Write 5-paragraph Critical Essay on The Impact of Rizal's Education on the various events that

happened in his family and the country in general. Include both the positive and negative effects.

Rizal has been described as a poet, novelist, essayist, doctor, nationalist, linguist, traveler, and many
other occupations in which he excelled. And that only represents a small portion of his life. Because at
a very young age Rizal already know and acknowledges the importance and value of education to a
person which is why he frequently reminded his sisters of the value and significance of education,
Rizal urged Josefa and Trinidad to pick up the English language when they paid him a visit in Hong
Kong. Perhaps Rizal's mother, Dona Teodora Alonzo, had an impact on his appreciation of education.
His mother was regarded as his primary instructor. He taught him to appreciate Spanish poetry at the
age of three while also teaching him the alphabet. There are also a lot of ideas and values about
education that you can see in Jose Rizal's writings and various events in his life. He understood the
value of education in the growth of a country and its citizens. The main character of the book Noli Me
Tangere, Crisostomo Ibarra, harbors the desire to found an appropriate school. Ibarra made reference to
what he saw as a modern school in the book. He believed that the building should be roomy and clean
and that the land should be sizable and have a playground and garden. Rizal himself had aspirations of
opening a school that would meet the needs of the times.

Rizal ran a school in Talisay, a few kilometers from Dapitan, which is now known as the Rizal Shrine,
in accordance with the contemporary vision he had for his people. The institution was fifty years in
advance of its time. a school where teaching students how to act like men was its main goal. The
integration of agriculture into academic instruction was complete, and the promotion of independence
was emphasized. The school was exceptional. It required intelligence to be a part of it. Over two years
had passed since the school opened. Students at Rizals went on to become prosperous farmers and
upright public servants. One Muslim student rose to the position of Datu, while another was elected
governor of Zamboanga.

Rizal always believed that education was a form of medicine or a solution to the issues facing the
colonial Philippines. He supported public education that is unhindered by politics and religion. He
argued that reform is impossible without liberal education that is appropriate for Filipinos. In his book
Instruction, Rizal argues persuasively for the value of education and calls for reforms to both
educational practices and school systems. He insisted that the neglect of the Spanish authorities in the
islands, rather than the Filipinos' indifference, apathy, or laziness as claimed by the rulers, was the
cause of his country's backwardness during the Spanish era. According to Rizal, the purpose of
education is to advance the nation and cultivate the minds of its citizens. Rizal argued that education is
the only way to save the nation from dominance because it is the cornerstone of society and a
requirement for social advancement. Therefore, Rizal's philosophy of education is centered on the
provision of appropriate motivation in order to support the powerful social forces that enable education
to be successful, to instill in young people an innate desire to develop their intelligence, and to grant
them eternal life.

Education has been the biggest weapon of rizal towards the spanish rule however just like any other
weapon education also becomes rizal’s weakness making it like a double-edged sword. As Rizal
became too aware and knowledgeable, the Spaniards and friars didn’t like it if an "indio" was too
smart, so as he wrote his classic novel, Noli me Tangere, which condemned the Catholic Church in the
Philippines for its promotion of Spanish colonialism. Immediately upon its publication, he became the
target of the police, who even shadowed him when he returned to the Philippines in 1887. He left the
country shortly thereafter to return to Spain, where he wrote a second novel, El Filibusterismo (1891),
and many articles in his support of Filipino nationalism and his crusade to include representatives from
his homeland in the Spanish Cortes. In 1892, he went back to Manila and founded the Liga Filipina, a
political organization that pushed for peace in the islands. Rizal was banished to the island of
Mindanao by angry Spanish authorities. He spent his four years there working as a doctor, instructing
students, and collecting specimens of the local flora and fauna while writing up his findings. Although
he had lost contact with other independence activists in the Philippines, he quickly denounced the
movement when it turned violent and revolutionary. Following the publication of the Grito de
Balintawak by Andrés Bonifacio in 1896, Rizal was detained, tried for sedition, and executed on
December 30, 1896, by firing squad.

Rizal had always emphasized education as the key to achieving independence. He was no longer alive
when the Americans established an educational system that allowed even the poorest children to attend
school. Today, public education is rarely used to foster critical thinking and transformative reaction.
Today, education primarily serves as a catalyst for the transmission of knowledge useful to the existing
society. A society dominated by the will of business corporations and foreign powers that openly
declare themselves democratic while ruling that workers' rights are literally illegal. Rizal was hailed as
a national hero and the defender of the Filipino people, but will he be shocked by the globalization
agenda, which is predicated on the idea that nationalism and protectionism are incompatible to social
and economic advancement?