Thanks to visit codestin.com
Credit goes to www.scribd.com

Scribd
Upload
54 views2 pages

Students Explore Rizal's Heroism

Rizal is considered the Philippines' national hero for fighting for the country's freedom through peaceful means such as his writings, rather than violence or aggression. As an intelligent and talented person, he used non-violent reform and opened his countrymen's eyes to issues under Spanish rule. When the Americans occupied the Philippines, they chose Rizal as the national hero to discourage further revolt by the Filipinos and portray him as a role model for peaceful change. Rizal meets the criteria for a national hero by aspiring and struggling for his nation's freedom through his concepts and contributions without revolution or sinking back into bondage.

Uploaded by

SHIERA MAE AGUSTIN
Copyright
© © All Rights Reserved
We take content rights seriously. If you suspect this is your content, claim it here.
Available Formats
Download as PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
54 views2 pages

Students Explore Rizal's Heroism

Rizal is considered the Philippines' national hero for fighting for the country's freedom through peaceful means such as his writings, rather than violence or aggression. As an intelligent and talented person, he used non-violent reform and opened his countrymen's eyes to issues under Spanish rule. When the Americans occupied the Philippines, they chose Rizal as the national hero to discourage further revolt by the Filipinos and portray him as a role model for peaceful change. Rizal meets the criteria for a national hero by aspiring and struggling for his nation's freedom through his concepts and contributions without revolution or sinking back into bondage.

Uploaded by

SHIERA MAE AGUSTIN
Copyright
© © All Rights Reserved
We take content rights seriously. If you suspect this is your content, claim it here.
Available Formats
Download as PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
You are on page 1/ 2

LESSON 2: Rizal as a National Hero

OBJECTIVES:

1. Explain the reasons why Rizal is a national hero.


2. Analyze the context of the article about Rizal as a national hero through the activity given.

Why is Jose Rizal our national hero?

A hero symbolizes goodness. Rizal gave us freedom by using goodness. Jose Rizal
became a Philippine national hero because he fought for freedom in a silent but powerful
way. He expressed his love for the Philippines through his novels, essays, and articles rather
than through the use of force or aggression. He was a very amazing person at his time. He
was humble, fighting for reforms through his writings instead of through a revolution. He
used his intelligence, talents, and skills in a more peaceful way rather than the aggressive
way.

Rizal is an American-sponsored hero: he opted for nonviolent reform in the


government. Instead, he used his writings to open the eyes of the Filipinos. He dedicated his
life to his countrymen without hesitation.

He was known for his meekness and coolness, but he never fought in a war. Most of
the world’s Heroes were elevated as such because of their war exploits. Rizal never did it. He
was using his pen for criticism about the handling of the Spanish government in the
Philippines. He fought to have the Philippines a permanent representation in the Spanish
Cortes. That's why when the US accepted the Philippines as a vassal country, Gen. Taft who
was the Governor-general here, appointed Jose Rizal as the National Hero of the Philippines,
to douse the fighting fervor of the Filipinos who are fighting for freedom at that time.

The Americans decided for him to be a national hero during their time in the country.
It is said that the American, Civil Governor William Howard Taft, chose Jose Rizal to be the
national hero as a strategy. Rizal didn't want a bloody revolution in his time. So, they wanted
him to be a "good example" to the Filipinos so that the people will not revolt against the
Americans. Rizal became a National Hero because he passed the criteria by being a National
Hero during the American period.

Page 1
Adding that Rizal passed Criteria for National Heroes:

1. Heroes are those who have a concept of a nation and thereafter aspire and struggle
for the nation’s freedom. In reality, however, a revolution has no end. Revolutions are
only the beginning. One cannot aspire to be free only to sink back into bondage.

2. Heroes are those who define and contribute to a system or life of freedom and order
for a nation. Freedom without order will only lead to anarchy. Therefore, heroes are
those who make the nation’s constitution and laws. To the latter, constitutions are
only the beginning, for it is the people living under the constitution that truly
constitute a nation.

3. Heroes are those who contribute to the quality of life and destiny of a nation. (As
defined by Dr. Onofre D. Corpuz)

Additional Criteria for Heroes:

1. A hero is part of the people’s expression. But the process of a people’s internalization
of a hero’s life and works takes time, with the youth forming a part of the
internalization.
2. A hero thinks of the future, especially the future generations.
3. The choice of a hero involves not only the recounting of an episode or events in
history but of the entire process that made this particular person a hero.

Page 2

You might also like