chapter 3

- Early education in Calamba & Biñan

- 4 R's that ilustrado family received - READING, WRITING, ARITHMETIC & RELIGION

- Instruction was rigid and strict

- Knowledge was forced into minds by means of tedius memory method, teacher's whip

- Rizal acquire necessary instruction preparatory for college work in Manila & abroad

- He was born physical weakling, become intellectual giant, outmoded and backward system
instruction obtain in thr Philippines

THE HERO'S FIRST TEACHER

- 1st teacher - His Mother - a remarkable woman of good character and fine culture

- At 3yrs old - learned alphabet & the prayers

- Doña Teodora as a tutor was patient, conscientious & understanding

- She encouraged him to write poems

- She related stories to lighten the memorizing of the ABCs

- Employed private tutors to give him lessons at home

- 1st tutor - Maestro Celestino

- 2nd - Maestro Lucas Padua

- 3rd - Leon Monroy, former classmate of his father, he lived in Rizal home, instructor in
Spanish and Latin

- After death of Monroy, Rizal was sent to a private school in Biñan

JOSE GOES TO BIÑAN

- JUNE 1869 Sunday afternoon - he left Calamba for Biñan, accompanied by Paciano

- Rode a Carromata after 1 1/2 hours drive reach destination, proceed to Aunt's house at almost
night
- Rizal and Leandro (cousin) went sightseeing in town become depressed because of homesick

FISRT DAY IN BIÑAN SCHOOL

- Monday morning, Paciano brought hin to school of Maestro Justiniano Aquino Cruz

- School (Teacher's home) a small nipa hut, 30meters from Aunt's home

- The class laughed at him, especially Pedro, because he knows Spanish & Latin

- Rizal described the teacher as tall, thin, long-necked, sharp nose, wearing sinamay shirt woven
in Batangas

FIRST SCHOOL BRAWL

- After the furst dag, in afternoon he met Pedro and challenged him to a fight

- They wrestled furiously in classroom, he defeated the bigger though he is smaller and younger
coz he learned art of wrestling from his Tio Manuel (athletic)

- He became famous among his classmate

- Andres Salandanan challenged him in arm-wrestling in the afternoon in the sidewalk of a

house

- Jose lost, having weaker arm, and nearly cracked his head on sidewalk

PAINTING LESSONS IN BIÑAN

- Juancho - father-in-law of the school teacher, an old painter house near the school

- Jose spent leisure hours at the painter's studio

- Juancho gave him free drawing and painting lesson, imprred by artistic talent of Rizal

- Jose Guevarra, appentice of the old painter - also improved became the favorite painters in
class

DAILY LIFE IN BIÑ AN

- Jose led a methodical life in Biñ an almost Spartan in simplicity

- Such life contributed much to his future development. It strengthened his body and soul

- Speaking of his daily life in Biñ an. he recorded in his memoirs

- He heard mass at 4 o'clock or studied lesson and went to mass afterwards. He returned to home and
went to orchard to look for mabolo to eat.

BEST STUDENT IN SCHOOL

-Jose beat all biñ an boys and suprassed them all in Spanish, Latin and other subjects

- Some of his older classmates were jealous of his intellectual superiority

- They wickedly squealed to the teacher whenever Jose had a fight outside the school and the teacher
punish Jose

END OF BIÑ AN SCHOOLING

- 1870 Jose received a letter from Saturnina informning him of the arrival of the steamer Talim which
would take him from Biñ an to Calamba

- Upon reading the letter he had a premonition that he would not return to Biñ an so that he became sad

- December 17, 1870 he left Biñ an on saturday afternoon

- He was thrilled to take passage on the steamer Talim for it was the first time he ever rode on a steamer.

- Arturo Camps a friend of his father who took care of him

MARTYRDOM OF GOM-BUR-ZA

- January 20, 1872 about 200 filipino soldiers and workmem of the Cavite arcesal under the leadership
of Lamadrid

- Filipino sergeant rose in violent mutiny because of the abolition of their privileges, including
exemption from tribute and poloby the reactionary Governor Rafael de Izquierdo

- Fathers Mariano Gomez, Jose Burgos and Jacinto Zamora leaders of the secular movement to Filipinize
the Philippine parishes.

- Jose Ma. Basa, Attorneys Joaquin Pardo de Tavera and Antonio Ma. Regidor magnified the failed mutiny
into revolt for philippine independence.

- February 17,1872 by order of Governor General Izquierdo

- Paciano enraged by the execution of Burgos his beloved friend, teacher and housemate, quit his studies
at the College of San Jose and returned to Calamba where he told the heroic story of Burgos to his
younger brother Jose who was then nearly 11 years old

- Martyrdom Gom-Bur-Za in 1872 truly inspired Rizal to fight the evils of Spanish tyranny

- April 18, 1889 letter written in Paris to Mariano Ponce.

- 1891 he dedicated his second novel El Filibusterismo to Gom-Bur-Za

INJUSTICE TO HERO'S MOTHER

- June of 1872 tragedy struck the Rizal family.

- Doñ a Teodora was suddenly arrested on a malicious charge that she and her brother Jose Alberto tried
to poison the latters perfidious wife

- Jose Alberto a rich ilustrado has just returned from a business trip in Europe

- Spanish lieutenant of the Guardia Civil filed a case in court accusing her husband and Doñ a Teodora of
attempting to poison her

- Don franciso refused to give him fodder for his store

- Antonio Vivencio del Rosario a menial of the friars.

- After arresting Doñ a Teodora the sadistic Spanish lieutenant forced him to walk from Calamba to Santa
Cruz a distance of 50 kilometers.

- Upon arrival in Santa Cruz she was incarcerated at the provincial prison where she languished for two
years and a half until the Manila Royal Audiencia (Supreme Court)

- Franciso de Marcaida and Manuel Marzan most famous lawyers of Manila.