December 28, 2007 - The second and last day of the National Seminar-Workshop on Rizal's Virtues and Idealisms kicked-off at the College of Education Function Hall, Jose Rizal Memorial State College, Main Campus which revolved on issues illustrating the real Filipinos from the past to the present.
A continuance of the lectures resumed through the expertise of three quick-witted speakers who proficiently expanded the tenets of Rizal and his life.
The first fore of the seminar which started exactly 8:00 a.m. deconstruct the metaphors of selected characters in Rizal's classic novels and their applicability on the Filipino's moral values in the new millennium. This concern has been drawn-out by Prof. Ailyn Kindipan of the Philippine Military Academy (PMA) based in Baguio City.
The second focus of the seminar dealt on Rizal's philosophy of education which was taken as a challenge to reform the Philippine educational system. After the discussion of the aforementioned, interaction took place as the queries of the participants were given way in an Open Forum where Professor Kindipan actively answered all the questions adjacent to the lecture. She stressed that the characters introduced and enlivened in the classic novels of Rizal such as the immortal Noli Me Tangere and the El Filibusterismo were actually Jose Rizal himself and that it pointed to lay bare the utmost values of Filipinos.
Participation continued as the partakers stood to ask the significance of living with the idealisms of Rizal for the new millennium.
Meanwhile, a participant queried and simultaneously suggested Rizal courses and subjects to be taught three hours or so, but according to the speaker, students nowadays are only interested in listening at a very limited length of time between thirty to forty minutes, therefore the mere suggestion of converting class hours of subjects for Rizal into three hours would be null considering the possible turn-out.
After the lunch break, the seminar immediately recommenced with Dr. Henry L. Galuba, former Professor of PMA Baguio City as the presenter for the third topic of the workshop seminar.
Dr. Galuba chatted on the characteristics, values and priorities of the Filipino youth in the current milieu as a challenge to Rizal's idealisms as well as the second topic for the afternoon which entangled re-engineering of Philippine education through appropriate integration of Rizal's ideas and ideals in the curriculum towards the making of an unbound Filipino generation.
Dr. Galuba expounded that learners may be categorized into three types relative to their intelligence: visual; auditory and kinesthetic and that the agenda to be constituted in order to gain excellence are: to learn into wit, see, feel, think, communicate, communicate appropriately, learning to do and to lead most importantly. He further introduced a taxonomy of significant learning which breaks into: foundational learning; application; integration; human dimensions and caring.
Dr. Galuba notified "We are in the year of 2007, but, we are depicting the curriculum of 1947" an implication he saw as the explanation why Filipinos submerged in the underdevelopments of education and teaching instruction. He defined reengineering as an act of fundamental rethinking and radical redesign of processes to achieve improvements in critical, contemporary measures of performance, such as equity, quality, service and accessibility and that it must begin with the teaching and learning processes to harness its potentials.
Meanwhile, the last subject matter was discussed by one of the heirs of Rizal's student Jose Aseniero, who was Dr. George Aseniero, a proud settler of Dapitan.
Dr. Aseniero was talking on reconstructing the contents of the Rizal course towards achieving comprehensive learning demanded in the new millennium. He expounded that the use of books like those explaining the biography of Dr. Rizal, lecture methods particularly those which were largely usefull to the thorough misunderstanding of Rizal's life during his time.
Dr. Aseniero also touched on "Dr. Ferdinand Blumentritt and his correspondence with Dr. Rizal", the second biography of Rizal available only in Spanish language with Wenceslao Retana and Frank Lobak, a Spanish writer-journalist as its authors. He described Rizal as a victim of Spainish tyranny. The seminar - workshop finally ended at 7:00 a.m. for the dinner.
A closing program was slated on the following day, December 29, 2007.
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