Stories of Great Filipinos by Francisco and Conrado BenitezStories of Great Filipinos (1925) by Francisco and Conrado Benitez is a school reader of 30 Filipino biographical sketches, from Princess Urduja of Pangasinan to the nationalist generation of Rizal and Bonifacio, written in accessible English to give Filipino children the heroes their curriculum had failed to provide. A quiet act of resistance from two UP educators, published under the colonial language it was gently arguing against.