The Council of National Education is authorized and responsible for taking prompt measures to implement and implement the provisions of this section, including the drafting and printing of appropriate primers, readers and textbooks. The Council shall make rules and regulations, including disciplinary regulations, within sixty (60) days after the day on which this Act comes into force, for the purpose of carrying out and enforcing the provisions of this Act. The Council shall make rules and regulations providing for the exemption of students on grounds of religious belief, indicated in writing in an affidavit, from the requirement of the provision of part two of the first paragraph of this section; but not the rate provided for in the first part of this paragraph. These rules and regulations shall enter into force thirty (30) days after their publication in the Official Journal. SECTION 2. It is obligatory for all schools, colleges and universities to keep in their libraries an appropriate number of copies of the original and unredacted editions of Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo, as well as other works and biographies of rizal. The aforementioned unredacted editions of Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo or their translations into English and other writings by Rizal are included in the list of books approved for compulsory reading in all public or private schools, colleges and universities. SECTION 3. The National Education Council organizes the translation of Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo, as well as other writings by Jose Rizal, into English, Tagalog and the main Filipino dialects; have them printed in cheap and popular editions; and ensure that they are distributed free of charge to people who wish to read them, through Purok organizations and neighborhood councils across the country. After the bill came into force, there were no recorded cases of students requesting an exemption from reading novels, and there is no known procedure for such exceptions. [6] In 1994, President Fidel V. Ramos instructed the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports to fully implement the law, as it had been reported that it was still not fully implemented. [7] 1425, known as the Rizal Act, mandated all educational institutions in the Philippines to offer courses on Jose Rizal.
Law of the Republic No. Ramon Magsaysay on June 12, 1956, which allows all schools in the country to have the life, works and writings of Rizal in the curriculum. Rizal returned to the Philippines in 1892. He founded a non-violent reform society, Liga Filipina, in Manila and was deported to Dapitan in northwestern Mindanao. He remained in exile for the next four years. In 1896, the Katipunan, a Philippine nationalist secret society, revolted against Spain. It was organized by Rizal to bring young Filipinos together in Paris so that they could enjoy their stay in the city during the international exhibition. He said to his friends, “Why should we feel uncomfortable being called Indians by the Spaniards? The Rizal Law, promulgated in 1956, aims to achieve the following objectives: to re-dedicate the lives of young people to the ideals of freedom and nationalism for which our heroes lived and died. To thank our national hero for dedicating his life and work to shaping the Filipino character. Outside the Senate, Catholic schools threatened to close if the law was passed; Recto replied that in this case, the schools would be nationalized.
Recto did not believe in the threat and said schools were too profitable to be closed. [1] Schools dropped the threat but threatened to “punish” lawmakers in favor of the law in the upcoming election. A compromise was proposed to use the redacted version; Recto, who had supported the required reading of the unredacted version, explained: “People who would remove Rizal`s books from schools would erase the memory of the national hero from our minds. This is not a fight against Recto, but a fight against Rizal,” adding that since Rizal is dead, they are trying to suppress his memory. [6] On May 12, 1956, a compromise presented by the chairman of the Education Committee, Laurel, which took into account the objections of the Catholic Church, was adopted unanimously. The bill stipulated that only students should have the ability to read unredacted versions of clerically controversial reading materials such as Noli Me Tángere and El Filibusterismo. [1] [4] [6] The law was promulgated on June 12, 1956,[4] flag day. Published in the Official Journal, Volume 52, No 6, p.
2971 in June 1956. Jose Rizal [Rizal Laws] A law to include in the curricula of all public and private schools, colleges and universities courses on the life`s work and writings of JOSE RIZAL, in particular his novels NOLI ME TANGERE and EL FILIBUSTERISMO, the approval of the printing and distribution of these and for other purposes. The Archbishop of Manila, Rufino Santos, protested in a pastoral letter that Catholic students would be affected if the compulsory reading of the unredacted version was applied. [4] Arsenio Lacson, the mayor of Manila, who supported the law, was leaving Mass when the priest read a circular from the archbishop condemning the law. [5] The Rizal Law, officially known as republic law No. denoted…
