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Group 4 - The Rizal Law Outline
Group 4 - The Rizal Law Outline
TOPIC CONTENTS
o “An act to include in the curricula of all public and private schools,
colleges and universities courses on the life, works and writings of Jose
Rizal, particularly his novels Noli me Tangere and El Filibusterismo
authorizing the printing and distribution thereof, and for other purposes.”
o Fidel Ramos directed CHED and DECS to fully implement the law
through CMO No. 247 in 1994.
o CMO No. 3 was issued to enforce strictly the law in 1995.
o today, more than any other period of our history, there is a need for a
re-dedication to the ideals of freedom and nationalism for which our
heroes lived and died;
o the life, works and writing of Jose Rizal, particularly his novels Noli Me
Tangere and El Filibusterismo, are a constant and inspiring source of
patriotism with which the minds of the youth, especially during their
formative and decisive years in school, should be suffused;
o all educational institutions are under the supervision of, and subject to
regulation by the State, and all schools are enjoined to develop moral
character, personal discipline, civic conscience and to teach the
duties of citizenship.
o June 12, 1956, the bill was signed by President Ramon Magsasay
and became Republic Act 1425.
o It teaches nationalism;