DR.

JOSE RIZAL’S EDUCATION

Early Education in Calamba and Biñan University of Heidelberg

At the age of 3, Rizal learned the alphabet from his 25-year-old Rizal completed
mother. At the age of 5, while learning to read and Education in Manila Education in Europe Education in Europe in 1887 his eye specialization
write, Rizal already showed inclinations to be an Ateneo Municipal de under the renowned Prof. Otto
Traveled alone to University of Paris
artist. He astounded his family and relatives by his Manila Becker in Heidelberg. Left
Europe Madrid in May (France)
pencil drawings and sketches and by his moldings Heidelberg a poem, “A las
Bachelor of Arts degree 1882. Continued his
of clay. At the age of 8, Rizal wrote a Tagalog University of flores del Heidelberg”; both an
in 1877 at the age of 16 studies in Medicine at
poem, "Sa Aking Mga Kabata," the theme of which Heidelberg evocation and a prayer for the
Graduated as one of the the Universidad Central
revolves on the love of one’s language. (Germany) welfare of his native land and
nine students declared de Madrid Degree of
the unification of common
Rizal’s parents employed private tutors to give him sobresaliente. Continued Licentiate in Medicine Earned a second values between East and West.
lessons at home. The first was Maestro Celestino his education to obtain a in 1884 Degree of doctorate. Inducted as a
and the second, Maestro Lucas Padua. Later, an old degree in land surveying Philosophy and Letters member of the Berlin A las flores del Heidelberg Go
man named Leon Monroy, a former classmate of and assessor. in 1885. Ethnological Society to my country, go foreign
Rizal’s father became his tutor. This teacher lived Spain as a realization. It was and the Berlin flowers, That when the rising
 Rizal was a member of
at the Rizal home and instructed Rizal in Spanish a venue for realizing Rizal’s Anthropological sun the height Carry, carry,
the academy of Spanish
and Latin. Unfortunately, he did not live long. He dreams. He finished his Society under the flowers of Rhine, Planted by the
Literature and the studies in Madrid and this to
died five months later. After Monroy’s death, patronage of the traveler on his way, Of
Academy of Natural him was the realization of
Rizal’s parents decided to send their gifted son to a the bigger part of his famous pathologist Koenigsthul in early morn first
Sciences. Wrote his first
private school in Biñan. ambition. His vision Rudolf Virchow spies, Love to every love of
poem Mi Primera
broadened to the point of mine, And there beneath that
 Paciano enrolled Rizal to the school of Maestro Inspiration (My First awakening in him an sky of blue And with its tepid
Justiniano Aquino Cruz. Rizal met the bully, Pedro. Inspiration) which was understanding of human
light Peace to my country and
Rizal, who was angry at this bully for making fun dedicated to his mother nature, sparking in him the
realization that his people her fertile loam, That over my
of him during his conversation with the teacher, on her birthday. He also
needed him. It must have beloved towers, Is pouring life
challenged Pedro to a fight. Rizal having learned wrote Through Education been this sentiment that in valley, wood, and Virtue to
the art of wrestling from his athletic Tio Manuel, Our Motherland Receives prompted him to pursue,
her women, courage to her
defeated the bigger boy. After class, a classmate Light and The Intimate during the re-organizational
meeting of the Circulo- men, Speak for this traveler to
named Andres Salandanan challenged him to an Alliance Between
Hispano-Filipino, to be one say grove, Salute those darling
arm-wrestling match. Rizal having the weaker arm, Religion and Good of its activities, the ones again, What faith in his
lost and nearly cracked his head on the sidewalk. Education which showed publication of a book to
homeland he greets the sun as
the importance of which all the members
would contribute papers on it begins to rise, Who formed
religion in education.
the various aspects and the sacred circle of our home.
conditions of Philippines Breathes to you. Which in his
life. native land is blazing straight
above.
Best Student in School Education in Manila
University of Santo
In academic studies, Rizal beat all Binan boys. He Tomas
surpassed them all in Spanish, Latin, and other
Studied Philosophy and
subjects. They were all jealous of his intellectual
Letters during his first
superiority that they wickedly squealed to the
year. Shifted to
teacher whenever Rizal had a fight outside the
Medicine specializing in
school, and even told lies to discredit him before
Ophthalmology when he
the teacher’s eyes. Consequently, the teacher had to
found out that his
punish Rizal. He received many whippings and
mother was going blind.
strokes from the ferule. Rare was the day when he
was not stretched on the bench for a whipping or
Rizal was unhappy at
punished with five or six blows on the open palm.
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.
Spain as a realization And when you reach that shore, Go and say.... Say
that when the dawn Each kiss I press upon you
The proposal for the
book was unanimously now, First brew your calyx open there And tell
approved. But them of that day he staid Deposit on the pinions of
afterwards, difficulties the wind, Beside the River Necker chill, And
and objections were plucked you from the border of the And those I
raised, and a number of love and honor and adore You saw him standing
gentlemen stood up and by you, very path, Will feel my kisses carried to
refused to discuss the their brow. Still, Amid the ruins of the feudal
matter any further in castle, Reflecting on the primrose flush you By
1884. Rizal decided not the River Neckar, and in the sylvan Ah, flowers,
you may fare through, wear. shade. Conserving
to press the issue any
still, perhaps, your native hue; Yet, far from
longer. Although the
Fatherland, heroic loam Say that when the
book was never
morning light Tell them what he told you To
written, the next year,
which you owe your life, Her toll of perfume from
Pedro Paterno
you wrung, As tenderly he took The perfume will
published his Ninay, a
be gone from you; While playfully she whispered,
novel sub-titled
"How I Your pliant leaves and pressed them in
Costumbres filipinas
For aroma is your soul; it cannot roam love you!“
(Philippines Customs),
a book, Beyond the skies which saw it born, nor
thus partly fulfilling the
He too murmured here above you Where now its
original purpose of
well-worn pages close eer forget. Tender love
Rizal’s plan.
songs in his native enfold you tongue.
Noli Me Tangere
The idea of writing a
novel grew on him, and Rizal’s Life in Europe
later he decided to Jose Rizal lived in Europe for 10 years. He could
write and worked hard converse in more than 10 different tongues.
for Noli Me Tangere. Excelled at martial arts, fencing, sculpture,
He never told anyone painting, teaching, anthropology, and journalism,
about it until it was among other things. During his European sojourn,
finished, though some he also began to write novels. Rizal finished his
of his companions first book, Noli Me Tangere, while living in
knew what he was Wilhemsfeld with the Reverend Karl Ullmer.
doing. He wrote half of
the novel in Madrid, a
quarter of it in Paris
and the rest in