Early Education

•Selective Principle: his affinity for education;

one thing he inherited from his Chinese
forebears.
•Chinese also believed that true reforms can
only come through education.
•His education started
within the cozy confines
of that stone house in
Kalamba.
•His Aya read him stories.
•Borrows notes and
lessons from an older
sister.
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 Tio Jose Alberto Tio “the giant” Manuel Tio Gregorio
helped Rizal develop his transformed Rizal’s body into a “the reality that the world would give nothing
suppler one through exercises. of value for free, that one should finish the
artistic talent work started as rapidly as possible, and that
thinking for oneself would be way better than
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[Link]#d0e1738 merely following what other would dictate.”
 Sketched by himself in Berlin when he Rizal’s Painting of his Sister Pencil Sketch of a Manila School Girl.
was twenty-five years old. Physicians Saturnina
then told him that he had consumption;
but with care, and fresh air, he soon
became well again.

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 Padre Leoncio Lopez- was
instrumental in the growth of
Rizal’s “love for scholarship and
intellectual honesty.”
In honor of Don Leoncio Lopez who
died in 1882 or 1883, Rizal
immortalized him as Father Florentino
in El Filibusterismo.

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 Doña Teodora
-Rizal’s first teacher
-taught him how to read so at 3, Rizal already
knew his letters.
-let him read the Spanish translation of the
book “The Children’s Friend” by Abbe Sabatier.
-taught him the basic prayers

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 Questions
1. ______________ is his
affinity for education.
2. One of the Tio that helped Rizal
develop his artistic talent.
 Questions
3. He transformed Rizal’s
body into a suppler one
through exercises.
4. She is Rizal’s first teacher.
 Private Tutors

Maestro Celestino Maestro Lucas Padua Maestro Leon Monroy

-tutored him Spanish and Latin
-a former classmate of Don
Francisco Engracio
 Don Francisco Engracio
-famed insistence to send Rizal to Biñan years
later.
-learned simple policies from him:
encouraging Rizal to alternate walking
with his dog Usman and rising his pony
while touring the countryside
allowing Rizal to spend the night in the
huts where farmers stay and share myths
and legends.
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Maestro Justiniano Aquino Cruz
-was of the “old school”
-famous for saying “Spare the rod, spoil
the child” and “the letters with blood.”
-Rizal was not overly fond of this
teacher.

-Rizal described him as: tall, thin man

with a long neck and a sharp nose and a
body slightly bent forward.
Jose Benedict Hernandez won the drawing contest in search for the look of
Maestro Justiniano Aquino Cruz, Rizal’s teacher in Biñan.
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Biñan School
-instructions are in Spanish and Latin
grammar

-There were painting lessons under

an old painter named Juancho which
further honed his artistic talent.
-he had a brawl with Maestro Cruz’s
son and an arm-wrestling with
another classmate.
Leaving Biñan
On December 17, 1870, he left Biñan for
Manila aboard the steamer Talim
Barely 2 years after he left Biñan, the Cavite
Mutiny happened.
 Questions
5. He’s one of Rizal’s tutors that tutored him Spanish
and Latin and a former classmate of Don Francisco
Engracio.
a. Maestro Celestino
b. Maestro Lucas Padua
c. Maestro Leon Monroy
 Questions
6. This person is famed insistence to send Rizal to
Biñan years later.
a. Don Francisco Engracio
b. Dona Teodora
c. Maestro Justiniano Aquino Cruz
 Questions
7. Rizal described him as: tall, thin man with a long
neck and a sharp nose and a body slightly bent
forward.
a. Don Francisco Engracio
b. Manuel Xerez
c. Maestro Justiniano Aquino Cruz
 Questions
8. He was an old painter named which further honed
Rizal artistic talent.
a. Padre Burgos
b. Manuel Xerez
c. Juancho
 Questions
9. What significant event occur 2 years after Rizal left
Binan?
a. Philippine Revolution
b. Cavite Mutiny
c. First Mass
 A student in Manila

Colegio de San Jose- originally under the

supervision of the Jesuits, was from 1875-1910
incorporated into University of Santo Tomas.

Colegio de San Juan de Letran- was also a

Dominican owned school.
 A student in Manila
Ateneo Municipal de Manila- although
administered by the Jesuits, was in some way
under the Dominicans specifically with the
latter exercising “certain powers of inspection
and regulation.”

-he was initially denied entry to the -in the end, Paciano had to secure the
Ateneo because of his poor health and help of Padre Burgos’ nephew, Manuel
short stature, and the fact that the Xerez to secure Rizal’s entry to Ateneo.
term had already started.
A student in Manila
-it was in Ateneo that he earned the
scholastic renown that people often
associate with him.

-it was not until he boarded at the

Ateneo that he started to truly excel.
He started giving more focus on his
studies again.
 A student in Manila
-the Jesuit system whose one aim has
always been “Ad majorem Dei gloriam.”
“all for the greater glory of God”
-this made Rizal even more pious and
devoted than he was before. And under
the watchful eyes of the Jesuits, he
bloomed into the Rizal that we know
Rizal at 14 today.
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 A student in Manila
-according to Blumentritt, it was in
Ateneo that Rizal started to feel
indignant to racial inequality. He even
came to the conclusion that Indios are
intellectually superior to the Spanish
students.

Ferdinand Blumentritt
A student in Manila
-The Bachelor of Arts degree, which was
equivalent to today’s high school diploma, that
Rizal earned from the Ateneo would not have
satisfied a young man whose passion for
excellence only a handful could have rivaled.

-His family, except his mother, decided to send

Rizal to college.
 Questions
10. Colegio de San Jose was originally under the
supervision of the ______, was from 1875-1910
incorporated into University of Santo Tomas.
a. Friars
b. Jesuits
c. Dominicans
 Questions
11. Who helped Paciano secure his brother’s entry at
Ateneo?
a. Padre Burgos
b. Manuel Xerez
c. Maestro Leon Monroy
 Questions
12. The following are the reasons why Rizal’s initial
attempt at Ateneo was unsuccessful, except:
a. Poor health and short stature
b. His ire towards the Church
c. The term has already started
 Questions
13. What does Ad majorem Dei gloriam mean?
a. God bless our nation
b. All for the greater glory of God
c. To God be all the Glory
 Rizal in College
-Rizal wanted to take a course either in literature and
the law or in medicine, but Paciano dissuaded him from
taking up law.

-He ended up taking a course in philosophy and letters

at the University of Santo Tomas because Don Francisco
Engracio wanted him to study metaphysics.

-He simultaneously enroll in Ateneo for a course in land

surveying in response perhaps for his dear Jesuits’
encouragement for him to take up agriculture.
 Rizal in College
-For one, Jesuits’ discipline balanced with
personal encouragement made him grow
while at UST all he observed was the
professors’ favoritism and ill-treatment
for the Filipino students.
-Rizal enrolled medicine only to cure his
mother, it was really not his passion.
 Rizal in College
-Zaide cited three things that made Rizal
unhappy during his stay with the Dominicans:
hostile treatment given to him by the Dominican
professors, the racial discrimination suffered by
Filipino students which was rampant in UST back
then, contributed to the growing sentiments
against him.
-This was highlighted at his award-winning poem
“The Council of the Gods” or “El Consejo delos
Dioses”
 Reasons why Rizal
left UST
-Wenceslao Retana and Gregorio Zaide cited
Rizal’s inability to endure the stifling atmosphere
at the university as the reason for his departure.

-Guerrero cited that aside from the

disappointments he experienced in the university,
his achievements in literature and the fact that
some of his contemporaries were already in
Europe as reasons why he left UST.
 Reasons why Rizal
left UST
-Craig cited the generic reason of Rizal having to
obtain a better education that, as Padre Burgos
said years earlier, could only be possible in
Europe.

-In nay case, he decided to leave UST after

finishing the fourth year of his medicine course
and, without the knowledge of his family except
Paciano, he left for Europe on May 3, 1882.
 Questions
14. The following statements aare some of the reasons
why Jose Rizal left UST, except
a. Racial Discrimination
b. Better education can only be obtained in Europe
c. Favoritism and ill-treatment among Filipino students
d. He wanted to study agriculture in Ateneo.
 Questions
15. Why did Rizal simultaneously enrolled land surveying in
Ateneo?
a. Because his father wanted him to
b. Because Paciano dissuaded him from taking up law
c. in response for his dear Jesuits’ encouragement for him to
take up agriculture
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