Miguel Syjuco Quotes:
Ocupation: Writer
Life: b. November 17, 1976
Birthday: November 17
Fiction is a very powerful tool for teaching history. The Philippines was the first Iraq, the first Vietnam, the first Afghanistan, in the sense that it was the United States initial or baptismal experience in nation-building.
source: "Author Q&A: Miguel Syjuco revisits the Philippines' troubled past in Ilustrado". Interview with Brian Lynch, www.straight.com. October 28, 2010. 
topic: Powerful, Teaching, Iraq, Teaching History, Nation Building
