Nov. 13 2016, 2:04 p.m. – THOMASIANS were urged to take an interest in history during the memorial lecture for the late scholar Florentino Hornedo at the Thomas Aquinas Research Complex last Nov. 12.
“Learn history. Understand it to understand the people that we meet. Understand that the Philippines is in much motion. We move now from province to province. Customs are changing and we must adapt,” Margarita Cojuangco, a former student and colleague of Hornedo, told the Varsitarian.
“There may be a majority and minority in customs but if we understand each other through history knowing that we all have to live together for our families, our country then it will be a better understanding of our fellow men,” she said.
Margarita “Tingting” Cojuangco speaking during the memorial lecture for the late scholar Florentino Hornedo at the Thomas Aquinas Research Complex. (Photo by Maria Charisse Ann G. Refuerzo)
Nov. 13 2016, 2:04 p.m. – THOMASIANS were urged to take an interest in history during the memorial lecture for the late scholar Florentino Hornedo at the Thomas Aquinas Research Complex last Nov. 12.
“Learn history. Understand it to understand the people that we meet. Understand that the Philippines is in much motion. We move now from province to province. Customs are changing and we must adapt,” Margarita Cojuangco, a former student and colleague of Hornedo, told the Varsitarian.
“There may be a majority and minority in customs but if we understand each other through history knowing that we all have to live together for our families, our country then it will be a better understanding of our fellow men,” she said.
Cojuangco narrated her 1991 immersion in Sulu and Tawi-tawi with Hornedo. She noted the provinces’ low level of educational attainment, which has not changed in 25 years.
“Education is so important and we should encourage lecturers to go there to explain what history is like [and] how great their history is, so that they [will] have pride [in themselves],” Cojuangco said.
Augusto de Viana, head of the UST History Department, lauded Hornedo for engaging both professors and students into taking up historical and cultural studies.
“He is the ultimate scholar. As a person, he [was] always open to new ideas,” he said. “He would always look into the past to find meaning about our present and our future.”
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