To the Young Women of Malolos

Rizal wrote these two years after he made the Noli Me Tangere to the 20 young women of Malolos who are members of the Chinese Mestizos family. This serves as an open attack to the abuse of the Friars and to encourage the Filipino women to have an education. According to Rizal, Spaniards must respect the Filipino women and treat them accordingly. The Filipino women must have their education to know the reality that Spaniards are abusing them. This is like a wake-up call to the women to fight for what is right. Rizal also wrote this for a reason that if Filipino women doesn’t have a proper education then it's like teaching their children to be the same as them. This will make the Philippines have no progress in the future. In the end, the Filipino women did have their education.


- Bedonia, Alfonso Eumir III