 Dr.
Jose Rizal’s Poem “Through Education Our So education multiplies her gifts of grace;
Motherland Receives Light”
The inspiring poems of Rizal proved his poetical
genius that reflected about his life in his childhood
memories including his experiences and insights
about education, religion and colonial
administration of Spain in the Philippine islands. In
1874-1877, he wrote poems of varied interest and
perspectives about life: (1) My First Inspiration; (2)
In Memory of My Town; (3) Through Education the
Mother Receives Light; (4) Intimate Alliance
between Religion; and (5) A Farewell Dialogue of the
Students.
 ALL ABOUT THE POEM “Through Education Our
Motherland Receives Light”
 Where & when it was written?
Rizal wrote the poem in April 1, 1876, at the age of 15. It
was written in Ateneo de Municipal in Manila.
 Why it was written?
Jose Rizal recounts the demand for sacrifices to
obtain an education, and the rewards a pleasure
living, the avenue to truth, goodness and honor. It
showed importance of religion in education,
encouraging his people to acquire virtue and
enlightenment. He resolutely opposed the pathway
of violence and clung to education not only in
theory but by his example.
 To whom it was written?
It was written for the youth for them to give importance
to education so that our country will rise. As we become
successful as an individual, we also contribute to the full
development of our nation towards unity consciousness
as it has a great impact on our society.
“Through Education Our Motherland Receives Light”
The vital breath of prudent Education
Instills a virtue of enchanting power;
She lifts the motherland to highest station
And endless dazzling glories on her shower.
And as the zephyr's gentle exhalation
Revives the matrix of the fragrant flower,
With prudent hand imparts them to the human race.
- It tells us how education can help us elevate the
status of at the times, current condition.
Through it, we are able to impart knowledge,
ideas, thoughts, philosophy, and more to pass to
our descendants that can help them and others.
For her a mortal-man will gladly part
With all he has; will give his calm repose;
For her are born all science and all art,
That brows of men with laurel fair enclose.
As from the towering mountain's lofty heart
The purest current of the streamlet flows,
So education without stint or measure gives
Security and peace to lands in which she lives.
- Education helps every person be filled with
wisdom and ides that can help through rough
times. The more people that become educated,
the bigger the amount of help our motherland
can receive when in dire times.
Where Education reigns on lofty seat
Youth blossoms forth with vigor and agility;
He error subjugates with solid feet,
And is exalted by conceptions of nobility.
She breaks the neck of vice and its deceit;
Black crime turns pale at Her hostility;
The barbarous nations She knows how to tame,
From savages creates heroic fame.
- With the potential of the youth to grow and
improve, education helps us become better with
different in different areas of skills. It gives us a
chance to right the wronged, to change the bad
to good, and to help us develop goodness to
everyone who are willing to be educated.
And as the spring doth sustenance bestow
On all the plants, on bushes in the mead,
Its placid plenty goes to overflow
And endlessly with lavish love to feed
The banks by which it wanders, gliding slow,
Supplying beauteous nature's every need;
So he who prudent Education doth procure
The towering heights of honor will secure.
- Knowledge from education is bottomless by
nature. The knowledge that one can receive is
endless, but on those who are willing to acquire
that, are the ones who in the end can and will
become great.
From out his lips the water, crystal pure,
Of perfect virtue shall not cease to go.
With careful doctrines of his faith made sure,
The powers of evil he will overthrow,
Like foaming waves that never long endure,
But perish on the shore at every blow;
And from his good example other men shall learn
Their upward steps toward the heavenly paths to turn.
- Knowledge from education in nature is purely
innocent, but with those who wield it of good
intentions can produce goodness in the same
sense. To those who see this act of goodness, in
the same sense, will also do good for others and
another to pass on to the next generation.
Within the breast of wretched humankind
She lights the living flame of goodness bright;
The hands of fiercest criminal doth bind;
And in those breasts will surely pour delight
Which seek her mystic benefits to find,
Those souls She sets aflame with love of right.
It is a noble fully-rounded Education
That gives to life its surest consolation.
- People who are afflicted by misinformation and
ignorance of information, are bound to be
influenced by wrong ideas. Being lost in the
darkness of cluelessness, education can light up
the path for the comfort of knowledge.
And as the mighty rock aloft may tower
Above the center of the stormy deep
In scorn of storm, or fierce Sou'wester's power,
Or fury of the waves that raging seep,
Until, their first mad hatred spent, they cower,
And, tired at last, subside and fall asleep, --
So he that takes wise Education by the hand,
Invincible shall guide the reigns of motherland.
- Through ups and downs, in the best and worst
times, one is susceptible to fall down the path of
ruin for them and around them. In the sense of
our country before, with the help of the Filipinos
with acquired knowledge, we are able to ignite
the flames of liberation from our oppressors.
On sapphires shall his service be engraved,
A thousand honors to him by his land be granted:
For in their bosoms will his noble sons have saved
Luxuriant flowers his virtue had transplanted:
And by the love of goodness ever lived,
The lords and governors will see implanted
To endless days, the Christian Education,
Within their noble, faith-enrapture nation.
- To those who did great for their men, will be
remembered for the actions they took and
sacrifices they made. With all the love they gave
for our countrymen, the knowledge they shared,
and education they implemented, they will be
remembered for all the goodness they’ve given
our motherland and the chance for us to
rebuild.
And as in early morning we behold
The ruby sun pour forth resplendent rays;
And lovely dawn her scarlet and her gold,
Her brilliant colors all about her sprays;
So skillful noble Teaching doth unfold
To living minds the joy of virtuous ways.
She offers our dear motherland the light
That leads us to immortal glory's height.
 - The future can bright and beautiful for
everyone. Education is a tool for change that is
open to everyone who are willing to learn. The
potential of one is untold by anyone, but those
who are willing to offer their hand to those in
need, you are what the motherland needs.

This poem proved that he valued education so much

that may give the power of the country to survive from
any forces in the struggles of societal freedom. Through
education, it creates the virtue of power to human race.
This gives security and peace to the motherland as the
Filipinos would learn the sciences and arts as the basis
to calm down the life of the society.