Early Education

in Calamba and
Binan
 Rizal’s first teacher

✣ Doña Teodora was Jose’s

first non-formal teacher

✣ 3 years old – Jose learned

prayers and the alphabet
 Private tutors of rizal
✣ Maestro Celestino was Jose’s first private tutor

✣ Maestro Lucas Padua was the second private

tutor

✣ Maestro Leon Monroy was his tutor in Spanish

and Latin. He was a classmate of Don Francisco.
 The Uncles of Rizal
✣ Uncle Jose Alberto - gave
wise direction in the studies
of Jose
 The Uncles of Rizal
✣ Uncle Gregorio – instilled into the mind of Jose
the Jose Alberto love for education

“Work hard and perform every task very carefully; learn to be swift as
well as thorough; be independent in thinking; and make visual
pictures of everything.”

– Uncle Gregorio
 The Uncles of Rizal
✣ Uncle Manuel Alberto – seeing Jose was frail in
nature, concerned himself with the physical
development of his nephew

✣ He also taught Jose the love for open air and

admiration for the beauty of nature
 Jose Goes to Biñan
✣ Don Leon (Rizal’s tutor)
died five months later and
Jose was sent to a private
school in Biñan.

✣ June 1869 – Jose goes to

Biñan with Paciano
 Jose Goes to Biñan

✣ Carromata – the
mode of transportation

✣ Aunt’s house – where

Jose lodged
 FIRST DAY IN SCHOOL
✣ Maestro Justiniano Aquino Cruz
– formal teacher

✣ Tall, thin, long- necked, sharp-

nosed, with a body slightly bent
forward

✣ The school was in Maestro

Justiniano’s house
 FIRST SCHOOL BRAWL
✣ Pedro (the teacher’s son) – wrestling

✣ Andres Salandanan – arm wrestling

PAINTING LESSONS IN BINAN
✣ Old Juancho – freely gave Jose painting
lessons

✣ Jose Rizal and his classmate Jose Guevarra

became apprentices of Old Juancho
 DAILY LIFE IN BINAN
✣ Hears mass at 4 a.m. or studies
lesson before going to mass
✣ Goes to orchard to look for
mabolo (kamagong) to eat
✣ Breakfast
 DAILY LIFE IN BINAN
✣ Goes to class at 10 a.m.
✣ Lunch break
✣ Goes back to school at 2 p.m.
✣ Goes home at 5 p.m.
✣ Prays with cousins
 DAILY LIFE IN BINAN
✣ Studies lessons, then draws a
little
✣ Has supper
✣ Prays again
✣ Plays in the street if moon is
bright
✣ Sleeps
 Best Student in School
✣ Jose surpassed his classmates in Spanish, Latin
and other subjects

✣ His older classmates were jealous and squealed

to the teacher whenever he had fights

✣ Jose usually received five or six blows while

laid out on a bench
 End of Biñan Schooling
✣ December 17, 1870 – Jose left
Biñan
✣ Talim – the steamer that Jose
rode
✣ Arturo Camps – a Frenchman
and a friend of Don Francisco, he
took care of Jose during the trip
Martyrdom of GOMBURZA
✣ January 20, 1872 – Cavite mutiny
✣ February 17, 1872 – Fathers
Mariano Gomez, Jose Burgos and
Jacinto Zamora were implicated and
executed
✣ The GOMBURZA were leaders of
the secularization movement
 Martyrdom of GOMBURZA
✣ The martyrdom of the three priests inspired
Rizal to fight the evils of Spanish tyranny

✣ In 1891, Rizal dedicated his second novel El

Filibusterismo to GOMBURZA
 Injustice to the Hero’s Mother
✣ In 1872, Doña Teodora was
arrested on a malicious charge that
she aided his brother Jose Alberto
in trying to poison his wife

✣ Jose Alberto planned to divorce

his wife because of her infidelity
Injustice to the Hero’s Mother
✣ Jose Alberto’s wife connived with the Spanish
lieutenant of the Guardia Civil and filed a case
against Rizal’s mother

✣ Antonio Vivencio del Rosario –

gobernadorcillo of Calamba, helped the
lieutenant arrest Doña Teodora
Injustice to the Hero’s Mother
✣ 50 kilometers – Doña Teodora was made to
walk from Calamba to the provincial prison in
Santa Cruz
Injustice to the Hero’s Mother
✣ Don Francisco de Marcaida & Don Manuel
Mazano – most famous lawyers of Manila,
defended Doña Teodora in court

✣ After 2 ½ years – the Royal Audiencia

acquitted Doña Teodora
✣ Reporters:

✣ Alyssa Gem L. Dupan

✣ Janine Escobar