history of the filipino people by teodoro agoncillo

Because of this, as an Asian, the time is always the present not changing. In reply, Agoncillo said that this is the reason why the responsibility of a historian is difficult because Filipinos are not history conscious. Sionel Jose, the national artist for literature, said that there is a problem with Agoncillos way of thinking because not all the events that had taken place in history are documented and many of them are alive today because of oral history.

But Agoncillo still believed that the goal of historian was to write what really happened in the country based on historical documents. Agoncillo to Filipinos and thePhilippines.Īccording to a retired professor from the Department of History of the Philippines, the publication of Agoncillos interview in 1995 brought to the surface the wound that have been healed already. The three day interview was published in 2011 and given the title ofTalking History: Conversations with Teodoro A.Agoncillo.The book became a valuable source in the study of the life, times and legacy of Professor Teodoro A. Because of this, when that interview was published, the controversy continued and became more volatile. The point of view that Agoncillo used in the interpretation of Philippine history continued until the middle of 1980 when he agreed to have an interview with Ambeth Ocampo, whose aim in the three days interview was to get the spontaneous answers of Agoncillo to his questions. But if the one selling his rights is an educated man, it is sad because instead of becoming the symbol of integrity and discipline he became the symbol of what is rotten in our society. If we see an illiterate man who is selling his rights for a small token fee we are not surprise because that person is ignorant and has no knowledge of his rights. For him nationalism is not only on looking after our own, but also in the selection of people who would run the government, people whose goals in life was not to make them rich and acquire power to serve their own interest.

History of the filipino people by teodoro agoncillo