“To the Filipino Youth”

Jose Rizal was 18 years old when he wrote this prize-winning poem, A La Juventud
Filipina, an immortal poem that is so much cherished by every Filipinos especially the
youths. What does this poem sponsor?

The poem’s theme, “Grow, O Timid Flower”, simply shows persuasion. To ‘grow’
sounds compelling from Rizal who always wanted to make everyone rise from what is
necessary amidst the cruelty that dominates among the Spaniards leadership. Using
‘timid’ that describes a Filipino youth makes me think of fearful youths who only submit
themselves to how Spaniards lay out lives for them. Indeed, there is a disappointment
from Rizal’s perspective to see how coward those people of his age are. No matter
what, he still sees the light that every youth have. Like a flower that still needs to be
grown, Filipino youth should realize that he has the potential in him.

Rizal mentioned “Spaniard’s holy land” and “crown’s resplendent band” in the 4 th stanza
of his poem which shows good attributes to the Spaniards. These words chose by him
was put in place to balance his thoughts of seeing “Spaniards putting chains” (stanza 3)
to every Filipinos that needs to get untied for setting the youths “spirit free”.

In the poem, he always advocated for rising and waking up. Did Rizal ever think of arm
struggle as a nationalistic move for every Filipinos? Though he wanted to make Filipinos
spread around the flame, go for the sacred fire and use one’s divine voice, Rizal was
seemingly unclear about his specific moves to gain fair and hope for his fatherland. He
neither introduces arm struggle nor foreseeing a bloody revolution to claim for victory.
Instead, he advocated for an immortal strength, one that must use its ingenuity and
must aspire for a laurel or an honor that is lasting.

All of Rizal’s dreams to the Filipino youths are simply a replica to what he has done
throughout his entire life. He was more bias towards using one’s own intelligence to
fight against the flaming zone created by the Spaniards. What he even portrayed was
that pen is mightier than sword. On the 8th stanza, he even wanted to transform the
clear accent of every Filipinos, which is the voice of freedom of every Filipinos, to a
magical art using a brush that is to be simply portrayed on a canvas.

Simply speaking, the message that Rizal wanted to communicate with us is the means
of making peaceful process to achieve what we want for our fatherland. This is not only
a message directed to the Filipino youths of yesterday but also to the youths of today. It
is imperative that we must fulfill our responsibilities as we will use our skills, knowledge,
talent, and strength for the advancement of our country.

As I may put this poem to the Filipino youths of today, we must fight for what is intended
to be good for the Philippines. So as not to waste the hope of Rizal, being a man who
just turned-out 20 this year, I know that life is getting tougher as we step out from the
university, same as other youths of my age who are also graduating this semester.
Together, Filipino youths must identify our niche and must maximize our knowledge and
skills in our chosen field. With this, we must always think that we will be then part of the
growth of our chosen niche and thus we will always instill in our minds that we will be a
contributor to the advancement of our country.

My Last Farewell
Jose Rizal's "My Last Farewell" is a poem about his impending death as he
wanted to honor his homeland, the pre-Hispanic Philippines, for which he was
giving his life. He also used the poem to say goodbye to his friends, family and loved
ones.
Rizal faced execution shortly after he wrote the poem, on December 30, 1896, at the
hands of a Spanish army firing squad. The army's intent was to kill Filipino soldiers like
Rizal, who had formed a rebellion against the Spanish incursion. Rizal hid the poem in
an alcohol stove for his family members to find.

Rizal's poem was originally written in Spanish, without a title or date attached to it. It has
also been translated with the title, "Goodbye, My Beloved Fatherland." Rizal is
considered a national hero in the Philippines, and his poem was later recited by
Indonesian soldiers prior to battle during the Indonesian National Revolution in the
1940s.

"My Last Farewell" is required reading in schools in the Philippines. It is 14 stanzas

long, and lauded for its nationalism. Rizal emphasizes in the poem that in his death, he
is finally finding freedom from the oppression and enslavement the Filipinos faced at the
hands of the Spanish.
TO THE FLOWERS OF HEIDELBERG
(Rizal in this paragraph poetically requests the flowers of
Heidelberg to speak of him in the Philippines)
mentions the times of day starting from dawn and the break of sunlight. He
beautifully asked the flowers to bear witness to his undying concern for his
motherland when at dawn he sings to the flowers native songs in exchange of
their gift of natural perfume. And in the morning under the soft light of the early
sun he reflects still of his motherland where the same sun now is at its highest...
as if he is connected with his motherland through the sun)

(Rizal poetically describes his plan for the flowers to carry his message to
his motherland. He plucks them and preserves them in his book)

His first message to the country is peace, virtue to women, courage to men)

(He poetically describes his will that his kisses on the flower may be carried by
the wind to his loved ones)

(Here is the paradox: Rizal used the flowers of Heidelberg as his symbol of
his love for his motherland. The beauty of the flowers is comparable to the way
he looks at our country that anyone who will see the flower may get in touch with
Rizal's concern for his motherland. Though noble this may seem to be, Rizal in
the last stanza reflected on its utter futility since the flower will no longer be the
same when it reaches the country. Its beauty and perfume, which should reflect
Rizal's intentions for the country, will long be gone. Why? For it is far from its
fatherland.)

Rizal wrote this when he was at Germany. In France and Germany, Rizal
was well known and respected. But he may have realized what good will their
respect do to his country. What good will this do to the Philippines if he is serving
foreign lands and not his own. His verses had a single symbol--The flowers of
Heidelberg. But it symbolizes two realities. First, the flowers' beauty symbolizes
Rizal's love for his country, and second, the flowers' reduced quality refers to
Rizal's useless presence in another country. Later he decided to return to the
country despite repeated warning from his friends and relatives.

Education means a form of learning in which knowledge, skills and habits are transferred
from on generation to the nest generation. The education of a person starts when he
born. At the early stage the most important teachers of a child are his parents and
specially his mother's. Because one mothers can teach his child best. As there are three
levels of education primary, secondary and tertiary.

One always quickly consider that for the developmental role of education in a country
the tertiary level is important, but I think that for better future the bass means start is
important and the start of a child's education is within his mother's hands. So the
nations or countries are by build by mothers, if he teacher child well then it is impossible
that country can't developing.

The education plays a great role in developing country in every field. It plays like a
model role in the development of one country if the people of a country are educated
then they can easily helps them in development.

In the earlier stages the peoples are talented, so that they invent many ideas and think
much more but due to lake of education they can't prove them much more. At that time
they have no laboratories in which they can prove their ideas. But now the world which
is developing are used their ideas and thinking. It is due to education that they are
developed so that they can prove the thinking of past scientists.

Education is the driving force for the national development and economic growth are
very strongly depends on the education and these both are playing great role in
developing a country. The nations are build by education economic growth can be
increased, if the peoples of a country are educated they can easily grow up the national
economy because then they can better knows the economic principles and rules and
can think about them easily if they are educated.

Education gives people the skills they need to help themselves out of poverty or, in
other words, into prosperity. If one got education then he is able to a better job then a
labor's work. He is ale to do a government job or any other private job and can show
their skills which are helpful in developing a country. There is huge difference between
an educated and uneducated person, an uneducated can't show his ideas and skills
better than an educated person. He is always beyond the educated one. Hence it is the
education which can leads a person from poverty into prosperity.

As we know that the agriculture plays a very important role in the development of a
country. The education plays a great role in the field of agriculture. If we gives the
education of agriculture to the students then they can perform better in the agriculture
field, they can invent the new ideas which improve the rate of agriculture and their
quality. Nowadays the nation gives a chances to the student to study about the
agriculture which is very good process because if the new talent know the advantages of
agriculture in the role of country then they can solve all the problems in the field of
agriculture if they study the agriculture. And by this way if the agriculture of a country is
healthy then that country can perform better in the competition of advancement in the
world. Therefore the education plays a great role in agriculture which is very important
for the development of country.
Education plays great role on health. As if the peoples of a country are healthy then they
can work hard and good. They can think positively and perform his duty better than any
sick person if the peoples of a country are educated then they can take health care and
cleanliness. They can take his health care better than an uneducated person by knowing
the advantages and disadvantages of that action that they want to done. They never
want to do anything which is harmful for his health. And due to this reason they can
take health care and can perform better in developing a country.

For the development of a country, the medical field is necessary. One country should
have advanced his medical field for the development of a country. Nowadays the ratios
of doctor's are increasing gradually. The doctors can play a great role in developing a
country. They can control the health of people of a country. if they work hard then they
can invent new ideas and processes of different diseases. If the doctors of a one country
are talented and invent new ideas about the health and in medical field they can play a
great role in developing a country. The development of a country in medical field are
within the doctors hands, if they work hard then they can achieve all the targets that are
face nowadays in a country.

The role of religion in the development of a country can plays a great role. The religion
has great effects on nations. One country can know him in the world y religion. Actually
the nations are building by religions. The religion of one country can united the peoples.
They can live in a unity by the religion. The religion and culture plays a great role in a
country, they can attract the peoples of other countries and also have effect on non-
Muslims. The countries can develop by remaining his cultural and religions relations.
Similarly all type of education, the religious education plays a good role in developing a
country. Hence we should also take interest in religious education.

It is necessary to familiarize students to the technology and modern living and careers
and in the development of country. if the students knows that what and how technology
helps in the development of a country and they are thought about the technology then
they can make advanced from them and can play a great role because nowadays the
student are talented and can achieved the targets. The technology can become country
prosperity; they play a huge role in the developing countries.

The one of the most important thing which plays an important role in developing a
country is AN ART. The art of one country should develop a country. All subjects like
technology, medical and engineering, the arts has its own importance. By arts one
country can remain continues his culture and history. Nowadays the nations are
developing by arts.
"Art enables us to find ourselves or lose ourselves at the same time." Arts include many
branches which help in developing a country. Mostly they include media, painting,
designing and many more which helps much nowadays in developing a country. Like
other types of education the art also have some value in developing a country. It is due
to arts that the countries lead one another. So we should also give a time to study arts
because it plays a great role in developing a country.

In general all levels of education are important but the most important one is tertiary
level, which Includes College, university and higher education. In this stage the students
have to face many difficulties and learn more about the every field of life. Also within the
teen ages a child have sharp mind so they can learn every thing in every field. In other
words they can think both positively and negatively and they can show a good result in
both field. So here the education plays important role to teach a child that what is right
and what is wrong? If they have to teach well means teach positively then they can
shows a good result in developing a country. So that's the reason that tertiary level of
education plays an important role in the development of country.

Education teaches us that how one can live his life better. He teaches us about the
relationships and manner of leaving in a society then in country and in a world at global
level. He teaches us the difference between that how can leave our life better and
prevent ourselves from bad societies.

An education is a basic necessity for any country's development and helps us in

teaching that how we can improve the culture of peace. Due to education we can
improve our technology and mostly our defense technology by which we can secure our
country. if the peoples of a country are educated then the other countries want a
relationship with that country by which we can improve the business with other
countries and can improve the income of our country, and can leads our country at the
top of world's country list.

The country or nation's systems are by one person which is known as leaders of that
country. Now if the leaders of a country are well educated and qualified then they can
control all the system of that country very well. They can think positive and can compete
with another country easily in the field of development and prosperity of a country.

They can easily perform his functions and duties under the rules and equality with every
person, otherwise if the leaders of a country are uneducated then they can't control the
system well, they can't give justice to every one. They can't take any information about
the modern world .They can't compete with another countries in the field of
development. Hence there is a great difference between an educated and uneducated
leader. This is only educated leader who can perform every duty of a country well.
Every field of education has its own importance in the development of a country. Like
other subjects engineering also plays great importance. Nowadays all the factories and
industries work due to engineering. Due to engineering the most difficult and time
consuming works are become short, due to machine and new technology we are able to
done it in a very short time. Due to engineering the countries are even able to become
an atomic bomb. They invent many new technologies all most in every fields which can
work easily and time saving. One nation can become better from another one on the
basis of technologies. So the education is necessary for seeding the technical education
like engineering because they can play a great role in developing a country and helps
them to become superior in the world.

There are some difficulties that we face now it the field of education also which creates
problems in developing a country. The most important challenges in the field of
education are acknowledgment. The peoples don't know the importance of education.
They don't understand his importance. The second thing is that, there is a lot of poverty
in a country due t which we face challenges in the field of education. The people can't
found something for his food then how can how got education and become a pillars in
the development of a country. After that one of the problem is corruption due to which
we can't got opportunity by which we can go higher education and can help in
developing a country.

Those countries who know the importance of education, so they first prefer to got
education. Also there are some countries in which all the students can't get education in
the universities. So they give scholarships to someone's who are talented and they got
education on free of cost. Those countries first prefer to get education because they
know that there is nothing which helps in developing a country more than education.

Therefore the education plays a great role in a country. They help in the every field of
life. It informs us in about the every thing after this is in our control that how we use
that thing. We can use them positively or negatively. If we want to develop a country
then we should be use it positively.

Education seeks us that what and how and how many one thing develop a country. it
shows all the advantages and disadvantages about that thing. Education helps us to
teach one thing first and then we can use it in developing a country.

Hence the education plays a huge and a great role in developing a country. Due to this
the Diogenes Caertius says that "The foundation of every state is the education of its
youth".
Religion In Education

Religion seems to be avoided in schools, educators are reluctant to raising the topic of religion in
the classroom. Understandably they worry about offending students, or favoring a belief for that
matter. Addressing religion in schools is essential to learning, and can adequately provide students
with a diverse connection to the world. It is legal to discuss and teach students about religion in an
unbiased and academically correct way. Therefore it is the educator’s choice whether to do so or not.
Religion is an important factor in education for various reasons. Including religion in education will
help decrease the amount of religiously motivated hate crimes. Along with making the student body
more diverse, and enhancing the students education. Students have a First Amendment right to
religious expression in school and should be able to exercise that right.

Religiously motivated hate crimes are on the rise, therefore to decrease this we should be teaching
students about religion during school hours. Research shows that the percentage of hate crimes led by
religion bias was about three times higher in 2012 than in 2004. Many of the violent hate crime
leaders are school age. If educators encourage students to understand and respect people of different
religious beliefs, it will immensely help lower the percentage of these hate crimes. Without teaching
religion in schools some children feel that crime is acceptable, along with acting out because they
aren’t taught any better.

Today, our student bodies are much more diverse. Which means that students are going to come
across students of different race, culture, and religions. Students need to learn how to be able to
accept these differences, and not be judgmental. To ensure that students of less familiar cultures and
religious backgrounds feel included and accepted in their learning environment, teachers need to
begin providing different types of opportunities for all of the students to share unique features about
themselves. As their classmates become more educated about these differences, the likelihood of
exclusivity and bullying will largely decrease.

Religious literacy is key to a well-rounded education; this will enhance the student’s education by
teaching them more knowledge about different religions around the world. If students are going to
function as global citizens, and be members of society; they will need to understand religion's impact
on history, politics, society, and culture. Students should know basic religious facts and should be
able to recognize the diversity that exists in each belief system that surrounds them. Students will
also be encountering different types of people throughout their lives, and they are going to need to
know how to deal with it and accept it.

Students have a First Amendment right to religious expression in school. With that being said, the
U.S. Constitution contains two different types of clauses, known as the religion clauses. They are
there to inform the relationship between religion and public schools. As government employees,
public school teachers and administrators must follow these two clauses and are required to be
neutral about religion while educating their students. Students have the right to believe in what
they’d like to believe, and say what they want to say. Students are allowed to express how they feel,
and they do indeed have the right to religious expression.

Students who are taught about religion seem to have a better grasp on reality. Allowing them to have
a better concept about what is going on in the world around us dealing with different religions,
cultures, and values. Along with being more open minded about other peoples beliefs, instead of just
focusing on their own and acknowledging others. Religious education is easily ignored when it
comes to teaching it in schools. People feel that religion does not need to be discussed. That it is
better to just keep to themselves, in fear that it could offend someone and their own beliefs. When
religion is brought up in education we seem to ignore it, and not appreciate it the way that we should.
Religion gets merged in with citizenship and social studies, instead of talking about it separately.
Students should be taught about religion. It can teach them valuable ways of thinking, which can help
them throughout life. Religion is a key concept and helps broaden people’s knowledge about the
world around us. There are so many different types of religions, which is why it is necessary for us to
have an understanding and idea of the other religions that people are apart of and value.