Individual Learning Progress Report

Name: Joenel B. Pablo Jr. Course/Year: BSIED-FT3a

Subject: Rizal Inclusive Dates:

A. Topics covered (Specific content covered in the):

a. Republic Act 1425 and Its Importance
B. Learning
The Rizal Law, also known as RA 1425, mandates the study of Rizal’s life and works, as
shown in section 1. This Republic Act calls for an increased sense of nationalism from the
Filipinos during a time of a dwindling Filipino identity. According to the judicial system, a
republic act is a law that has already been passed and implemented. In contrast to this, a bill is
merely a proposed law, in other words it may or may not be passed by the Congress.

Section 2 mandated that the students were to read the novels as they were written in
Spanish, although a provision ordered that the Board of National Education create rules on how
these should be applied. The last two sections were focused on making Rizal's works accessible
to the general public: the second section mandated the schools to have "an adequate number" of
copies in their libraries, while the third ordered the board to publish the works in major Philippine
languages.

We have learned that Jose Rizal’s vast role in the attainment of the nation’s freedom led to the
issuance of Republic Act 1425 on June 12, 1956. Commonly known as the Rizal Act, it was
sponsored by Senator Claro M. Recto. It requires the curricula of private and public schools,
colleges and universities courses to include the life, works and writings of Jose Rizal, particularly
his novels Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo in order to educate the students about the
concept of nationalism. A few days before the celebration of the birth centenary of Jose Rizal in
1961, Pres. Garcia issued Executive Order No. 429 on June 2, creating a decoration intended to
perpetuate Rizal’s memory, to be known as the Rizal Pro Patria Award. It was to be awarded by
the President of the Philippines to those who have rendered outstanding work for the benefit of
their community. Among the recipients of this decoration in the past were N. V. M. Gonzalez,
Alejandro Roces, Juan Nakpil, Felipe Padilla De Leon, and Wilfredo Ma. Guerero.

The date December 30, 1996 was the centenary of the martyrdom of Rizal was confirmed. Highlights
included the tracing of the last walk of Rizal from his detention cell at Fort Santiago followed by the
reenactment of the hero’s execution and flag raising at Luneta Park, Manila. A monument of Rizal was
also inaugurated on 5 December 1996 along the Avenida de Las Islas Filipinas in Madrid, Spain.

C. Reflection
Based on the module that been given to me, Rizal Law or the RA 1425 has a significance in the our
past and future life. In the first place, Rizal Law offers a storehouse of information about how people and
societies behave before and after. Understanding the operations of people and societies is difficult, though
a number of disciplines make the attempt. An exclusive reliance on current data would needlessly
handicap our efforts. The second reason Rizal’s life is inescapable as a subject of serious study follows
closely on the first. The past causes the present, and so the future. Any time we try to know why
something happened.
 Stories well done are stories that reveal how people and societies have actually functioned, and they
prompt thoughts about the human experience in other times and places. The same aesthetic and
humanistic goals inspire people to immerse themselves in efforts to reconstruct quite remote pasts, far
removed from immediate, present-day utility. Exploring what historians sometimes call the "pastness of
the past"—the ways people in distant ages constructed their lives—involves a sense of beauty and
excitement, and ultimately another perspective on human life and society. This is what life of Rizal is. To
reconstruct the future generation.
Rizal also provides a terrain for moral contemplation. Studying the stories of individuals and
situations in the past allows a student of history to test his or her own moral sense, to hone it against some
of the real complexities individuals have faced in difficult settings. To awaken what inside his mind and
heart. This also helps to rededicate the Filipino heart’s to nationalism.
As a subject, it also helps provide identity, and this is unquestionably one of the reasons why Rizalist
encourage its teaching in some form. Historical data include evidence about how families, groups,
institutions and whole countries were formed and about how they have evolved while retaining cohesion.
For many Filipino, studying Rizal’s life provide more evident reason to preserve and foster a nation's
traditional cultures and cultural revivals have been associated with nationalist movements just like Rizal
did.

With this we can apply it in our lives  when we study it reasonably well. With this acquisition, we
can regain our consciousness of patriotism, as well as some basic data about the forces that affect our
own lives, we emerge with relevant skills and an enhanced capacity for informed citizenship, critical
thinking, and simple awareness.