Rizal learned the right ideas at the wrong time, and for this he was shot. - Ambeth R. Ocampo - Quotesmemo.com

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I had a pretty poor self-image for a long time. I broke into acting as a model in New York. I was never anything like a "supermodel," but I made a living at it for a couple years. The thing was, I was convinced that I was tricking everyone into thinking I was attractive.

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Ambeth R. Ocampo

Rizal learned the right ideas at the wrong time, and for this he was shot.

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As you can see, there are quite a number of things taught in school that one has to unlearn or at least correct.

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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.

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It is ironic that many Filipinos learn to love the Philippines while abroad, not at home.

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School made us 'literate' but did not teach us to read for pleasure.

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Filipinos are not a reading people, and despite the compulsory course on the life and works of Rizal today, from the elementary to the university levels, it is accepted that the 'Noli me Tangere' and 'El Filibusterismo' are highly regarded but seldom read (if not totally ignored). Therefore one asks, how can unread novels exert any influence?

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