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showed inclinations to be an artist. He astounded his family and relatives by his pencil drawings and sketches and by his moldings of clay.
y At the age of 8, Rizal wrote a Tagalog poem, "Sa Aking Mga
at home. The first was Maestro Celestino and the second, Maestro Lucas Padua.
y 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.
y After Monroy s death, Rizal s parents decided to send their
Aquino Cruz.
y 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.
y 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.
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.
y 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
y Ateneo Municipal de Manila y Bachelor of Arts degree in 1877
at the age of 16
y Graduated as one of the nine
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
y University of Santo Tomas y Studied Philosophy and
specializing in Ophthalmology when he found out that his mother was going blind
Education in Europe
y Traveled alone to Europe y Madrid in May 1882 y Continued his studies in
Medicine in 1884
y Degree of Philosophy and
Letters in 1885
Spain as a realization
y It was a venue for realizing Rizal s dreams. y He finished his studies in Madrid and this to him was the
understanding of human nature, sparking in him the realization that his people needed him.
y It must have been this sentiment that prompted him to
pursue, during the re-organizational meeting of the CirculoHispano-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
y The proposal for the book was unanimously approved. y But afterwards, difficulties and objections were raised, and
a number of gentlemen stood up and refused to discuss the matter any further in 1884.
y Rizal decided not to press the issue any longer. y 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
y The idea of writing a novel grew
on him, and later he decided to write and worked hard for Noli Me Tangere
y He never told anyone about it
until it was finished, though some of his companions knew what he was doing
y He wrote half of the novel in
Education in Europe
y University of Paris (France) y University of Heidelberg
(Germany)
y Earned a second doctorate y 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
y 25-year-old Rizal completed
in 1887 his eye specialization under the renowned Prof. Otto Becker in Heidelberg
y 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
novels. Rizal finished his first book, Noli Me Tangere, while living in Wilhemsfeld with the Reverend Karl Ullmer.
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