Question

what Teodoro Agoncillo, Reynaldo Ileto, and Renato Constantino said
about history. Do you agree with them? Explain your answer.

Answer 1

I remember Agoncillo when I was asked to comment on the present or the future with the past because he said: « History is about the past, not the future. We use history to avoid the mistakes of the past, not to recreate the same events.

Renato Constantino was the Filipino historian and scholar who taught us to reexamine our colonial history, to rectify it and to learn from that past. He wanted Filipinos to have a useful memory of a past to advance the Filipino's quest for genuine nationhood.

Ileto advanced a "history from below" approach in the work, stressing the agency of the common man, and as a scholarly objective, sought for an exploration of an indigenous rationality to discover a wider "possibility of meanings" in Philippine history.

Answer 2

Answer:

• Teodoro Agoncillo said "History is about the past, not the future". We use history to avoid the mistakes of the past, not to recreate the same events.

• Reynaldo Ileto advanced a "history from below" approach in the work, stressing the agency of the common man, and as a scholarly objective, sought for an exploration of an indigenous rationality to discover a wider "possibility of meanings" in Philippine history.

• Renato Constantino opines that a history biased towards the struggles of the people is one that could free the Filipinos' consciousness from years of colonial miseducation.

• I am agree with them. their opinion do define  reality of history.