The document discusses the Study of Dr. Jose Rizal Course and Republic Act No. 1425, also known as the Rizal Law. It mandates the inclusion of studying Rizal's life, works, and writings in the curriculum of all schools in the Philippines. The law aims to honor Rizal and other heroes by remembering their sacrifices and instilling patriotism in students. It also describes Claro Mayo Recto as the "Father of the Rizal Law," who helped author and pass the law through the Senate and House of Representatives. Rizal was chosen as the Philippines' national hero for awakening nationalism through his writings and dying as a martyr, using non-violence and

1. The Study of Dr. Jose
Rizal Course and
Republic Act No. 1425
P R E S E N T E D B Y :
P R I N C E S S N I C O L E A Q U I N O
A L M E R A M I R A N D A
M A J E S T Y X E E N A G R E F A L
A N G E L I K A Z A L U N

2. The Study of Dr. Jose P.
Rizal Course and
Republic Act no.

3. • • Dr. Rizal Life, works, and writings has been mandated by
republic Act no.1425. Known as The Rizal Law. Approved on
June 12, 1956. To be study in curriculum of tertiary level. and
took effect on August 16,1956.
• • In July 1956, Jose P. Laurel, Claro Mayo Recto, Jose B.
Laurel Jr., Jacobo Gonzales, Lorenzo Tañada, and other
lawmakers sponsored the R.A. 1425 that would enforce the
teaching of Life of Dr. Jose P. Rizal. This is applicable in all
schools private or public. Specially to Universities and
Colleges. This includes the study of life, works, and virtues of
Dr. Jose Rizal. and his two great novels Noli Me Tangere and
El Filibusterismo.

4. The Father of Rizal Law: Claro Mayo
Recto.
• PROFILE OF CLARO MAYO RECTO.
•
• • Born: February 8, 1890 in Tiaong
Tayabas, Quezon Province.
• Died: October 2, 1960 in Rome, Italy at
the age of 70.
• Parents: Claro Recto Sr. (Rosario,
Batangas)
• Micaela Mayo. (Lipa, Batangas)
• Spouse(s): Angeles Silos and Aurora
Reyes.
• Children: Rafael Recto, Claro Recto, Nena
Recto, Jose Maria Recto, Chona Recto.

5. The Father of Rizal Law: Claro Mayo
Recto.
• • Education:
• - In 1900 - 1901,he studied latin in Instituto De Rizal, Lipa, Manila.
• - He is also Bachelor of Arts Degree Maxima Cum Laude Master of
Laws, in University of Santo Tomas.
• - Doctors Laws in Central Philippine University in 1969.
• • Position Held:
• - He is Associate of Justice in Supreme Court of the Philippines, in
1945-1946.
• - He is Senate Majority Leader in 1934-1935.
• -He is Senator in the Senate of the Philippines in 1931-1934.
• -He is also a member of House of Representative in 1919-1928.

6. • Claro Mayo Recto, he was a Filipino politician, jurist, poet, and one of the
great statement of his generation. He launched his political career as a legal
adviser to the first Philippine Senate in 1916. In 1919, he was elected
representative from the second district of Batangas. He served as a minority
floor leader for several years until 1925. He traveled to the United States as
a member of the Independence Mission and was admitted to the American
Bar in 1924. Upon His return, he founded the Partido Democrata.

7. • In 1928, he temporarily retired from active politics and dedicated himself to
the practice and teaching of law. Although he still engaged in the practice of
law, he resigned from his teaching job in 1931 and re-entered politics when
he ran and won a senate seat and was subsequently elected its majority
floor leader in 1934.
• • Recto was known as an abogado milagroso (layer of miracles), a tribute to
his many victories in the judicial court. He was appointed Associate Justice
of the Supreme Court of the Philippines in 1935 by U.S.A. President Franklin
D. Roosevelt.

8. • Recto presided over the assembly that drafted the
Philippine Constitution in 1934-1935 in
accordance with the provisions of the Tydings Mc
DuffieAct and a preliminary step to independence
and self-governance after a 10-year transitional
period.

9. • His prominence as a lawyer paralleled his fame as a writer. He was
known for his flawless logic and rationality.
• He served the wartime cabinet of President Jose P. Laurel during the
japanese occupation. Together with Jose P. Laurel, Camilo Osias,
and Quintin Paredes, he was taken into the custody by the American
colonial government and tried for treason.
• • In his defense, in his treatise entitled "Three Years of Enemy
Occupation", 1946, he convincingly presented the case of patriotic
conduct of Filipinos during World War ll. He fought his legal battles
and was acquitted.

11. THE REPUBLIC ACT NO.
1425
(RIZAL LAW)
HOUSE BILL NO. 5561
SENATE BILL NO. 438

12. • AN ACT TO INCLUDE IN THE CURRICULA OF ALL PUBLIC AND
PRIVATE SCHOOLS, COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES
COURSES ON THE LIFE, WORKS AND WRITINGS OF JOSE
RIZAL, PARTICULARLY HIS NOVELS NOLI ME TANGERE AND
EL FILIBUSTERISMO, AUTHORIZING THE PRINTING AND
DISTRIBUTION THEREOF, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES.
THE REPUBLIC ACT NO. 1425
(RIZAL LAW)

13. • WHEREAS, today, more than any other period of our history, there is a need for a re-dedication to the
ideals of freedom and nationalism for which our heroes lived and died;
• WHEREAS, it is meet that in honoring them, particularly the national hero and patriot, Jose Rizal, we
remember with special fondness and devotion their lives and works that have shaped the national
character;
• WHEREAS, the life, works and writing of Jose Rizal, particularly his novels Noli Me Tangere and El
Filibusterismo, are a constant and inspiring source of patriotism with which the minds of the youth,
especially during their formative and decisive years in school, should be suffused;
• WHEREAS, all educational institutions are under the supervision of, and subject to regulation by the
State, and all schools are enjoined to develop moral character, personal discipline, civic conscience
and to teach the duties of citizenship; Now, therefore,

14. SECTION 1
• Courses on the life, works and writings of Jose Rizal,
particularly his novel Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo,
shall be included in the curricula of all schools, colleges and
universities, public or private: Provided, That in the collegiate
courses, the original or unexpurgated editions of the Noli Me
Tangere and El Filibusterismo or their English translation shall
be used as basic texts.

15. SECTION 2
• It shall be obligatory on all schools, colleges and universities to keep
in their libraries an adequate number of copies of the original and
unexpurgated editions of the Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo,
as well as of Rizal’s other works and biography. The said
unexpurgated editions of the Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo
or their translations in English as well as other writings of Rizal shall
be included in the list of approved books for required reading in all
public or private schools, colleges and universities.

16. SECTION 3
• The Board of National Education shall cause the translation of
the Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo, as well as other
writings of Jose Rizal into English, Tagalog and the principal
Philippine dialects; cause them to be printed in cheap, popular
editions; and cause them to be distributed, free of charge, to
persons desiring to read them, through the Purok
organizations and Barrio Councils throughout the country.

17. SECTION 4
• Nothing in this Act shall be construed as amendment or
repealing section nine hundred twenty-seven of the
Administrative Code, prohibiting the discussion of religious
doctrines by public school teachers and other person engaged
in any public school.

18. SECTION 5
• The sum of three hundred thousand pesos is hereby authorized
to be appropriated out of any fund not otherwise appropriated
in the National Treasury to carry out the purposes of this Act.
SECTION 6
• This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

19. • Department of Education (DepEd) order no.2 series of 1996 directs the
committee on education for the inclusion of the Rizal course as a 3-unit with
the following aims and purposes.
• 1) The law aims and desires to re-establish that the Filipinos themselves be
imbued with the principles of freedom and sense of nationalism.
• 2) The law aims to honor the heroes particularly Dr. Jose P. Rizal enter
remind as to his sacrifices and his two novels.
• 3) the law aims to cultivate and inculcate among the students in all school
the character development, self-discipline, civic consciousness and to
teach the duties of citizenship.

20. • *On June 19, 1861, Rizal was born, as the titanic chaos
exploded on April 12, 1861, raged indignantly in the United
States over the issue of negro slavery comparing President
Abraham Lincoln to proclaim the emancipation of negro slaves
on September 22, 1862.
• * During the times of Rizal, the sinister shadows of Spanish
decadence darkened the Philippines skies. The people suffered
intensely beneath the bondage of Spanish misrule.

21. The Spanish misrule and evil
• *Instability of colonial
administration
• *Corrupt Spanish officials
• *No Philippine presentation to the
Spanish courts
• *Human rights denied to the
Filipinos
• *No equality before the law
• *Maladministration of justice
• *Racial discrimination
• *Frailocrary and secularization of Filipino
priests
• *Force labor and excessive taxes
• *Haciendas owned by friars and Spanish
officials
• *The abuses of the Guardia civil, church
official and political leaders

22. Dr. Jose P. Rizal was chosen as the greatest
Philippines National Hero
" I die without seeing the day dawning on my
country... You will see it, greet it... and forget
those who fell during the night..."
Dr. Jose P. Rizal

23. • A hero is a person admired for achievements and noble qualities and a
prominent or central personage taking an admirable action. Also, a person
of distinguished valor or enterprise in danger and an individual honored
after death by public worship because of laudable and exceptional service
to mankind.
• The difference between hero and martyr is that hero is a real person of great
bravery who carries out extraordinary deeds while martyr is one who
willingly accepts being put to death for adhering openly to one's religious
beliefs; notably saints canonized after martyrdom.

24. • Dr. Jose Protacio Rizal Mercado Y Alonso was a man of many
talents. The Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo provided the
ember that awakened Filipino nationalism and paved the way
for the Philippine Revolution of 1896. He proved that the "Pen
is Mightier than the Sword" to redeem a people from their
political slavery.

25. • Dr. Otley H. Bayer, an anthropologist and technical member of the
panel of the Philippine Commission recommended the following
criteria in choosing the national hero.
1. The person must be a Filipino.
2. The person is a peace-loving and pacifist.
3. The person must have a great sense of patriotism.
4. The person must have died for the country as a martyr.

26. Reasons why Rizal was chosen and declared
as the Philippine's National Hero.
• He was the first Filipino to unite and awaken the Filipino People to
peacefully rise for independence.
• He is a model for being a peacemaker by his complete self-denial, his
complete abandonment of his personal interest and to think only of his
country and people.
• He was a towering figure in the propaganda campaign from 1882-1896.
• He was a martyr at Bagumbayan where he willingly died for our country.

27. • The heroes of occidental nations are warriors and generals who served their cause with the
sword, distilling blood and tears. The hero of the Filipinos served his cause with the pen.
• Other countries chose their national heroes who were soldier-generals, who fought for the
country's liberty and independence in the battlefield with their mighty "sword".
• Among them were George Washington of USA, Joan of Arc of France, Simon Bolivar of
Venezuela, Jose de San Martin of Argentina, Jimmo Tenno of Japan and others.
• In comparison, Jose Rizal, the Philippine national hero was a pacifist and a civilian who
served his cause with the pen through which his writings had awakened Filipino nationalism
and paved the way for the Philippine Revolution.
• What other great men said about the pen and sword. Napoleon I who was a great
conqueror and ruler said, "There are only two powers in the world, the sword and pen; and in
the end the former is always conquered by the latter."
• Sir Thomas Browne said, "Scholars are men of Peace; they bear no arms, but their tongues
are sharper than the sword. Their pens carry further and give a louder report than thunder. I
rather stand in the shock of a basilisk than in the fury of a merciless pen".
•
Other Countries Choose Their National Hero

28. What is most admirable in Rizal
according to Rafael Palma:
• "Is his complete self-denial, his complete abandonment of his personal interest in
order to think only of those of his country. He could have been whatever he wished
to be, considering his natural endowments, he could have earned considerable sum
of money from his profession, he could have lived relatively rich, happy, prosperous,
had he not dedicated himself to public matters. He preferred to live far from his
family and to sacrifice his personal affection for an ideal he had dreamed of
following his conscience. He did not have great means at his disposal to carry out
his campaign; He contented himself with what he had. He suffered the cold winter of
Europe, hunger, privation, and misery but when he raised his eyes to heaven and
saw his ideals, his hope was reborn, he soon felt, comforted, and resumed the task
of bearing the cross of his suffering".

29. Reasons why Rizal was chosen and declared
as the Philippine's National Hero.
1. The day of his birth and day of his execution are fittingly commemorated by all classes of people throughout the country and
other Filipinos abroad.
2. No other Filipino hero can surpass Rizal in the number of monuments erected in his honor, in towns, barrios, and schools.
3. His name is a by-word in every home and his picture is printed and used in postage stamps.
4. The paper money / coins with his image have the widest circulation that the poorest of the poor can take hold.
5. Streets, boulevards, educational institutions, and persons were named 'Rizal’.
6. His by speakers. Noble thoughts and teachings had been frequently invoked and quoted
7. The union of Manila and Morong to be a province was named after the illustrious Filipino hero thus the Rizal province was
established.

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