Best 10 quotes of Ambeth R. Ocampo on MyQuotes

As you can see, there are quite a number of things taught in school that one has to unlearn or at least correct.

Filipinos are not a reading people, and despite the compulsory course on the life and works of Rizal today, from the elementary to the university levels, it is accepted that the 'Noli me Tangere' and 'El Filibusterismo' are highly regarded but seldom read (if not totally ignored). Therefore one asks, how can unread novels exert any influence?

I guess if you go around with famous people you are assured of some reflected (or deflected) glory.

It is ironic that many Filipinos learn to love the Philippines while abroad, not at home.

School made us 'literate' but did not teach us to read for pleasure.

Who says history is stagnant? For a historian, facts do not change; it is the way we look at things, our interpretations, that are always changing. This is what makes history exciting - that we can always find something new in what is old.

If there was anyone ma-porma during the Fil-American War, it was Heneral Goyo.

...make your children unhappy so they can face the world, but then, what is a world without children's laughter?

These Filipinos will be your worst enemies if you commit the imprudence of attacking the Spaniards without the necessary preparation.

You are like a garbage man, what will you do with my life story? Para kang nangangalakal ng basura!