As you can see, there are quite a number of things taught in school that one has to unlearn or at least correct.
Who says history is stagnant? For a historian, facts do not change; it is the way we look at things, our interpretations, that are always changing. This is what makes history exciting - that we can always find something new in what is old.
Rizal learned the right ideas at the wrong time, and for this he was shot.
Can you imagine the feeling of being an oppressed colonial being addressed respectfully by a colonizer in the mother country?
