Rizal’s Life: Higher Education and Life Abroad

Rizal’s higher education and life abroad are very different from my college life and
dream life abroad. In our country, the Philippines, he first pursued Philosophy and Letters at
the age of 16 in UST. He also got the opportunity to study and get licensed in the field of
medicine abroad at the Central University of Madrid. Meanwhile, I never got the chance to
study abroad unlike Rizal, I only go to private schools in our country. In high school, my
alma mater was Grace of Shekinah School in Bulacan and in senior high school, my study
place was at the Holy Angel University. Meanwhile, Rizal’s life abroad was never easy
because some foreigners discriminated against him. That’s the thing I don’t want to go
through when I travel and live in countries like Canada and London.

The campaign, “Propaganda Movement” has been fought aggressively and peacefully
also. The power of words by the works of Rizal under Spanish colonization has brought a lot
of change in this principle as well as the movement. The main and ultimate goal of this
movement is to bring happiness to the homeland and countrymen and encourage social
security in our country.

The other propagandist like Antonio Luna, Graciano Lopez Jaena, Mariano Ponce,
Jose Alejandrino and etc., contributed a lot to making the Propaganda Movement possible
and effectively working. I can say that it was Luna or General Luna who influenced the
Filipino’s perspective by appraising Rizal's death in the propaganda. Jaena was also regarded
by many historians as one of the triumvirates of Filipino propagandists.

Rizal’s growth as a propagandist is very unique yet intriguing at all. He started from
having nothing at all in his side but all of those ink and papers that became his true friend.
Until the ‘Independence’ was pictured and featured as a fulfillment of Rizal’s desire and love for
Philippines. It was, being considered as “Rizal’s dream come true”.