Personal Interview with Catherine Hartigan-Go, Audio Clip 8

Personal Interview with Catherine Hartigan-Go, Audio Clip 8

In this audio clip, the interviewee reflects on the total importance of teaching Noli Me Tángere correctly and comprehensively in schools. She expounds that, if it is taught in a way that makes students feel the weight of the story, it will become a story that students carry with them for the rest of their lives.

Catherine Hartigan-Go

Kaylee Hartigan-Go

Personal conversation between Catherine Hartigan-Go and Kaylee Hartigan-Go

Kaylee Hartigan-Go

November 20, 2020

Kaylee Hartigan-Go

Catherine Hartigan-Go

Audio file (mp3)

English

Manila, Philippines

Audio file (mp3)

47 seconds

Catherine:
If they teach it right, it's pretty hard to take it for granted. Well, if they're going to teach it like that, in a rush in half a year —

Kaylee:
[0:11] It’s easy to forget.

Catherine:
[0:14] If you don't — if you don’t feel the full weight of the story, it's easy to just say, ‘Oh, well, that's just a story.’ If you really inhabit that world, and you see how your countrymen were oppressed at that time — it's very hard to forget that story. So they should continue teaching it in full and in detail.

Kaylee Hartigan-Go

Catherine Hartigan-Go

Manila, Philippines