Why is there a need for Filipinos to study the life works and writings of Jose Rizal?

There is a great, vital need to study the works and life of Rizal. He is our greatest national hero, others described him as "the first greatest filipino." He was a genuis and the Pride of the Malayan race. He was a poet, doctor, architect, businessman, educator, economist, historian, inventor, musician, psychologist, sculptor, sociologist, opthalmic surgeon, physicist and many more. He was a traveller and mastered 22 languages and has published many of his works with the highly nationalistic and revolutionary tendencies with the hope of securing political and social reforms in the Philippines during the Spanish era.

Noli Me Tangere is one of his books published in Berlin in 1877 which exposed the arrogance and despotism by the Spanish clergy and EL FILIBUSTERISMO as a sequel and more tragic than the NOLI was published on September 1891 in Ghent.He was fearless and stirred the political arena which resulted to his imprisonement. He was a political exile and even then it did not stop him from writing and teaching. Before his execution in Dec 30, 1896, he wrote an untitled poem which now known "ULTIMO ADiOS", a masterpiece.

Rizal and His Works has been included in the curriculum by the Department of Education because his life and works inspire Filipinos, to be proud of their motherland and native-tongue, to prove that Filipinos are capable to be equal if not Excel even to those who treat us as slave. His brilliance,determination, patience and perseverance are just few of his virtues whom , us, Filipinos admired and undyingly refered to whenever we are in the lowest low.