You say that the Vice-Rector is opposed to the teaching of Castilian.

Perhaps he may be, not as to the fact but as to the form.

It is said that the Rector who is on his way will bring a project for reform in education.

Wait a while, give time a chance, apply yourself to your studies as the examinations are near, and--_carambas!_--you who already speak Castilian and express yourself easily, what are you bothering yourself about?
What interest have you in seeing it specially taught?
Surely Padre Florentino thinks as I do! Give him my regards." "My uncle," replied Isagani, "has always admonished me to think of others as much as of myself.

I didn't come for myself, I came in the name of those who are in worse condition." "What the devil! Let them do as you have done, let them singe their eyebrows studying and come to be bald like myself, stuffing whole paragraphs into their memories! I believe that if you talk Spanish it is because you have studied it--you're not of Manila or of Spanish parents! Then let them learn it as you have, and do as I have done: I've been a servant to all the friars, I've prepared their chocolate, and while with my right hand I stirred it, with the left I held a grammar, I learned, and, thank God! have never needed other teachers or academies or permits from the government.