Prudence

For Reasons Of Delicacy I Have Suppressed My Correspondence. Prudence is the virtue that guides our mind in choosing the best means of a accomplishing a thing. It directs us to the most polite and profitable course of action. It guides all other virtues because it points out the mean between excess and defect in the other virtues. If we do not practice prudence, we are liable to folly and excess.

Thrift
I Economize. Thrift is the virtue of being economical in the use of material, money, time, and energy. Rizal practiced the habit of thrift. When he was a student in Madrid, Spain he would have his shoes repaired instead of buying new ones. Now and then he economized in food expense. When the Paterno brothers wanted him to join the Ateneo de Madrid, a cultural society , he turned down the suggestions saying, I find the dues a little exorbitant.

Gratitude
I am very grateful. When a person shows gratefulness, he has a grateful nature. Rizal s gratitude to his parents, relatives, and friends is an inspiring thing. During his stay In Heidelberg, Germany, in 1886, Rizal learned of Ferdinand Blumentritt s interest in the study of Philippine languages. He sent Blumentritt a copy of a tagalog book, Aritmetika, written by Rufino Baltazar Hernandez in 1868. Blumentritts grateful response was to send two of his own books. Rizal immediately offered his services in a letter of thanks to Blumentritt.

Living By Example
Gladly I Depart To Expose Myself To Danger To Confirm With My Example What I Have Always Preached. Rizal s examples on idealism, charity, and surrender are inspiring. The events showing his love for country and people and dedication to duty are worth-while imitating. All of his virtues will run through the veins of every Filipino s forever.

Rizal s Educational Legacies for Today s Society

The Right To Education Is A Fundamental Human Right.
One of the conditions essential to the progress of civilization is raising the educational level of the community. The right to education is now enshrined in the historic Universal Declaration of Human Rights to which the Philippines is one of the 48 original signatories

The right to education is recognized as a human right and is understood to establish an entitlement to free, compulsory primary education for all children, an obligation to develop secondary education accessible to all children, as well as equitable access to higher education, and a responsibility to provide basic education for individuals who have not completed primary education. In addition to this access to education provisions the right to education to eliminate discrimination at all levels of the educational system, to set minimum standards and to improve quality. (read what is written in the book.)

The Values of Education According To Rizal

Our government is committed to giving everyone an opportunity to get an education because it promotes individual and national progress. His educational views are timely for us who are engaged in building a new social order. A summary of his thoughts follows: Wise education is the mother of virtues. where the youth are wisely educated, they become vigorous and their ideas are exalted (read the other parts in the book) Wise education lights the living flame of virtue (read) When education is complete and true, there is no human suffering we cannot overcome.(read)

One Who Would Teach Should Be Better Than The Persons Who Need Her Learning.
The role of teachers and professors in carrying out the educational philosophy of Rizal is the third step worthwhile considering. in many of his letters and writings, Rizal gave many thought-provoking educational thoughts that are timely. In El Filibusterismo, Rizal pointed out the moral responsibility of the teacher or professor. (Read in the book page131) The good teacher or professor must have an honorable personality in order to command respect from the pupils or students. (Read) And the best teacher must be one who teaches by example what she teaches. Like teacher, like pupil, wrote Rizal in depending the Filipinos from the charge of indolence.

Make Study A Thing Of Love And Joy.

The relation between the pupils and the teacher or professor must be harmonious and be based on respect for human dignity.

The teacher, wrote Rizal, should cultivate in the children confidence, assurance, and personal pride.

I Saw Truth Where I Had Formerly Seen Only Error.

In his Noli Me Tangere, rizal pointed to the self-examination done by the teacher who was desirous of improving his method of teaching.(book)

Rizal s Intellectual Legacy in Selected Poems Sa Aking Mga Kababata- it pointed out the nationalistic significance of the mother tongue in the life
of our people.

Kapagka ang baya'y sadyng umiibig Sa kanyng salitng kaloob ng langit, Sanglang kalayaan nasa ring masapit Katulad ng ibong nasa himpapawid. Pagka't ang salita'y isang kahatulan Sa bayan, sa nayo't mga kaharin, At ang isng tao'y katulad, kabagay Ng alin mang likha noong kalayan. Ang hindi magmahal sa kanyang salit Mahigit sa hayop at malansng isd, Kay ang marapat pagyamaning kus Na tulad sa inng tunay na nagpal. Ang wikang Tagalog tulad din sa Latin Sa Ingls, Kastil at salitang anghel, Sapagka't ang Poong maalam tumingn Ang siyang naggawad, nagbigay sa atin. Ang salita nati'y huwad din sa iba Na may alfabeto at sariling letra, Na kaya nawal'y dinatnan ng sigw Ang lunday sa law nong dakong una.

Education Gives Luster To The Motherland rizal was already aware of his motherland and love of country was also awakened in him at his early age. rizal hoped his countrymen to seek knowledge in order to live a life of enlightenment which would make the country rise to the highest of honor and prestige.
(Source: Rizaliana Site) Wise education, vital breath Inspires an enchanting virtue; She puts the Country in the lofty seat Of endless glory, of dazzling glow, And just as the gentle aura's puff Do brighten the perfumed flower's hue: So education with a wise, guiding hand, A benefactress, exalts the human band. Man's placid repose and earthly life To education he dedicates Because of her, art and science are born Man; and as from the high mount above The pure rivulet flows, undulates, So education beyond measure Gives the Country tranquility secure. Where wise education raises a throne Sprightly youth are invigorated, Who with firm stand error they subdue And with noble ideas are exalted; It breaks immortality's neck, Contemptible crime before it is halted: It humbles barbarous nations And it makes of savages champions. And like the spring that nourishes The plants, the bushes of the meads, She goes on spilling her placid wealth, And with kind eagerness she constantly feeds, The river banks through which she slips, And to beautiful nature all she concedes,

So whoever procures education wise Until the height of honor may rise. From her lips the waters crystalline Gush forth without end, of divine virtue, And prudent doctrines of her faith The forces weak of evil subdue, That break apart like the whitish waves That lash upon the motionless shoreline: And to climb the heavenly ways the people Do learn with her noble example. In the wretched human beings' breast The living flame of good she lights The hands of criminal fierce she ties, And fill the faithful hearts with delights, Which seeks her secrets beneficient And in the love for the good her breast she incites, And it's th' education noble and pure Of human life the balsam sure. And like a rock that rises with pride In the middle of the turbulent waves When hurricane and fierce Notus roar She disregards their fury and raves, That weary of the horror great So frightened calmly off they stave; Such is one by wise education steered He holds the Country's reins unconquered. His achievements on sapphires are engraved; The Country pays him a thousand honors; For in the noble breasts of her sons Virtue transplanted luxuriant flow'rs; And in the love of good e'er disposed Will see the lords and governors The noble people with loyal venture Christian education always procure. And like the golden sun of the morn Whose rays resplendent shedding gold, And like fair aurora of gold and red She overspreads her colors bold; Such true education proudly gives

The pleasue of virtue to young and old And she enlightens out Motherland dear As she offers endless glow and luster.

TO THE FILIPINO YOUTH (A La Juventud Filipina) -Like his poem Unfold, oh timid flower! Lift up your radiant brow, This day, Youth of my native strand! Your abounding talents show Resplendently and grand, Fair hope of my Motherland! Soar high, oh genius great, And with noble thoughts fill their mind; The honors glorious seat, May their virg*n mind fly and find More rapidly than the wind. Descend with the pleasing light Of the arts and sciences to the plain, Oh Youth, and break forthright The links of the heavy chain That your poetic genius enchain. See that in the ardent zone, The Spaniard, where shadows stand, Doth offer a shining crown, With wise and merciful hand To the son of this Indian land. You, who heavenward rise On wings of your rich fantasy, Seek in the Olympian skies The tenderest poesy, More sweet than divine honey;

You of heavenly harmony, On a calm unperturbed night, Philomels match in melody, That in varied symphony Dissipate mans sorrows blight; You at thimpulse of your mind The hard rock animate And your mind with great powr consigned Transformed into immortal state The pure memry of genius great; And you, who with magic brush On canvas plain capture The varied charm of Phoebus, Loved by the divine Apelles, And the mantle of Nature; Run! For genius sacred flame Awaits the artists crowning Spreading far and wide the fame Throughout the sphere proclaiming With trumpet the mortals name Oh, joyful, joyful day, The Almighty blessed be Who, with loving eagerness Sends you luck and happiness.

To the flowers of heidelberg

Go to my country, go, O foreign flowers, sown by the traveler along the road, and under that blue heaven that watches over my loved ones, recount the devotion the pilgrim nurses for his native sod! Go and say say that when dawn opened your chalices for the first time beside the icy Neckar, you saw him silent beside you, thinking of her constant vernal clime. Say that when dawn which steals your aroma was whispering playful love songs to your young sweet petals, he, too, murmured canticles of love in his native tongue; that in the morning when the sun first traces

the topmost peak of Koenigssthul in gold and with a mild warmth raises to life again the valley, the glade, the forest, he hails that sun, still in its dawning, that in his country in full zenith blazes. And tell of that day when he collected you along the way among the ruins of a feudal castle, on the banks of the Neckar, or in a forest nook. Recount the words he said as, with great care, between the pages of a worn-out book he pressed the flexible petals that he took. Carry, carry, O flowers, my love to my loved ones, peace to my country and its fecund loam, faith to its men and virtue to its women, health to the gracious beings that dwell within the sacred paternal home. When you reach that shore, deposit the kiss I gave you on the wings of the wind above that with the wind it may rove and I may kiss all that I worship, honor and love! But O you will arrive there, flowers, and you will keep perhaps your vivid hues; but far from your native heroic earth to which you owe your life and worth, your fragrances you will lose! For fragrance is a spirit that never can forsake and never forgets the sky that saw its birth.

My Last Farewell
Farewell, dear Fatherland, clime of the sun caress'd, Pearl of the Orient seas, our Eden lost! Gladly now I go to give thee this faded life's best, And were it brighter, fresher, or more blest, Still would I give it thee, nor count the cost. On the field of battle, 'mid the frenzy of fight, Others have given their lives, without doubt or heed; The place matters not--cypress or laurel or lily white, Scaffold of open plain, combat or martyrdom's plight, 'Tis ever the same, to serve our home and country's need. I die just when I see the dawn break, Through the gloom of night, to herald the day; And if color is lacking my blood thou shalt take, Pour'd out at need for thy dear sake, To dye with its crimson the waking ray. My dreams, when life first opened to me, My dreams, when the hopes of youth beat high, Were to see thy lov'd face, O gem of the Orient sea, From gloom and grief, from care and sorrow free; No blush on thy brow, no tear in thine eye Dream of my life, my living and burning desire, All hail! cries the soul that is now to take flight; All hail! And sweet it is for thee to expire; To die for thy sake, that thou mayst aspire; And sleep in thy bosom eternity's long night.

If over my grave some day thou seest grow, In the grassy sod, a humble flower, Draw it to thy lips and kiss my soul so, While I may feel on my brow in the cold tomb below The touch of thy tenderness, thy breath's warm power. Let the moon beam over me soft and serene, Let the dawn shed over me its radiant flashes, Let the wind with sad lament over me keen; And if on my cross a bird should be seen, Let it trill there its hymn of peace to my ashes. Let the sun draw the vapors up to the sky, And heavenward in purity bear my tardy protest; Let some kind soul o'er my untimely fate sigh, And in the still evening a prayer be lifted on high From thee, O my country, that in God I may rest. Pray for all those that hapless have died, For all who have suffered the unmeasur'd pain; For our mothers that bitterly their woes have cried, For widows and orphans, for captives by torture tried; And then for thyself that redemption thou mayst gain. And when the dark night wraps the graveyard around, With only the dead in their vigil to see; Break not my repose or the mystery profound, And perchance thou mayst hear a sad hymn resound; 'Tis I, O my country, raising a song unto thee. When even my grave is remembered no more, Unmark'd by never a cross nor a stone; Let the plow sweep through it, the spade turn it o'er, That my ashes may carpet thy earthly floor, Before into nothingness at last they are blown. Then will oblivion bring to me no care, As over thy vales and plains I sweep; Throbbing and cleansed in thy space and air, With color and light, with song and lament I fare, Ever repeating the faith that I keep. My Fatherland ador'd, that sadness to my sorrow lends,

Beloved Filipinas, hear now my last good-by! I give thee all: parents and kindred and friends; For I go where no slave before the oppressor bends, Where faith can never kill, and God reigns e'er on high! Farewell to you all, from my soul torn away, Friends of my childhood in the home dispossessed! Give thanks that I rest from the wearisome day! Farewell to thee, too, sweet friend that lightened my way; Beloved creatures all, farewell! In death there is rest!