like the overcoat that snugly wraps Rizal in all his statues and photographs, Rizal is obscured by countless myths and preconceived ideas... Without his overcoat, Rizal was human, like you and me. "

― Ambeth R. Ocampo , Rizal Without the Overcoat: Expanded Edition

9 " Doreen Fernandez' foreword to "Rizal Without the Overcoat":

His essays remind us that history need not and should not be relegated to schoolbooks and classrooms, where it often becomes a set of names and dates to memorize and spew out on test papers. History is a living and lively account of what we were and are; it could and should be as real to each of us as stories about family or about recent and past events.. If all of that makes us understand humanity better, so does history make us understand ourselves, and our country infinitely better, in the context of our culture and our society. "

― Ambeth R. Ocampo , Rizal Without the Overcoat: Expanded Edition

10 " It is ironic that many Filipinos learn to love the Philippines while abroad, not at home. "

― Ambeth R. Ocampo , Rizal Without the Overcoat: Expanded Edition

11 " Filipinos have an aversion to blank walls. "

― Ambeth R. Ocampo , Rizal Without the Overcoat: Expanded Edition

12 " I guess if you go around with famous people you are assured of some reflected (or deflected) glory. "

― Ambeth R. Ocampo , Rizal Without the Overcoat: Expanded Edition