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. T…

- Ambeth R. Ocampo

Rizal learned the right ideas at the wrong time, and for this he was shot.

- Ambeth R. Ocampo

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 lev…

- Ambeth R. Ocampo

A historian can never claim to have the last word on anything as he is limited by his sources and further so by his viewpoint.

- Ambeth R. Ocampo

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

- Ambeth R. Ocampo

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

- Ambeth R. Ocampo

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

- Ambeth R. Ocampo

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

- Ambeth R. Ocampo

Sometimes it pays not to be interested in what happened but in what did not happen.

- Ambeth R. Ocampo