Rizal and philippine nationalism we will first study the importance of history and 19th century for

us to delve into Rizal's life properly and understand the situation. Back then in my history
classes I always proposed the working definition of kasaysayan or history as a narrative about
past events that has meaning to a certain group of people in a given time and place. These two
components of kasaysayan or salaysay and saysay are inseparable. Without both you cannot
have true history. I feel more strongly about the word kasaysayan than the western words for
history because in the latter history can be mere narrative of past events while kasaysayan is
not just a narrative or salaysay it must have saysay or meaning. If we find meaning in history
that it will gain the power to change our lives.Taytay gives as a way of looking at the world a
filipino viewpoint that influences the way we see the past the present and hopefully the future
our main purpose is to change the viewpoint of our lives we should focus on that because that's
the only way we can appreciate the relevance of history as we go on with rizal's life and its
impact on our current issues events and how it develop into what we call now as the philippine
nationalism.

Without memory we cannot form relationships, we cannot know who we are, we cannot even
forge our identity. The same is true for history. History is not just memorizing forgettable dates,
unpronounceable names and strange places. History is not just telling our students funny
stories, history is making people see their past, thereby giving them a sense of being filipinos. if
memory gives us our individual identities thenhistory will contribute to a national memory and
eventually that elusive thing we now call national identity .

Teach us hows and whys

● Open ended
● Teaches us to see connections betwee