Rizal and

Education

Josè Protacio Rizal Mercado y Alonso Realonda

 Lesson Coverage
01 Early Education in Calamba and Biñan
02 Education in Manila
03 Education in Europe
04 Rizal’s Life in Europe
 Early Education in Calamba and Biñan
● At the age of 3, Rizal learned the alphabet from his mother

● Rizal’s parents hired private tutors, Maestro Celestino and Maestro Lucas Padua.

● Later, an old man named Leon Monroy, a former classmate of Rizal’s father became his
tutor.
 First Day in Biñan
School
● Paciano enrolled Rizal to the school of Maestro Justiniano Aquino Cruz.

● Rizal met the bully, Pedro.

● After class, a classmate named Andres Salandanan challenged him to an arm-

wrestling match.

● Rizal became the Best Student in School.

 Education in Manila
(Ateneo Municipal de Manila)

● Ateneo Municipal de Manila

● Bachelor of Arts degree in 1877 at the age of 16

● Graduated as one of the nine students declared

sobresaliente

● Continued his education to obtain a degree in land

surveying and assessor.
 Ateneo Municipal de
Manila
● Rizal was a member of the academy of Spanish
literature and the Academy of Natural Sciences.

● Wrote his first poem Mi Primera Inspiration (My

First Isnpiration). Rizal also wrote “Through
Education Our Motherland Receives Light” and “The
Intimate Alliance Between Religion” and “Good
Education”.
 Education in Manila
(University of Santo Tomas)

● University of Santo Tomas

● Studied Philosophy and Letters during his first year

● Shifted to Medicine specializing in Ophthamology

when he found out that his mother was going blind.
 University of Santo Tomas
● Rizal was unhappy at this Dominican Institution of higher learning for three reasons.

● After finishing the fourth year of his medical course, Rizal decided to study in Spain.

● Rizal could no longer endure the rampant bigotry, discrimination, and the hostility in
the University of Santo Tomas.
 Education in Europe
● Traveled alone to Europe

● Madrid in May 1882

● Continued his studies in Medicine at the Universidad

Central de Madrid

● Degree of Licentiate in Medicine in 1884

● Degree of Philosophy and Letters

 Spain as a Realization
● It was a venue for realizing Rizal’s dreams.

● He finished his studies in Madrid and became a realization of the bigger part of his
ambition.

● Rizal’s vision broadened to the point of awakening in him an understanding of human

nature, sparking in him the realization that his people needed him.
 Education in Europe
● University of Paris (France)

● University of Heidelberg (Germany)

● Earned a second doctorate

● Inducted as a member of the Berlin Ethnological

Society and the Berlin Anthropological Society under
the patronage of the famous pathologist Rudolf
Virchow
 Rizal’s Life in Europe
● Jose Rizal lived in Europe for 10 years.

● He could converse in more than 10 different tongues.

● Excelled at martial arts, fencing, sculpture, painting, teaching, anthropology, and

journalism, among other things.

● During his European sojourn, he also began to write novels.