Can you imagine the feeling of being an oppressed colonial being addressed respectfully by a colonizer in the mother country?

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

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

It’s bad enough . . . when a country gets colonized, but when the people do as well! That’s the end, really, that’s the end.

For freedom would not be easy. It never is. It would be more difficult for the Philippines than for many countries, because we had to face the fact that the islands, although potentially rich, had not tapped their resources. We were a poor country and a small one, and we could not afford to be hurled unprepared into competition with countries larger and richer and more powerful and far better trained. The Tydings-McDuffie Act means we could prepare.

Every colonial nation carries carries the seeds of a fascist temptation in its bossom. What is fascism if not a regime of oppression for the benefit of a few