Rizal As An Educator: Lesson 1: The Right To Education For The Masses

PAMANTASAN NG CABUYAO
COLLEGE OF EDUCATION, ARTS AND SCIENCES

RIZ101- Life and Work of Rizal
CHAPTER 12:
RIZAL AS AN
EDUCATOR
Lesson 1: The Right to Education for the
Masses
Presenter:
Mary Grace A. Manila, LPT. MAEd SocSci
Chapter 12 Lesson 1: The Right to Education for the Masses
The Right to Education

Seeing the condition of the people made Rizal
conclude that education should be top priority. Unless
education was wrested away from the hands of the
friars, the school, instead of becoming an instrument
of liberation, will continue to be used as an
instrument of enslavement.

Education was the primordial concern of Jose Rizal. It
had been his life long concern of the preparation for
the attainment of independence. John Schumacher
aptly puts it: “education is the key to understanding
much of Rizal's career, for his hole career was bound
up with education-his own education and the
education of his own people.”


In El Filibusterismo, Rizal stated: “With Spain or
without Spain, they would always be the same, and
perhaps worse! Why independence, if the slaves today
will be the tyrants of tomorrow? And that they will be
such is not to be doubted, for he who submits to
tyranny loves it.” Rizal believed in the effectivity of
education as a solution to the social, political and
economic problems of the country. He was convinced
that reforms were possible through education and
liberty.

One of the significant contributions of Rizal to the
cause of human rights in his defense to the right of
the Filipinos to quality education. Rizal wrote to
Blumentritt: “We are struggling for our rights, the
rights for humanity, and if there is a God, he will have
to help us… Spain cannot justify even in the name of
God himself that six million Filipinos be brutalized,
exploited, oppressed, denying them rights and
afterwards heap upon them contempt and insult”


In defending the right of the Filipinos to education
Rizal appealed to the good sense of the Spanish
authorities not to be begrudge the education of the
Filipinos. In another letter of Rizal to Blumentritt,
Rizal said: “We believe that the cause of our
backwardness is and ignorance is the lack of means of
education. We are all human and we can improve
ourselves through education and culture.”


Rizal expressed his desire to found a school to carry
out his aspirations for the Filipinos: “When we shall
have obtained this (Philippine representation in the
Spanish Cortes) concession, then we shall rest and
devote our strength to the education of our people
which is my supreme aspiration.” The right to the
education is now enshrined in the historic Universal
Declaration of Human Rights to which the Philippines
is one of the 48 original signatories.


Parents have a prior right to choose the kind of
education that shall be given to their children. The
Universal Declaration of Human Rights proclaims the
value of the human person and the right to education
that would enable him to develop his creative powers
to the full benefit of all and in the cause of progress.

Education for the Masses

Rizal wished the education for the masses. He shared
his educational views with Blumentritt. On one
occasion he told the German scholar about his dream
of establishing a school in Calamba, Laguna to carry
out his aspiration of educating his people. At another
time he wrote the same good doctors about the efforts
of Filipino leaders in educating the masses: "All our
efforts tend to educate our people—education,
education, education, education of our people—
education and enlightenment."


In advocating the education of the masses, Rizal
pleaded for the education of the adults. In a
conversation in El Filibusterismo, between Isagani, the
leader of the students, and Senor Pasta, the lawyer
whom the friars consulted in their difficulties, on the
indifference of the Spanish authorities in granting the
student's petition for the opening of an academy to
teach Castilian,

Rizal embarked through Isagani:
"We cannot all be doctors, it is necessary that some of
us cultivate the soil. We must follow everyone's own
personal inclination." Mass education is therefore a
must in a free society. Rizal emphatically expressed
this idea in the Noli when he said: “The school is the
basis of society, the school is the book in which is
written the future of the nation! Show us the school of
the people and we shall show you what the people
are.”

Rizal embarked through Isagani:
"We cannot all be doctors, it is necessary that some of
us cultivate the soil. We must follow everyone's own
personal inclination." Mass education is therefore a
must in a free society. Rizal emphatically expressed
this idea in the Noli when he said: “The school is the
basis of society, the school is the book in which is
written the future of the nation! Show us the school of
the people and we shall show you what the people
are.”
CHAPTER 12:
RIZAL AS AN
EDUCATOR
Lesson 2: Rizal School
Presenter:
Chapter 12 Lesson 2: Rizal School
Rizal School
Rizal advocated education as a necessary condition in
a free society, necessary in the pursuance of liberty.
The Admission Test
Rizal's school, like any school today, devised an
admission test each applicant had to hurdle. However
this entrance exam was unique. Towards dusk Rizal
would take the applicant for a walk in the woods, and
when he could do so without the student noticing it,
leave his walking stick behind.

Rizal School
Before nightfall the two would return to the school
grounds, and when it was completely dark, Rizal would
casually mention that his cane was missing.
Remembering where he had left it, he would send the
boy to fetch it. By this time, the older students, in
collusion with Rizal, were already hiding in the forest,
waiting for the initiate to come by. As soon as the
unsuspecting boy was deep in the woods, they would
make strange sounds and swing their lanterns to cast
eerie spots of light.

Rizal School
Many a frightened applicants returned to the house
saying he could not find the cane. Although Rizal
would reassure him it was not important, the following
day, he would send the boy home with a note of regret
telling his parents that the class was full. Only those
boys who came back with the stick were admitted to
the school.
The Curriculum
When Rizal put up his school in Dapitan, He designed a
curriculum that would teach students to "behave like
men."
1. Primary Education — Primary education is
fundamental in the education of the masses. The
Universal Declaration of Human Rights asserts that
education should be free in the elementary and
fundamental stages.
The Curriculum
men."
2. Vocational Education - During his stay in Barcelona,
he visited a clay, glass, and porcelain factory. He
wrote to his parents and brother his desire to study
practical mechanics, trade, agriculture, and science.

The Curriculum
men."
College Education — Rizal prepared a plan for a college
to be established in Hong Kong. It included a
progressive curriculum offering subjects which would
provide for physical, academic, vocational, aesthetic,
and moral development.

The Curriculum
European educational system taught him that science
was the key to industrial progress.
Curriculum would offer subjects on health and
physical.
Courses that would develop their artistic talents and
aesthetic sense
Courses on etiquette to refine their manners and
social behavior, and vocational subjects to prepare
them for gainful occupation.

The Curriculum
The Curriculum
Rizal's curriculum also included the following
features:
Academic Freedom — In a letter to his parents about
the expulsion of Dr. Miguel Morayta from the
Universidad Central de Madrid because of his speech
on the academic freedom of the professor, Rizal said:
"Knowledge ought to be free and the professor as
well."
The Curriculum
features:
The school curriculum would develop the potentials of
the students.
The curriculum would promote the dignity of the
individual and thus no corporal punishment would be
inflicted.
The Curriculum
features:
The curriculum would inspire learning by encouraging
a wholesome class competition.
The curriculum would emphasize the great importance
of personal discipline.
The curriculum would emphasize the "science of life"
or learn to live with others by respecting the rights of
others.
The Curriculum
features:
The curriculum would stimulate arts and letters.
The curriculum would meet the demands of modern
time
CHAPTER 12:
RIZAL AS AN
EDUCATOR
Lesson 3: Rizal as a Teacher
Presenter:
Chapter 12 Lesson 3: Rizal as a Teacher
Rizal as a Teacher
Rizal first and foremost was an educator, a teacher.
Even at the early age of 16, at the Ateneo, Rizal already
wrote a poem on education entitled "Por La
Educacion."
And in his poem "El Amor Patrio," Rizal urged Filipinos
to seek progress through education, to be proud of
being Filipinos.
Rizal as a Teacher
He had his own ideas of the desirable qualities of a
teacher, from his qualification, training, and
preparation, selection, professional growth, tenure,
even his salary. As summarized by Esteban A. Ocampo,
Rizal stressed that:
A teacher should pass the appropriate competitive
examination.
He must have mastery of his subject matter.
He must have initiative and resourcefulness.

Rizal as a Teacher
He must be kind and "cultivate in the children
confidence, assurance, and some personal pride."
He must grow professionally and love his profession,
for "any kind of work done in disgust and shame is a
kind of martyrdom."
And "in order to be heeded and to maintain his
authority, the teacher needs prestige, reputation,
moral strength, and some kind of freedom of action."

Rizal as a Teacher
Pablo S. Trillana III discusses the following
implications of Rizal's concept of education for higher
education Here are some of his recommendations
inspired by Rizal:
1. Study paradigm shifts as part of the school
curriculum
2. Study the future or the science of alternative
scenarios
3. Develop multi-tasking
Rizal as a Teacher
4. Anchor and core curriculum on a strong
liberal arts education
5. Develop the ambiance of education and
strengthen a school celebratory culture, and
transform the school into a place for community
commitment The Innovations and Challenges to
the Present Higher Education in the Philippines

Rizal's Strategy for Liberation 

As a liberal Rizal proposed that the individual must be
educated, so that he could be unshackled from
ignorance and irrationality. 
Dr. Antonio de Morga in his Succesos de Las Islas
Filipinas noted that there were no illiterates in this
island. The adults that he met could all read and write
in their own system of writing. 
Not only did Filipinos lose their literacy. They lost
much more. Wrote Rizal in "The Philippines, A Century
Hence":

Rizal reiterated his insistence on education as an
important ingredient in the task of nation building.
This is evident in the word of Padre Florento in the Fili:
“Liberty must be secured, by making ourselves worthy
of it, by exalting the intelligence and the dignity of the
individual by loving, justice, right and greatness, even
to the extent of dying for them. 


And through Ibarra’s word in the Noli, Rizal said: “I
desire a country’s welfare; therefore I would build a
schoolhouse. I seek to be means of instruction, be
progressive advancement; without light there is no
road”
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RIZAL AS AN
EDUCATOR
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PAMANTASAN NG CABUYAO

COLLEGE OF EDUCATION, ARTS AND SCIENCES

The Right to Education

conclude that education should be top priority. Unless

education was wrested away from the hands of the

friars, the school, instead of becoming an instrument

of liberation, will continue to be used as an

The Right to Education

had been his life long concern of the preparation for

the attainment of independence. John Schumacher

aptly puts it: “education is the key to understanding

much of Rizal's career, for his hole career was bound

up with education-his own education and the

education of his own people.”

The Right to Education

without Spain, they would always be the same, and

perhaps worse! Why independence, if the slaves today

will be the tyrants of tomorrow? And that they will be

such is not to be doubted, for he who submits to

tyranny loves it.” Rizal believed in the effectivity of

education as a solution to the social, political and

economic problems of the country. He was convinced

that reforms were possible through education and

The Right to Education

cause of human rights in his defense to the right of

the Filipinos to quality education. Rizal wrote to

Blumentritt: “We are struggling for our rights, the

rights for humanity, and if there is a God, he will have

to help us… Spain cannot justify even in the name of

God himself that six million Filipinos be brutalized,

exploited, oppressed, denying them rights and

afterwards heap upon them contempt and insult”

The Right to Education

Rizal appealed to the good sense of the Spanish

authorities not to be begrudge the education of the

Filipinos. In another letter of Rizal to Blumentritt,

Rizal said: “We believe that the cause of our

backwardness is and ignorance is the lack of means of

education. We are all human and we can improve

ourselves through education and culture.”

The Right to Education

out his aspirations for the Filipinos: “When we shall

have obtained this (Philippine representation in the

Spanish Cortes) concession, then we shall rest and

devote our strength to the education of our people

which is my supreme aspiration.” The right to the

education is now enshrined in the historic Universal

Declaration of Human Rights to which the Philippines

is one of the 48 original signatories.

The Right to Education

education that shall be given to their children. The

Universal Declaration of Human Rights proclaims the

value of the human person and the right to education

that would enable him to develop his creative powers

to the full benefit of all and in the cause of progress.

Education for the Masses

his educational views with Blumentritt. On one

occasion he told the German scholar about his dream

of establishing a school in Calamba, Laguna to carry

out his aspiration of educating his people. At another

time he wrote the same good doctors about the efforts

of Filipino leaders in educating the masses: "All our