Caraga state university

Ampayon, Butuan City 8600, Philippines

URL: www.carsu.edu.ph

RIZAL’S
EARLY EDUCATION
 Objectives

At the end of the lesson students should be able to:

• Explore the importance of education in Rizal’s
career.
• Appreciate the importance of education as an
instrument of affecting social change.
What is your purpose in coming to school or having
an education?

Complete the phrase “I am here to _________.”

 Education during the time of Rizal

The friars controlled the educational system in the

Philippines and they were able to own different schools comprising
from the primary level to the tertiary levels of education. The
people who took charge in teaching, implementation of the rules
and regulations and the monitoring of students were assigned to
the missionaries during that time. The teachings of the Catholic
religion were emphasized to the levels of education in the schools
owned by the friars. In the primary level, they were taught of the
Christian Doctrines, how to read Spanish books and a little of the
native’s language.
In the universities, Science and Mathematics were not very
much introduced to the students. Instead of Spanish, students were
taught how to speak and understand Latin.
 Education under the Spanish administration
was privileged only to Spanish students.
Filipinos were only able to attend school in the
late 19th century. Some schools also limited their
lodging to the sons of wealthy Filipino families.
Most of the schools were exclusively for
Spanish boys.
 A Good and Middle Class Family

The Rizal family belonged to the

principalia, a town aristocracy in Spanish
Philippines. It is one of the distinguished families in
Calamba. Rizal’s parents were ilustrados. This means
that the family was able to send their children in
school in Manila.
On his diary, he said, “My mother taught me how to
read and to say haltingly the humble prayers which I
raised fervently to God.”

Dona Teodora considered as the first teacher of Jose

Rizal.
 Teachers

Maestro Celestino
Maestro Lucas Padua at Calamba
Leon Monroy
Maestro Justiniano Cruz at Biñan
Juancho, the painter

Spanish and Latin teachings

 SCHOOL’S FOCUS

Reading
Writing
Arithmetic
Religion
The Story of the Moth
The Story of the Moth
The Story of the Moth
 How did the Story of the Moth affect Rizal’s life?

The tragic fate of the young moth, which died a

martyr to its illusions, left a deep impress on Rizal’s
mind. He justified such noble death, asserting that
“to sacrifice one’s life for it,” meaning for an ideal, is
“worthwhile”. And, like that young moth, he was
fated to die as a martyr for a noble ideal.
 “Without 1872 Rizal would be a Jesuit now and, instead
of writing Noli, would have been written the opposite. At the
sight those injustices and cruelties while still a child my
imagination was awakened and I swore to devote myself to
avenge one day so many victims and with this idea in mind I
have been studying, and this can be read in all my works and
writings. God will someday give me an opportunity to carry
out my promise.”-Rizal, 1889
 Conclusion

Despite discrimination of the friars to the native

Filipino students, Rizal was privilege to study in the school
they controlled. Thanks to his parents who were ilustrados.
The educated Filipinos were called as ilustrados and
they began movements directed towards change in the
government of the Philippines. They wanted to be the same
level with the proud Spaniards. Jose Rizal was able to
achieved this perception while studying in Ateneo and in
UST.
The growing number of ilustrados in the Philippines is
considered as one of the major effects of education by the
Spaniards in the Philippines.
 Assignment

Read and understand the meaning of Rizal’s poems

1. Through Education Our Motherland Receives Light
2. The Intimate Alliance between Religion and Good
Education
 References

Pinterest
http://history-
educationduringthetimeofrizal.blogspot.com/2011/03/education-during-
time-of-rizal.html

Zaide, G & Zaide, S. (2008). Jose Rizal: Life, Works and Writings of a
Genius, Writer, Scientist and National Hero. Quezon City: All-Nations
Publishing Co., Inc.