CHAPTER 8:

RIZALS
CONCEPTS ON
NATION
BUILDING
GROUP VIII MEMBERS:
CANZANA, Iris P.
JUNTO, Ethel Rose A.
URBANO, Louise Ceres Beth M.
TABANGAY, Chiara Ellyn A.
BAUTISTA, Annelyn V.
RIZALS CONCEPT OF NATION BUILDING

1. Blueprint for Nation Building.

2. Program of Action.
3. Program of Reforms.
4. Educational Reforms.
5. Socio-Economic Reforms.
6. Moral Principles and Teachings.
RIZALS BLUEPRINT FOR NATION BUILDING
Rizals
political conviction and concept of
nationalism matured between 1882-1887.

Hesaw his country abused, maligned by the

vices of the spaniards and the filipinos alike.

THE PROLONGED SUBJUGATION OF HIS PEOPLE

WAS CAUSED BY TWO FACTORS:
1. Absence of national consciousness.
2. Poor training and education of the people.
RIZALS BLUEPRINT FOR NATION BUILDING

RIZALS FOR NATION BUILDING INCLUDES THE FF:

1. Importance of education.
2. Instilling racial pride.
3. Dignity among the people.
4. Promotion of national consciousness.
5. Re-orientation of values and attitudes.
6. Willingness to sacrifice for the country.
RIZALS BLUEPRINT FOR NATION BUILDING

Rizal looked upon education as a pre-requisite to

the realization of the peoples freedom.
He insisted on educating his people so that they
may successfully eradicate the vices of their
society.

THESE FACTORS PRODUCED A FEELING OF INFERIORITY

AND A LACK OF RACIAL PRIDE AND DIGNITY:
1. Long period of colonial domination.
2. The constant humiliations.
3. Discrimination experienced by the Filipino
people.
RIZALS BLUEPRINT FOR NATION BUILDING
Rizal
wanted to inculcate into his people an
understanding of history from which, he
believed, sprang the roots genuine nationalism.

He wanted his people to dedicate their

thoughts, words, and actions, not solely for
themselves as individuals but to themselves as
citizens of a nation.

Rizalemphasized that the task of nation

building is accompanied by hardships and
sufferings.
RIZALS BLUEPRINT FOR NATION BUILDING

The paramount problem during Rizals time was:

1. the development of a national
consciousness.
2. The causes of their oppression.
3. The sacrifices they must endure to be
freed from colonial domination.

Rizal envisioned a nation of individuals who

would make responsible and independent
judgement and who would think in terms of the
welfare of the whole community
RIZALS PROGRAM OF ACTION
His program of action consisted of a plan to:
Organize a group of Filipino students in Madrid.
They would form the nucleus of a group that in
the future would use their varied talents to
work for solutions to the Philippine problems.

Proposed to them the writing of a book similar

to Harriet Beecher StowesUncle Toms
Cabinand Eugene SuesThe Wandering
Jewwhich would deal with the various aspects
of Filipino life.
 Rizal chose to annotate MorgasSucesos de las
Islas Filipinas. (Excerpt from his dedicatory
remarksIt is necessary to first lay bare the past in
order to better judge the present and to survey the
road trodden during three centuries.

He wroteThe Indolence of the Filipinoswhich

came out as a series of 5 articles inLa
Solidaridadfrom 15 July to 15 September, 1899.

Feared the possibility of the Filipinos resort to

arms as a desperate means to fight, he wroteEl
Filibusterismoto show his countrymen the price
they should be willing to pay and the problems
they would have solve first before plunging the
country to revolution.
 Rizalsmajor plan of organization was the
establishment ofLa Liga Filipina(Philippine
League).

His exile demonstrated the heros untiring

efforts at continuing the program of action that
he relentlessly pursued for the realization of his
blueprint of nation building. Establishment of a
school and a clinic therein, the community
development projects he undertook.
Rizals Program of Reforms
Political
Reforms
Educational Reforms
Socio-Economic Reforms
Moral Principles and teachings
RIZALS PROGRAM OF
REFORMS
RIZALS POLITICAL REFORMS
Rizals Political view:
To seek a self reliant self-respecting government
and a peoples government, made for the
people , by the people, and answerable to the
people.

Rizal was a pragmatist for he had a practical

approaches for the solution of domestic as well
as international problems
In his essay, The Philippines
within a century, Rizal warned
the Spanish government that
unless she provided a solution for
their accumulated complaints, the
Filipino would one day revolt to
Spain.
Rizal advocated the adoption of
certain basic reforms by the
government.
Reforms, he said to be effective must
come from above. Those which come
below will be irregular and unstable

He believed that if carried out as

planned, such reforms will be the
happiest country in the world.
 Basic Political Reforms

1. The restoration of Filipino

representation in the Spanish
Cortes and the freedom of the
press.

A government that rules a country from a

great distance has the most need for a free
press more so even than the government of the
home country if it wishes, to rule rightly, he
commented.
2. Reorganization of the
administrative machinery

By proposing the general reorganization of the

administrative machinery, Rizal included the
secularization of parishes, the improvements in
the judicial procedure and the improvement of
the quality and efficiency of the government
personnel.
3. Adoption of competitive
examination and the publication of
its results.

Rizal asked that Filipinos be allowed the same

opportunity to hold the government positions
equal to the Spaniards.

Rizal advocated the adoption of competitive

examination and the publication of its result, to
serve as stimuli for Filipinos and so as not shake
off his indolence.
4. Religious Liberty

Rizal demanded the removal of the friars from

the administration of provinces, towns and
parishes. He claimed that the friars should be
politically immobilized for they were an evil
influence.

Rizal considered religion as something that

should never make men enemies but brothers.
RIZALS EDUCATIONAL REFORMS

Rizal gave top priority to the

importance of education in pursuance of
liberty and advocated it as a necessary
in free society .
Rizals Desires and Plans for educating the
Filipino people (conversation with Gov. Carnicero at Dapitan and
Letter to Blumentritt and his sister.)

Promote primary instruction and

established school of arts and craft.
Education is a must in a free society
Advice his countrymen to acquire
education.
Established a college in the Philippine
when condition improved.
 Planned to set up a modern school in
Hong Kong . With an aim : Development of
instruction .

a) Give emphasis to study of Science

and Technology
b) Different curriculum
Hindrance :
Political powers of friars and their
control over the educational system.

Lack of substantial financial support

from the government.

.
Rizals ideas on education
education would liberate the Filipinos from
ignorance and prepare them for the reform
and freedom they had been aspiring for.

The school is the basis of society , the

school is the book in which is written the
future of the nation. Show us the schools
of people and we shall show you what the
people are.
Education is an importance ingredient in
task of nation building.
SOCIO-ECONOMIC REFORMS
Enlightenment through education was
not enough to improve the countrys
19thplight.
Century
Philippines were experiencing the
kindling of an economic awakening and
material property.
Agricultural Improvement
The economic development of the
Philippines would largely depend on
different perspective.
3 Basic Factors of Production
Land

- will remain idle without labor

Primary factor of production

Labor

- must be aided to insure profitable production

Necessary for the effective exploitation of
the rich natural resources of the country

Capital

- Necessary for the successful operation of

any business venture.
 Panot
A place along coast of Dapitan where Rizal
attempted to establish a colony.

Borneo
Another place where Rizal also attempted to
established a colony.

Rizal believed that given encouragement and

sufficient incentives, the Filipinos would work
efficiently
Incentives Proposed by Rizal

Educating the people to become skilled

farmers
Securing foreign and domestic peace, work and
homes
Encouraging reasonable taxes
Minimizing red tape in the government and
enacting just laws
Dignifying labor and giving laborers their
rightful share the fruits of production
Encouraging the use of local materials and the
use of machineries
Proving mutual protection for Filipino farmers
and traders
 While
in Dapitan he was a merchant, a
farmer, a fisherman, and a brick
manufacturer

Rizalentered into a partnership with a

Spaniard to provide Dapitan with fish. He felt
that fishing methods in Dapitan were old-
fashioned

Hesuggested to his brother-in-law Hidalgo to

buy a pukutan and to recruit fisherman I
Kalamba to be sent to Dapitan in order to
teach the people better methods of fishing.
MORAL PRINCIPLES AND TEACHINGS

Rizalbelieved that Morality

was the application of reason
and conscience to specific
problems of behavior.
Virtues of Rizal
Love
Forgiveness
Integrity
Honesty
Courage
Generosity
Purity
Faithfulness to ones word
Compassion
Self control
Temperance
Tolerance
 They may jealously guard their
honor, love their fellowmen and
their native land and do their duty
and that is it. Better to dies with
honor than live in dishonor.
Moral Man

He lives a good life and performs good

deeds.
He is capable of doing good because
God fashioned him to his image and
endowed him with the gift of reasons
and intelligence.
Non-violence revolution
Rizal was against at any form of
violence for he believe that evils are
not remedied by another evil.
Hate never produces anything but
monsters and crimes and criminals .
Love alone cam save.
 Rizal was a firm believer in God and he
dedicates his life to a noble purpose. A
service to the motherland.
He loved and honored his parents and
family.
Womanhood.
Rizal live as he wanted every Filipino to
live.
God and his country.
He loved and honored his parents and
family.
Womanhood.