RIZ101: LIFES AND WORKS OF RIZAL

Rizal’s Life: Higher Education and Life Abroad

Education at Binan, Laguna

• Late for registration, he was sickly and
• June 1869- Paciono, accompanied small in his age (11
Rizal to Binan • years old)
• Father Perez Burgos nephew of Father
• Aunt’s house Burgos
• Admitted in Ateneo located in Intramusros
• Maestro Justiniano Aquino Cruz
• Quit and observant
(disciplinarian)
• Jesuits system
• Pedro • Physical culture, humanities and scientific
studies
• Andres Salandanan • Vocational courses (agriculture,
commerce,
• A master painter Juancho • religious institute)
• Mold character
• Jose Guevara
• Hear mass in the beginning of class
• Class best Painter
• Opened and closed with prayers
• Fr. Jose Bech (first professor)
• His time is budgeted from 4 o’clock in • An externo(non-borders)
the morning • Carthaginian Empire
• Roman Empire (emperor, best-tribune,
• Hearing mass, eating time, studies Decurion,
and leisure time • centurion, standard bearer)
• Interno (boarders)
• He played outside when there was the
moon
• Answering question about the lesson
• 3 mistakes he could lose his position
• Concentrated on his studies diligently • Competition of supremacy in class
• A religious picture- 1st prize he received at
• Excelled in Spanish, Latin and all Ateneo
subjects • Spanish lesson in Sta. Isabel College (three
pesos
• He returned in Calamba on board the • for lesson)
motorboat
• March 1873 he returned in Calamba for
• TALIM
summer
• Transferred by his parents to Manila • vacation
• His mother imprison at Sta. Cruz

EDUCATION AT THE ATENEO

• June 10, 1872
• Entrance examination at College of San
Juan de Letran
• Don Francisco decided to send Rizal to
Ateneo de Municipal
• Father Magin Fernando (registrar)
• Jose Alberto tried to poison the latters wife
• Arrested and forced to walk from Calamba
to Sta. Cruz
• (50 km)
• Imprisoned for two and a half years
• Ateneo (1873-74)
• Gold medal as diligent student and
voracious leader
• The count of Monte Cristo by Alexander
Dumas
 • Edmund Dantes escape of heroes in
Dungeons
• Finding of buried treasure on the rocky
mountain of
• Monte Cristo and revenge to his enemies
• Travels in the Philippines by Dr. Feoder
Jagor a
• german scientist- traveller in 1859-60
• Observation of the defects of Spanish
colonization
• American succeed as colonizer
• Universal history by Cesar Cantus
• Historical facts about the world
• Used to read while studying in Ateneo
• Fourth year- inspired to study and write a
poem by one
• of his professor
• Father Francisco de Paula Sanchez
• Highest affection and respect and best
professor
• Gained him in both Art and Rhetoric
• Rizal did not waste any time to learn new
things during his time.
• On his vacant time, Rizal took painting
lessons from
• Agustin Saez and sculpture lessons from
Teodoro
• Romualdo de Jesus to enhance his interest
in arts.
• As a result, he was able to sculpt the image
of the
• Virgin Mary and the Sacred Heart of Jesus.
• Father Jose Villaclara, S.J. encouraged him
to pay attention also to the sciences and
philosophy.
My Inspiration
My First Inspiration Why do the scented
flowers in fragrant fray Rival each other’s
flower this festive day? Why is the sweet
melody bruited in the sylvan dale, Harmony
sweet and fluted like the nightingale? Why
do the birds sing so in the tender
grass,Flitting from bough to bough with
winds that pass?And why does the crystal
spring run among the flowers While lullaby
zephyrs sing like its crystal showers? I see
the dawn in the East with the beauty
endowed Why goes she to a feast in a
carmine cloud?
Sweet mother, they celebrate your natal
day,The rose with her scent innate, the
bird with his lay. The murmurous spring
this day without alloy. Murmuring bids you
always to live in joy. While the crystalline
murmurs glisten, hear you the accents
strong, Struck from my lyre, listen! To my
love’s first song,
Literature for Rizal
• The first poem that Rizal wrote as a
student was entitled Mi Primera
Inspiracion (My First Inspiration). He
was 14 years old when he write this
poem was dedicated to his mother
during her birthday, but according to
some, this wasa work of his cousin.
IN MEMORY OF MY TOWN
The Creator I saw in the grandeur of your
secular forests; Sorrows on your bosom,
never did I come to know; While at your
blue sky I gazed, neither love nor
tenderness Did I lack, for in Nature my
pleasure depended. Tender childhood,
beautiful town, rich fountain of happiness
Of harmonious melodies that banish
sorrows! Return to my heart, return my
gentle hours. Return as the birds return
when flowers are in bloom. But alas! Adieu!
Eternally keep vigil over your peace, joy
and Repose, Genie of goodness who kindly
his gifts presents with love; For you my
fervent wishes, for you my constant
yearning To learn and to heaven I pray that
you your candor keep!
• When he was a student at Ateneo,
he wrote another poem entitled Un
Recuerdo de Mi Pueblo (In Memory of
My Town). Written in 1876,
• This poem was his way of giving
tribute to his hometown, Calamba.
The content of the poem shows how
Rizal appreciates the beauty of his
place, which made him love nature
and to strengthen his faith and
beliefs in God.
• Al Niño Jesus (To the Child Jesus) as
Rizal’s expression of his devotion to
Catholicism;
• La Alianza Intima Entre Religion y La
Buena Educacion (The Intimate
 Alliance Between Religion and Good
Education)- importance of religion
to education.
• Por La Educacion Recibe Lustre la
Patria (Through Education The
Country. Receives Light)- high regard
for education That shows Rizal’s
various ideas on education. From
this, Rizal likened education to a
lighthouse that it can guide people
in their behaviors andactions. Rizal
even quoted the good effects that a
country and its people can learn
from an excellent and wise
education. He believes that through
education, the country could bear a
group of educated youth who can
guide them towards progress.
1876 (RELIGION, EDUCATION AND
CHILDHOOD MEMORIES
• Ed Cautiverio y el Triunjo: Batalla de
Lucena y Prison de Bodabil (The
captivity and the triumph: Battle of
Lucena and the Imprisonment of
Boadabil)- defeat and capture of
Boadabil, last Moorish sultan of
Granada
• La Entrada Triunfu; de los Reyes
Catolices en Granada (The Triump
Entry of the Catholic Monarchs into
Granada)- Victorious entry of King
Ferdinand and Queen Isabel into
Granada last Morish stronghold in
Spain.
At University of Santo Tomas
• After completion of Bachelor of Arts
at Ateneo, Rizal was
• admitted to higher studies at a
university.
• Doña Teodora was against Rizal’s
decision to pursue a
• higher education.
• Don Francisco sent Rizal to UST, the
Dominican
• University of the Philippines.
• Rizal was not sure of what course to
take after graduation.
His former mentors in Ateneo suggested
priesthood or
farming, but Rizal considered taking up
literature, law or
medicine.
• Paciano, his brother discouraged him
to take law, saying that Rizal will
not be able to practice it later on
because of the political conditions in
the county that time.
• Rizal was 16 years old when he
began his freshman year at
UST. He enrolled under the Faculty of
Philosophy and Letters, Major in
Philosophy.
• This was the course that his father
wanted him to pursue, but
then it turned out that he took up
courses in Cosmology,
Metaphysics, Theodicy and History of
Philosophy.
• He also took up surveying course at
Ateneo. Once again,
• he excelled in the said course while
underage.
• Rizal was presented the title on
November 25, 1881 for
• his excellency.
• After his first year, Rizal changed his
course from
• Philosophy and Letters to Medicine.
Academic Performance at UST
• Rizal’s grades in UST were still
excellent but he had lower
• grades in other subjects.
• Three contributing factors explain
this: The attitude of
• Dominican professors towards Rizal;
there was racial
• discrimination against Filipino
students; and he was
• disgusted at the primitive method
used in UST.
• His medical subjects were generally
average, his real
vocation was really in the arts
• Distractions he experienced as a
youth.
• Segunda Katigbak of Batangas, he
frequently visited in her
• boarding house.
• He was courting both Leonor (Orang)
Valenzuela and Leonor Rivera. Upon
learning that Orang was already
engaged with another man,
• Rizal focused on courting Leonor
Rivera, his first cousin.
• A reason why he had less time for
studies. He also joined gang
fights, attended parties and even did
cutting classes.
Liberalism and Literary Works as a
University Student
• Liberal ideas were significantly
introduced in Manila owing
to the culmination of the Spanish
Civil Wars, opening of
Suez Canal and the availability of
the Philippines to world trade.
• The significant revolutions of 19th
century in the country
such as: revolution against
monasticism.
• Race and nation against inequality
and subjection.
• The Liceo Artistico Literario de
Manila an organization of art
• lovers in the city
• Rizal joined the contests to prove
that the Filipinos can be
equal and even surpass the
Spaniards in literary prowess.
• Sponsored by the association in 1879
and 1880, his works, A
La Juventud Filipina (To The Filipino
Youth) and El Consejo de los Dioses
(The Council of the Gods) were
recognized as the best entry in the
competition.
A La Juventud Filipina
• This literary work is considered as
one of the best work of him which
Rizal wrote when he was 18.
• Rizal expressed that he wanted to
contribute to Spanish-Philippine
society, but instead of being famous
to have the prize for excellence in
the arts, it was rejected.
• Rizal received a silver quill for
sharing his talent in poetry.
• The Spanish authorities noticed that
it was the first best poem in Spanish
written by a Filipino.
• It showed that the Filipinos were the
fair hope of the motherland a
nationalistic concept that portrayed
Rizal’s love for the country.
• He clearly mentioned that
Philippines is his motherland, Mi
Patria.
• The first Filipino to call the country
his motherland
• He stated that the youth is, “THE
FAIR HOPE OF THE MOTHERLAND” (La
Bella Esperanza de la Patria Mia).
• Practice three things: to enhance
their talents in the arts; to develop
their knowledge of the sciences; and
to not be afraid of the future and
remove the chain of bondage.
EL CONSEJO DE LOIS DIOS
• This is one of Rizal’s entry in the
literary contest of 1880. The poem
was announced as the best entry in
the competition that year.
• However, the jury knew that its
author was a Filipino so they decided
to confer the grand prize to a
Spaniard.
• Even though Rizal did not receive
the best award, he had proven that
Filipinos can compete with other
races in a fair play irrespective of
the superiority of the Spaniards.
JUNTO AL PASIG
• At the request of the Jesuits, Rizal
wrote a one-act play and was
staged at Ateneo in celebration of
the Feast Day of Immaculate
Conception on December 8.
• The play was essentially considered
as continuation of Rizal’s appeal to
the Filipino youth to rebuke foreign
individuals for causing them misery.
 A FILIPINAS

• This man happened to be a

• It can be deducted from Rizal’s work
that he is grateful to God for all his
experiences of the scenery of his
country.
• His love for natural beauty had
always been appreciated
since he was a child, but the
depiction of the lake, sky,
mountains and fields in “A Filipinas”,
the country to which he was
personally connected, was
something new.
lieutenant of the Guardia Civil. But
since Rizal did not pay respect to the
lieutenant by saluting or greeting
him, the lieutenant whipped him
with his sword and slashed it at
• Rizal’s back causing him to be
wounded.Rizal wrote a complaint
letter to Governor-General Primo de
Rivera but the response, as foreseen,
was nothing as good, considering
that he was an indio. The incident
left Rizal a bad impression of the
unfair and unjust acts of the
Spaniards towards the Filipinos.

ACTIVISM AT UST

• Leader in student activism when he

was studying

• Indio or chongo and Kastila or

bangus

• Rizal, being the front-runner, was

recognized for winning the brawls.

• Rizal was wounded due to a fight

with the Spanish students of
Escolta, Manila.

• “Compañerismo”

• The members were called

Companions of Jehu,

• Became the president of this secret

society and Galiciano Apacible was
the secretary
• He condemned the humiliation of
brown Filipino students,
who were most of the time insulted
by their Dominican mentors.
• Favoritism and skin color were bases
for getting the good
grades and not the actual
intellectual capacity of the
students.

Experiencing Spanish Brutality

• Rizal first experienced Spanish

brutality during his first summer
vacation at Calamba after his
freshman year in UST. While walking
past the streets, he did not notice
the man passing by because of the
darkness of the night.