(speech about rizal's value of education)

To modest ladies, and gentlemen that are here today, a pleasant

morning/afternoon to each of you!

I am Gianrie Gwyneth Cabigon and I am about to tackle the one of the most

notable values delivered by our national hero, Dr. Jose P. Rizal − the importance of

education.

Dr. Jose Rizal was such a wise ingenious to sightsee and suggest that

education is the answer to liberate our countrymen from oppression. It was for this

reason why he did not favor revolution in his time because he should have

envisioned that even when we successfully conquer the Spaniards and get the

freedom of independence, the system will not change, only the ones that administer

it.

His values remained remarkable and relevant to what is happening in the

Philippines today. Pessimism and lack of abstraction or higher order thinking

capabilities are just one of the primitive reasons why we have bad governance and

backward economy. Through the years, we have been exploited by our own rich

and powerful fellow men because of our indolence. Many opportunities have

remained untapped just because we lack the necessary know how and skills or we
tend to disregard what is important, necessary and needed because we believe

otherwise.

May we remember what Dr. Rizal has testified about the significance of
education; "Let us cease to be empirical and routinary. Let us learn to progress. Let
us seek the direct good, for life is short and the mission of man is great. Let
everyone fulfill his duties and obligations in the sphere in which he lives, not only
for the sake of complying with and not failing the mandate, but to do good and to
help in the common task of suffering and progressive humanity."

As a student I will use my voice to make a stand in able to make an

awareness of how important an education is − to you, to me, to our fellowmen and
society.