RIZALS

EDUCATION
ROGER J. RAMOS
Instructor
 Early Education in Calamba
and Bian

At the age of 3, Rizal learned the alphabet from his

mother.

At the age of 5, while learning to read and write,

Rizal already showed inclinations to be an artist.
He astounded his family and relatives by his pencil
drawings and sketches and by his moldings of clay.

At the age of 8, Rizal wrote a Tagalog poem, "Sa

Aking Mga Kabata," the theme of which revolves
on the love of ones language.
 Sa Aking Mga Kabata
Kapagka ang baya'y sadyang umiibig Ang wikang Tagalog tulad din sa
Sa kanyang salitang kaloob ng langit, Latin
Sanglang kalayaan nasa ring masapit Sa Ingles, Kastila at salitang
Katulad ng ibong nasa himpapawid. anghel,
Sapagka't ang Poong maalam
Pagka't ang salita'y isang kahatulan tumingin
Sa bayan, sa nayo't mga kaharian,
Ang siyang naggawad, nagbigay
At ang isang tao'y katulad, kabagay
Ng alin mang likha noong kalayaan.
sa atin.

Ang hindi magmahal sa kanyang salitaAng salita nati'y huwad din sa iba
Mahigit sa hayop at malansang isda, Na may alfabeto at sariling letra,
Kaya ang marapat pagyamaning kusa Na kaya nawala'y dinatnan ng
Na tulad sa inang tunay na nagpala. sigwa
Ang lunday sa lawa noong dakong
una.
 Early Education in Calamba
and Bian
Rizals parents employed private tutors to give him
lessons at home. The first was Maestro Celestino
and the second, Maestro Lucas Padua.

Later, an old man named Leon Monroy, a former

classmate of Rizals father became his tutor. This
teacher lived at the Rizal home and instructed Rizal
in Spanish and Latin. Unfortunately, he did not live
long. He died five months later.

After Monroys death, Rizals parents decided to

send their gifted son to a private school in Bian.
 First Day in Bian School
Paciano enrolled Rizal to the school of Maestro
Justiniano Aquino Cruz.

Rizal met the bully, Pedro. Rizal, who was angry at

this bully for making fun of him during his
conversation with the teacher, challenged Pedro to
a fight. Rizal having learned the art of wrestling
from his athletic Tio Manuel, defeated the bigger
boy.

After class, a classmate named Andres Salandanan

challenged him to an arm-wrestling match. Rizal
having the weaker arm, lost and nearly cracked his
head on the sidewalk.
 Best Student in School
In academic studies, Rizal beat all Binan boys. He
surpassed them all in Spanish, Latin, and other
subjects.

They were all jealous of his intellectual superiority

that they wickedly squealed to the teacher
whenever Rizal had a fight outside the school, and
even told lies to discredit him before the teachers
eyes. Consequently the teacher had to punish Rizal.

He received many whippings and strokes from the

ferule. Rare was the day when he was not stretched
on the bench for a whipping or punished with five or
six blows on the open palm.
Education in Manila

Ateneo Municipal de
Manila

Bachelor of Arts degree in

1877 at the age of 16

Graduated as one of the

nine students declared
sobresaliente

Continued his education to

obtain a degree in land
surveying and assessor
 Ateneo Municipal de
Manila
Rizal was a member of the academy of Spanish
Literature and the Academy of Natural Sciences.

Wrote his first poem Mi Primera Inspiracion (My

First Inspiration) which was dedicated to his
mother on her birthday.

He also wrote Through Education Our Motherland

Receives Light and The Intimate Alliance Between
Religion and Good Education which showed the
importance of religion in education.
Mi Primera Inspiracion
Why falls so rich a spray
of fragrance from the bowers
of the balmy flowers
upon this festive day?
Why from woods and vales
do we hear sweet measures
ringing
that seem to be the singing
of a choir of nightingales?
Why in the grass below
do birds start at the wind's noises, with its murmur seems to say:
unleashing their honeyed voices
as they hop from bough to bough?
Why should the spring that glows now turn to hear the first note
its crystalline murmur be tuning
to the zephyr's mellow crooning
as among the flowers it flows?
Why seems to me more endearing,
more fair than on other days,
the dawn's enchanting face
among red clouds appearing?
The reason, dear mother, is
they feast your day of bloom:
the rose with its perfume,
the bird with its harmonies.
And the spring that rings with
laughter
upon this joyful day
"Live happily ever after!
And from that spring in the grove
that from my lute I emote
to the impulse of my love!
Education in Manila
University of Santo
Tomas

Studied Philosophy and

Letters during his first
year

Shifted to Medicine
specializing in
Ophthalmology when he
found out that his
mother was going blind
University of Santo Tomas
Rizal was unhappy at this Dominican Institution of
higher learning because:

(1) the Dominican professors were hostile to him

(2) the Filipino students were racially discriminated
against by the Spaniards
(3) the method of instruction was obsolete and
repressive

After finishing the fourth year of his medical

course, Rizal decided to study in Spain . He could
no longerendure the rampant bigotry,
discrimination, and the hostility in the University of
Santo Tomas.
Education in Europe
Traveled alone to Europe

Madrid in May 1882

Continued his studies in

Medicine at the
Universidad Central de
Madrid
Degree of Licentiate in
Medicine in 1884
Degree of Philosophy and
Letters in 1885
 Spain as a realization
It was a venue for realizing Rizals dreams.

He finished his studies in Madrid and this to him was the

realization of the bigger part of his ambition.

His vision broadened to the point of awakening in him an

understanding of human nature, sparking in him the
realization that his people needed him.

It must have been this sentiment that prompted him to

pursue, during the re-organizational meeting of the Circulo-
Hispano-Filipino, to be one of its activities, the publication of
a book to which all the members would contribute papers
on the various aspects and conditions of Philippines life.
 Spain as a realization
The proposal for the book was unanimously
approved.

But afterwards, difficulties and objections were

raised, and a number of gentlemen stood up and
refused to discuss the matter any further in 1884.

Rizal decided not to press the issue any longer.

Although the book was never written, the next year,

Pedro Paterno published his Ninay, a novel sub-titled
Costumbres filipinas (Philippines Customs), thus
partly fulfilling the original purpose of Rizals plan.
Noli Me Tangere
The idea of writing a novel
grew on him, and later he
decided to write and worked
hard for Noli Me Tangere

He never told anyone about

it until it was finished, though
some of his companions
knew what he was doing

He wrote half of the novel in

Madrid, a quarter of it in Paris
and the rest in Germany
Education in Europe
University of Paris
(France)
University of Heidelberg
(Germany)
Earned a second
doctorate
Inducted as a member of
the Berlin Ethnological
Society and the Berlin
Anthropological Society
under the patronage of
the famous pathologist
Rudolf Virchow
University of Heidelberg

25-year-old Rizal completed

in 1887 his eye
specialization under the
renowned Prof. Otto Becker
in Heidelberg

Left Heidelberg a poem, A

las flores del Heidelberg;
both an evocation and a
prayer for the welfare of his
native land and the
unification of common
values between East and
West
 A las flores del
Heidelberg
Go to my country, go foreign
flowers,
Planted by the traveler on his way,
And there beneath that sky of blue
That over my beloved towers,
Speak for this traveler to say
What faith in his homeland he
breathes to you.
Go and say.... Say that when the
dawn
First brew your calyx open there
Beside the River Necker chill,
You saw him standing by you, very
still,
Reflecting on the primrose flush
you
wear.
Say that when the morning light
Her toll of perfume from you
wrung,
While playfully she whispered,
"How I
love you!
He too murmured here above you
Tender love songs in his native
tongue.
That when the rising sun the height
Of Koenigsthul in early morn first
spies,
And with its tepid light
Is pouring life in valley, wood, and
grove,
He greets the sun as it begins to
rise,
Which in his native land is blazing
straight above.
And tell them of that day he staid
And plucked you from the border of
the
path,
Amid the ruins of the feudal castle,
By the River Neckar, and in the
sylvan
shade.
Tell them what he told you
As tenderly he took
Your pliant leaves and pressed them
in
For aroma is your soul; it cannot roam
a book,
Where now its well-worn pages
close
enfold you.
Carry, carry, flowers of Rhine,
Love to every love of mine,
Peace to my country and her fertile
loam,
Virtue to her women, courage to her
men,
Salute those darling ones again,
Who formed the sacred circle of our
home.
And when you reach that shore,
Each kiss I press upon you now,
Deposit on the pinions of the wind,
And those I love and honor and adore
Will feel my kisses carried to their
brow.
Ah, flowers, you may fare through,
Conserving still, perhaps, your native
hue;
Yet, far from Fatherland, heroic loam
To which you owe your life,
The perfume will be gone from you;
Beyond the skies which saw it born,
nor
e'er forget.
 Rizals Life in Europe

Jose Rizal lived in Europe for 10 years.

He could converse in more than 10 different

tongues.

Excelled at martial arts, fencing, sculpture,

painting, teaching, anthropology, and
journalism, among other things.

During his European sojourn, he also began to

write novels. Rizal finished his first book, Noli
Me Tangere, while living in Wilhemsfeld with
the Reverend Karl Ullmer.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Rizal
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