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The Role of The YOUTH

Rizal believed that youth have an instrumental role in nation building. He saw youth as the hope of the motherland and called on them to dedicate their talents and enthusiasm to improving society and washing away shame and crimes. The document discusses Rizal's view that each moment of a youth's life should be used to contemplate how to benefit the greater good and move society forward from the struggles of past generations.

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The Role of The YOUTH

Rizal believed that youth have an instrumental role in nation building. He saw youth as the hope of the motherland and called on them to dedicate their talents and enthusiasm to improving society and washing away shame and crimes. The document discusses Rizal's view that each moment of a youth's life should be used to contemplate how to benefit the greater good and move society forward from the struggles of past generations.

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The role of the YOUTH

ANG KABATAAN AY PAG-


ASA NG BAYAN
OBJECTIVES
At the end of the lesson, the students should be able to
1. Compare the various types of youth Rizal had to
deal with;
2. Identify the qualities of youth; and
3.Relate how the youth is instrumental in nation
building
"Every generation believes
it is greater than the one
before it."
The generation of Rizal was not exempted
from this as well. People in Rizal's
generation believed that they had the means
and resources to travel, study abroad, and
meet different people.
 Little did they know that their generation
would become instrumental in the reforms
and revolution at the end of the 19th
century.
They were old enough to have seen or
indirectly learn about the martyrdom of the
three priests, Father Mariano Gomez, Jose
Burgos, and Jacinto Zamora.
The role of the youth in finding out their
place in society is undeniably instrumental
in the formation of a nation as they grapple
with their identities in the midst of
numerous distractions they face.
This lesson looks into the youthful stage of
Rizal and follows the development of how he
devised the ideal image of the hope of the
motherland

The most rebellious and creative years are


during youth. Yet a majority of world history is
closely associated with the contribution of the
youth because of their dedication to a cause.
In Europe, where they pursued greater studies, Rizal
and his compatriots indulged in learning and a little
pleasure from time to time.
The primary reason for being there was to learn what
Europe had to offer. From the various fields of arts,
sciences, medicine, engineering and law, they never
forgot to indulge in different pleasures such as
women, operas, parties, and expositions.
The convivialities of youth where parents' hopes rested
upon, were tested when it came to their rather conceived
independence. Yet, not all of them became busy with the
fancy; instead, a few kept their eyes on the goal.
Rizal became one such beacon amidst the darkness He
occupied himself with his writings, studies, and even to a
point of organization building.
 He thirsted for learning and his hunger to align himself
with like-minded individuals made him to stay focused on
the goal. It was during this time that he met his fellow
reformers and even some of his fellow scholars in various
universities.
In the last chapter of his second novel, El
Filibusterismo, Rizal had a message to a specific
group of people who held the key to the nation's
future. It was from the lips of an old hermit of a
priest, Padre Florentino, that Rizal evoked his
longing for a generation that would open its minds to
the realities of society, Padre Florentino cried out
with the following lines:
"Where are the youth who will consecrate their golden
hours, their illusions. and enthusiasm for the welfare of
their country? Where are they who would generously shed
their blood to wash away so much shame, so much crime,
so much abomination? Pure and spotless the victim has to
be for the holocaust to be acceptable!... Where are you,
youth, who will incarnate in yourselves the vigor of life that
has fled from our veins, the purity of ideas that have been
seiled in our minds and the fire of enthusiasm that has been
extinguished in our hearts?...We wait for you, O youth!
Come, for we await you!"
The call from beyond the grave maybe a bit eerie;
nonetheless, this call resonated throughout the past
century. Rizal, immortalized in his novels, spoke to a
generation of Filipinos to carry on the task of
fulfilling their duty of improving the nation from
their forebears.
 His standards of the youth as being pure and noble
were for something worthy of the country.
Each moment the youth dreams, it must be for the
good of the nation.
 They fulfill their duties to their parents by
performing well in school and this is reflective not
only of the grades received but also of the critical
thinking they do.
 Doing their obligation as learners moment by
moment reflects their obedience to duties.
Every minute of their waking hour must be
deliberate, aiming for something greater than them.
They must not look at themselves with a sense of
entitlement, but rather with deep regard for others.
 As they look upon the state of their community.
society, and nation, they see themselves as either a
contributor to endless mayhem or a world changer
much like what Rizal envisioned them to be.
For more than three centuries, Spain dominated the
Philippines, producing subjects in their likeness.
Rizal wanted to break free from that mindset.
As Filipinos living in a democratic and sovereign
nation now, the youth experiences and enjoys what
Rizal did not.
They are now benefitting from the struggle of their
forebears and each must continue to deliver
advancements for the nation.
The role of the YOUTH

ANG KABATAA
N AY PAG-ASA
NG BAYAN
ACTIVITY

Being a youth in today’s


generation, how will you show
your love for our country and
give importance to our freedom
and peace?

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