National strength comes from the character of its people. A nation is composed of its citizens, so a nation cannot be stronger than the sum of its parts. A great nation is made up of people who are vigorous, healthy, courteous, brave, industrious, self-reliant, purposeful, patriotic, righteous, with high social ideals and strong moral values. The author wants Filipinos to be like the molave tree - strong, resilient, and confident in their own strength so they are not regarded as passive but are a flowing stream full of life, hope, and strength.

1. Grow & Be Like the
Molave

2. SPELLINGWORDS
1.vigorous
2.patriotism
3.chasms
4.virile
5.breadth

3. Grow & Be Like the
Molave

4. The Author
Manuel Luis Quezon y Molina
(Aug 19, 1878- Aug 1, 1944)
was the first Filipino to head
government of the entire
Philippines and is considered
to be the second president of
the country after Emilio
Aguinaldo.

5. MolaveTree

6. Grow & Be Like the
Molave

7. National strength can only be
built on character. A nation is
nothing more or less than its
citizenry. It is the people that
make up a nation and, therefore
a nation cannot be stronger than
its component parts.Their
weakness is its failings, their
strength its power.

8. Show me a people composed of
vigorous, sturdy individuals of men and
women healthy in mind and body,
courteous, brave, industrious, self-
reliant, and purposeful in thoughts as
well as in actions, imbued with sound
patriotism and a profound sense of
righteousness, with high social ideals
and strong moral fibers-and I will show
you a great nation that will not be
submerged.
1.healthy mind
2.courteous
3. brave
4.industrious
5.self- reliant
6.purposeful
7. patriotic
8.righteous
9.with social ideals
10.with strong moral
fibers
What
characteristics
of people
make up a
great
nation?

9. A nation that will emerge
victorious from trials and bitter
strife of a destructed world. A
nation that will live forever,
sharing the common task and
advancing the welfare and
promoting the happiness of
mankind.

10. The upward climb of mankind has
been universal. In the human
landscape, there are peaks and
valleys, and deep chasms.
Generally, there is a need for
potent social upheavals, volcanic
in proportions, to raise the lower
levels to grow at heights.

14. The battle for existence and the
survival of the fittest has ever the
rule of life, in nature and among
men.
It is a heroic task to awaken and
apply these faculties so that our
people should become what
rightly they should be: morally
virile, refined, persevering, public-
spirited.
morally virile
refined
persevering
public-
spirited
What
should
we be?

18. I want our people to grow
and be like the molave,
strong and resilient,
unafraid of the raging
flood, the lightning or the
storm, confident of its own
strength.

20. We are Orientals. Orientals
are known for their passivity
and placidity. In the world of
humanity, we look upon a
quiet lake from which
adventures and enterprising
may reap enjoyment and
gain. I refuse to allow
Filipinos to be so regarded.

21. We shall be a flowing stream, a rippling brook,
a deep and roaring torrent full of life, of hope,
of faith and of strength.Through self-
discipline, we shall harness all our energies so
that our power spreading over the length and
breadth of this land will develop its resources,
advance its culture, promote social justice and
secure happiness and contentment to all the
people under the aegis of liberty and peace.

22. QUIZ # 3

23. Grow & Be Like the
Molave

24. 1.What is the title of the text?
2.Who is the author of the selection?
3.According to the writer, what tree should
we be?
4.Who makes up or composes a nation?
5.On the selection, what was mentioned as
the rule of life, in nature and among men?
6-10. List down the characteristics of people
that make up a good nation.