“Enumerate the achievements of Rizal during the years when he was a (not necessarily in school) and

explain:

A. Atenean (1872-77) (give 5)

B. Thomasian (1877-72) (give 5)

C. Madrid Student (1882- 86) (give 5)

To the Filipino Youth”. In his poem, he enlightened the readers about the truth – which Filipinos must be
standing and being proud of what they are, and not just be slaves of somebody else

Last Year in Ateneo (1876-77) • Rizal returned to Manila in June 1876 • He was “the pride of the Jesuits”
• He obtained the highest grades in all subject

Rizal carved an image of the Virgin Mary on a piece of batikuling (Philippine hardwood) with his pocket
knife

CHILD JESUS (Al Nino Jesus, November 1875) During his student days, the 14 year old Jose Rizal wrote
“Al Niño Jesus” (Child Jesus), a brief religious ode which expressed his devotion to Catholicism.

.EDUCATION GIVES LUSTER TO THE MOTHERLAND (Por la Educacion Recibe Lustre la Patria, 1876)
Our national hero, despite his young age, had expressed high regards for education. He believed in the
significant role which education plays in the progress and welfare of a nation as evident in his writing of
the poem “Education Gives Luster to the Motherland”.
 

INTIMATE ALLIANCE BETWEEN RELIGION AND GOOD EDUCATION (Alianza Intima Entre la Religion y la
Buena Educacion, 1876)
Jose Rizal believed that religion is concomitant with good education, hence the strong relationship
between education and faith. Accordingly, he wrote the poem “Intimate Alliance between religion and
good education” at the age of fifteen while he was in Ateneo.
IN MEMORY OF MY TOWN (Un Recuerdo A Mi Pueblo, 1876)
Rizal loved his hometown Calamba in Laguna. He fondly remembered his memories of the said town. In
1876, a 15 years old student in the Ateneo Municipal de Manila, he wrote the poem “In Memory of My
Town”. The poem was written to express his love and appreciation for the place where he grew up.

Nang si Rizal ay nasa ikalawang taon na sa pag-aaral ng UST. Lumahok

siya sa paligsahan ng Liceo Artistico-Literario. Sa nasabing paligsahan ay
nanalo ng unang gantimpala ang kaniyang tulang sinulat na may
pamagat na A La Juventud Filipina. Ang paligsahan ay para lamang sa
mga Pilipino.

Muli siyang lumahok sa paligsahan ng Liceo Artistico-Literario ukol

bilang pag- paparangal sa ika-400 taon ng kamatayan ni Miguel de
Cervantes. Sa nasabing paligsahan ang kaniyang ginawang akda na may
pamagat na El Consejo de los Dioses(The Counsels of the Gods) ay
nanalo ng unang gantimpla

1877 - 29 Nov: binigyan ng diploma of honorable mention and merit ng

Royal Economic Society of Friends of the Country, Amigos del Pais para
sa isang tula.

Natamo niya ang lisensya sa panggagamot sa Pamantasang Sentral ng

Madrid (Hunyo 21, 1884) · Nagwagi si Rizal sa isang paligsahan sa
wikang Griyego (Hunyo 25, 1884) ·
1887 he wrote his firstnovel, Noli me tangere (“Touch Me Not”), a
passionate exposure of the evils of the friars rule,comparable in its
impact to Harriet Beecher Stowe’s exposure of Negro suppression in
theUnited States, Uncle Tom’s Cabin.

A sequel, El Filibusterismo (1891, “Filibusterism”)established his

reputation as the leading spokesman of the Philippine
reformmovement.

In1890 he wrote an edition of Antonio Morgas’ Succesos de las Islas

Filipinas,which showed that the native people of the Philippines had a
long history before the coming of the Spaniards. He became the leader
of the Propaganda Movement, contributing numerous articles to its
newspaper, La Solidaridad, published in Barcelona. Rizal’s political
program, as expressed in the columns of the newspaper, included
integration of thePhilippines as a province of Spain, representation in
the Cortes (the Spanish parliament), thereplacement of the Spanish
friars by native Philippine priests, freedom of assembly and expression,
and equality of Filipinos and Spaniards before the law.

Studies completed in Spain.

Rizal completed his medicalcourse in Spain. He was awarded the degree
of Licentiate in Medicineby the Universidad Central de Madrid on June
21, 1884
MADRID STUDIES Spartan life
November 3, 1882,
 Universidad Central de Madrid
two courses, Medicine and Philosophy and Letters.
painting and sculpture, language lessons on French, German and
English Academy of San Carlos,
fencing and shooting skills Hall of Arms Sanz y Carbonell.

Madrid Inspiration
visited Don Pablo Ortega y Rey.
 former civil governor of Manila.
 daughters, Pilar and Consuelo.
Consuelo who awakened Rizal’s heart.
Eduardo de Lete was also courting her,
Consuelo love Rizal.
not allow the romance to grow
1) loved Leonor
2)leave Madrid right after his studies.
In the end,  Consuelo chose Lete over Rizal,
(he was just being inconsistent with her.)

THE PROPAGANDA MOVEMENT

Between 1872 and 1892,
 Filipino émigrés settled in Europe.
émigrés--liberals exiled in 1872

students attending European universities

formed the Propaganda Movement. (literary and cultural purposes)

more than for political ends,

Propagandists,
upper-class Filipinos from lowland Christian areas,

"awaken the sleeping intellect of the Spaniard to the needs of

our country"

 more equal association of the islands and the motherland

. goals were representation of the Philippines in the Cortes, or
Spanish parliament;

secularization of the clergy;

 legalization of Spanish and Filipino equality;

public school system independent of the friars;
 abolition of the polo (labor service)
 vandala (forced sale of local products to the government);

 guarantee of basic freedoms of speech and association

 equal opportunity for Filipinos and Spanish to enter government
service.

 1882 arrival in Madrid, Rizal joined

Circulo-Hispano-Filipina.
composed of Filipinos and Spaniards who believed that reforms be introduced
in the Philippines.

founder was Juan Atayde

 Mi Piden Versos (They Asked Me For Verses).

Noli Me Tangere (Touch Me Not) in 1886 and El Filibusterismo (The Reign

of Greed) in 1891

Graciano Lopez-Jaena,
orator and pamphleteer
left the islands for Spain in 1880
after satirical short novel,
Fray Botod (Brother Fatso), portrait of a provincial friar.

1889 biweekly newspaper in Barcelona, La Solidaridad (Solidarity)

principal organ of the Propaganda Movement,
audiences both in Spain and in the islands.

Its contributors included Rizal;

Dr. Ferdinand Blumentritt,
. Austrian geographer and ethnologist whom Rizal had met in
Germany;
Marcelo del Pilar, a reform-minded lawyer
active anti-friar movement
flee to Spain in 1888,

editor of La Solidaridad
leadership of the Filipino community in Spain

.-->In 1887 Rizal returned briefly to the islands,

And back Europe to Japan and North America (second novel)
 Antonio
seventeenth-century work,
Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas (History of the Philippine Islands).
provided positive information about the islands' early
inhabitants, and reliable accounts of pre-Christian religion and social
customs.