Jose Rizal's

Academic
Background
Al Lexus P. Arevalo
Instructor
 RIZAL'S
MENTOR
Dona Teodora was his first teacher. Barely three years old, Rizal learned the alphabet
from his mother he was taught how to read and write in Spanish.

Maestro Celestino
Maestro Lucas Padua
Maestro Leon Monroy
 BIÑAN, LAGUNA

Uncle Manuel Alberto "great admiration for the beauty of nature"

Uncle Gregorio "Work hard and perform every task very carefully; learn to be swift
as well as thorough; be independent in thingking and make visual pictures of
everything"
BIÑAN, LAGUNA
In June of 1869, Paciano, accompanied him to Binan to continue his studies
They proceed to their aunt's home where Jose would stay.

Maestro Justiniano Aquino Cruz - Disciplinarian, tall man, lean and long-necked
with a sharp nose.
Juancho "master painter" - Rizal and Jose Guevarra became the class best
painter
Pedro and Andres Sandalangan -challenged Rizal in an arm wrestling match
He was not quarrelsome by nature, but he never ran away from a fight
Rizal possessed a God-given talent for literature

SA AKING MGA KABATA

Kapagka ang baya'y sadyang umiibig

Sa kanya salitang kaloob ng langit ,
Sanglang kalayaan ring masapit
Katulad ng ibong nasa himpapawid
 SA AKING MGA KABATA

Pagka't ang salita'y isang kahatulan

Sa bayan, nasa nayon mga kaharian
At isang tao'y katulad, kabagay
Ng alin mga likha noong kalayaan

Ang hindi magmahal sa kanyang salita

Mahigit pa sa hayop at malansang isda
Kaya ang marapat pagyamanin na nagpala
Ang wikang Tagalog tulad din ng Latin
Sa Ingles, Kastila at salitang anghel,
Sapagka't anf Poong maalam tumingin
Ang siyang naggawad, nag bigay sa atin

Ang salita nati'y huwad din sa iba

Na may alfabeto at sariling letra,
Na kaya nawala'y dinatnan ng sigwa
Ang lunday sa lawa noong dakong una
 Education at the Ateneo
Municipal

On June 10, 1872, Paciano accompanied Rizal to take the entrance examination
at College of San Juan de Letran
Father Magin Fernando refused to admit Rizal for these reasons: late for
registration and he was sickly and small for his age.
"Perez Burgos" nephew of Father Burgos
Rizal's first professor in Ateneo was Fr. Jose Bech
Carthaginian & Roman empire
Each group had its ranks; the best rank is "emperor"
2nd best-tribune, 3rd decurion, 4th centurion, and lastly standard bearer
Constant competition for supremacy in class
After a month Rizal became emperor
How Rizal spent his leisure hours?
Dona Teodora is also a victim of a miscarriage of Justice. At the end of the
school year on March 1873, he returned to Calamba for summer vacation. He
did not enjoy his vacation because his mother is in prison at Sta. Cruz. His
mother was arrested on a malicious charge that she and her brother, Jose
Alberto tried to poison the latter's wife.

She was imprisoned for two and a half years and forced to walk from Calamba
all the way to Sta. Cruz, a distance of 50 kilometers
 In his fourth year in Ateneo, Jose Rizal was inspired to study hard and to write
poetry by one of his professors, Father Francisco De Paula Sanchez, a great educator.
Rizal had the highest affection and respect for Father Sanchez, whom he
considered best professor in Ateneo

"The only Spanish priest who defend Rizal's Noli Me Tangere in Public"
Rizal's formal lesson in Ateneo gradually gained him proficiency both in
the art of rhetoric and in the art of independence thinking
He expressed his ideas on the value of education in his poem "Through
Education, the Country Receives the Light" (Por la Education Recibe Lustre La
Patria) (April 1, 1876)
he was considered, the most brilliant atenean of his time, he was truly the
"Pride of the Jesuits"
During his stay at the Ateneo, Rizal's grades were all Excellent
(Sobresaliente)
On March 23, 1877 he received his decree of Bachelor of Arts with highest
honors.
Rizal's studies at the University of Santo Tomas
(UST) (1877-1882)

For higher studies, after graduation from Ateneo he pursued higher

studies
Dona Teodora opposed to his son's pursuing higher education in
Manila
During his first year at UST he studied simultaneously at Ateneo
taking up vocational course "perito agrimensor" (expert surveyor)
Fr. Pablo Ramon encouraged Rizal to take medicine
Experience of Spanish brutality
Rizal experienced his first taste of Spanish brutality when he was
in Calamba spending summer vacation after tedious study as
medical student of UST

One night while he was walking alone along a dark street, Rizal
failed to recognize the Spanish civil guard, passing by his side,
thus, he did not bow, salute or greet the man. (whipped by stingray
tail "buntot pagi")

Captain General Primo De Rivera - reprimand Rizal and even told

Rizal he must be thankful for being alive and spared by the civil
guard
 Rizal's Artistic works

In the year 1879, the Artistic-literary Lyceum of Manila (Liceo Artistico-

Literario) a society whose members were the artist in literature held a
contest in poetry writing composition

Rizal joined the contest and submitted his poem "To the Filipino Youth" (A
La Juventud Filipina)
 TO THE FILIPINO YOUTH

Unfold, oh timid flower!

Lift up your radiant brow,
This day, Youth of my native strand
Your abounding talent show
Resplendently and grand
Fair hope of my Motherland! soar high, oh genius great,
And with noble thought fill their mind,
The honor's glorious seat,
May the virgin mind fly and find
More rapidly than the wind
 Descend with the pleasing light
of the arts and sciences to the plain ,
oh youth, and break forthright
The links of the heavy chain
That your poetic genuis chain
Rizal, after completing his fourth years in medical school decided to leave the
country for Europe.

He can no longer contain the hatred, discrimination and discontentment he

had towards Spanish students and teachers.
Family, friends, and acquantances believed that he was going to Europe to
finish his medical schooling.
1) He was the priest that Rizal considered the best professor in Ateneo
2) He was considered the brilliant Atenean of his time and Pride of
Jesuits
3)The teacher in Binan who was a disciplinarian and also a former
teacher of Paciano
4)The poem was written by Rizal stressed that education instills in the
youth noble ideas and sublime virtues the development and progress
of nation
5)The School in Manila where Rizal took the college entrance
examination
6) Poem that written by Rizal when he was eight years old