by José S. Arcilla, S. J.
http://www.admu.edu.ph/files/212/07_Arcilla.pdf
History is not a popular subject in the schools. Perhaps we can add that, unless forced, no student will sign up for it. Fortunately, deans and professors look at it differently. In this way, they are like Rizal who spent several months in the British Museum in London annotating Antonio de Morga’s Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas, hoping to “awaken an awareness of our past, blotted till now from our memory, and rectify past calumnies and falsifications . . . [so] we can dedicate ourselves to the study of the future.”1
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