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

"Sometimes it pays not to be interested in what happened but in what did not happen."

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

"Is history repeating itself? Not really, we are the ones repeating history."

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

"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 interpretati…"

"A historian can never claim to have the last word on anything as he is limited by his sources and further so by his v…"

"Rizal's greatest misfortune is being national hero of the Philippines."

"Reading gives us the furniture of our minds. Reading can spell the difference between independence and slavery; liber…"