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JR - Acad Background
JR - Acad Background
JR - Acad Background
Academic
Background
Al Lexus P. Arevalo
Instructor
RIZAL'S
MENTOR
Dona Teodora was his first teacher. Barely three years old, Rizal learned the alphabet
from his mother he was taught how to read and write in Spanish.
Maestro Celestino
Maestro Lucas Padua
Maestro Leon Monroy
BIÑAN, LAGUNA
Maestro Justiniano Aquino Cruz - Disciplinarian, tall man, lean and long-necked
with a sharp nose.
Juancho "master painter" - Rizal and Jose Guevarra became the class best
painter
Pedro and Andres Sandalangan -challenged Rizal in an arm wrestling match
He was not quarrelsome by nature, but he never ran away from a fight
Rizal possessed a God-given talent for literature
On June 10, 1872, Paciano accompanied Rizal to take the entrance examination
at College of San Juan de Letran
Father Magin Fernando refused to admit Rizal for these reasons: late for
registration and he was sickly and small for his age.
"Perez Burgos" nephew of Father Burgos
Rizal's first professor in Ateneo was Fr. Jose Bech
Carthaginian & Roman empire
Each group had its ranks; the best rank is "emperor"
2nd best-tribune, 3rd decurion, 4th centurion, and lastly standard bearer
Constant competition for supremacy in class
After a month Rizal became emperor
How Rizal spent his leisure hours?
Dona Teodora is also a victim of a miscarriage of Justice. At the end of the
school year on March 1873, he returned to Calamba for summer vacation. He
did not enjoy his vacation because his mother is in prison at Sta. Cruz. His
mother was arrested on a malicious charge that she and her brother, Jose
Alberto tried to poison the latter's wife.
She was imprisoned for two and a half years and forced to walk from Calamba
all the way to Sta. Cruz, a distance of 50 kilometers
In his fourth year in Ateneo, Jose Rizal was inspired to study hard and to write
poetry by one of his professors, Father Francisco De Paula Sanchez, a great educator.
Rizal had the highest affection and respect for Father Sanchez, whom he
considered best professor in Ateneo
"The only Spanish priest who defend Rizal's Noli Me Tangere in Public"
Rizal's formal lesson in Ateneo gradually gained him proficiency both in
the art of rhetoric and in the art of independence thinking
He expressed his ideas on the value of education in his poem "Through
Education, the Country Receives the Light" (Por la Education Recibe Lustre La
Patria) (April 1, 1876)
he was considered, the most brilliant atenean of his time, he was truly the
"Pride of the Jesuits"
During his stay at the Ateneo, Rizal's grades were all Excellent
(Sobresaliente)
On March 23, 1877 he received his decree of Bachelor of Arts with highest
honors.
Rizal's studies at the University of Santo Tomas
(UST) (1877-1882)
One night while he was walking alone along a dark street, Rizal
failed to recognize the Spanish civil guard, passing by his side,
thus, he did not bow, salute or greet the man. (whipped by stingray
tail "buntot pagi")
Rizal joined the contest and submitted his poem "To the Filipino Youth" (A
La Juventud Filipina)
TO THE FILIPINO YOUTH