RIZAL’S EDUCATION

Studies in Manila
Studies in Europe
 Early Education in Calamba and Biñan

 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 one’s
language.
 “Sa Aking Mga Kabata”
Kapagka ang baya'y sadyang umiibig
Sa kanyang salitang kaloob ng langit,
Sanglang kalayaan nasa ring masapit
Katulad ng ibong nasa himpapawid.
Pagka't ang salita'y isang kahatulan
Sa bayan, sa nayo't mga kaharian,
At ang isang tao'y katulad, kabagay
Ng alin mang likha noong kalayaan.
Ang hindi magmahal sa kanyang salita
Mahigit sa hayop at malansang isda,
Kaya ang marapat pagyamaning kusa
Na tulad sa inang tunay na nagpala.
Ang wikang Tagalog tulad din sa Latin
Sa Ingles, Kastila at salitang anghel,
Sapagka't ang Poong maalam tumingin
Ang siyang naggawad, nagbigay sa atin.
Ang salita nati'y huwad din sa iba
Na may alfabeto at sariling letra,
Na kaya nawala'y dinatnan ng sigwa
Ang lunday sa lawa noong dakong una.
 Early Education in Calamba and Biñan
 Rizal’s 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 Rizal’s 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 Monroy’s death, Rizal’s parents decided to send their

gifted son to a private school in Biñan.
 First Day in Biñan 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 teacher’s 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,
unleashing their honeyed voices
as they hop from bough to bough?
Why should the spring that glows
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
with its murmur seems to say:
"Live happily ever after!“
And from that spring in the grove
now turn to hear the first note
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 longer endure 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 Rizal’s 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 Rizal’s 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
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;
For aroma is your soul; it cannot roam
Beyond the skies which saw it born, nor
e'er forget.
 Rizal’s 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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http://www.scribd.com/doc/21694647/Life-and-Works-of-Rizal
http://www.ac.wwu.edu/~fasawwu/resources/rizal/biography.htm
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