MILA, GLENDA A.
BTLED-AFA, 1st Year
ASSESSMENT
Demonstrate the value you’ve afforded to education and/or patriotism in an output that ensures
the inclusion of any of Rizal’s views and principles evident in his two serialized essays: The
Philippines a Century Hence and The Indolence of the Filipino. You may opt for one view or one
principle from each title but what’s imperative is that, both are represented in the output.
The Philippines a Century Hence
Education and liberty are necessary to human existence are denied by Spain to the Filipinos, then
they will seek enlightenment abroad, behind the mother country’s back, or they will secure by
hook or by crook some advantages in their own country, with the result that the opposition of
purblind and paretic politicians will not only be futile but even prejudicial, because it will convert
motives for love and gratitude into resentment and hatred. Without education and liberty, which
are the soil and the sun of man, no reform is possible, no measure can give the result desired. It
is to be expected that the government will triumph and be generally severe in punishment, either
to teach a stern lesson in order to vaunt its strength or even to revenge upon the vanquished the
spells of excitement and terror that the danger caused it. If the Philippines must remain under the
control of Spain, they will necessarily have to be transformed in a political sense, for the course
of their history and the needs of their inhabitants so require.
The Indolence of the Filipino
The system of education offered by the colonizers was impractical as it was mainly about
repetitive prayers and had nothing to do with agricultural and industrial technology. Filipinos’
indolence was the outcome of the circumstances forced upon the natives rather than an inherent
characteristic. Spanish government failed to encourage industry by granting economic and moral
incentives, the Filipinos themselves were likewise flawed. The lack or defect in education as well
as the dearth of national sentiment observed among the natives are contributing factors to the
sustained existence of tendency towards indolence. it is only through education and freedom that
efforts to reform the Filipinos would be successful further suggesting that while the Filipinos’
indolence is not an inherent characteristic but a malady caused by numerous circumstances and
it can certainly be cured.