CHAPTER 3: EARLY

EDUCATION IN
CALAMBA AND
BIÑAN
 RIZAL’S EARLY EDUCATION BACKGROUD
• Rizal’s first education was in Calamba, Laguna and
Biñan, Laguna.
• An ilustrado family like Rizal’s family will received
only the same type of schooling with other ilustrados.
• Schooling was characterized with 4 different R’s ;
• READING
• WRITING
• ARITHMETIC and
• RELIGION
• Physically weak but a very intellectual person.
 School of rizal in calamba

School of Rizal in Biñan.

ILUSTRADO
 THE HERO’S FIRST TEACHER
• FIRST TEACHER WAS HIS MOTHER
DOÑA TEODORA.
• FIRST LEARNED THE ALPHABET AND
PRAYERS.
• RIZAL’S TALENT IN POETRY WAS
FIRST DISCOVERED BY HIS MOTHER.
• WHEN RIZAL GREW OLDER. MAESTRO
CELESTINO AND MESTRO LUCAS PADUA
EMPLOYED TO RIZAL FAMILY TO BE A
PRIVATE TUTOR OF RIZAL.
• LEON MONROY WAS THE FIRST
TEACHER OF RIZAL THAT TAUGHT HIM
SPANISH AND LATIN.
MAESTRO LEON MONROY, WAS A
FORMER CLASSMATES OF RIZAL’S FATHER,
BECAME JOSE’S TOTUR. THIS OLD
TEACHER LIVED AT THE RIZAL HOME AND
INSTRUCTED JOSE IN SPANISH AND LATIN.
UNFORTUNATELY, HE DID NOT LIVE LONG
HE DIED FIVE MONTHS LATER.
JOSE GOES TO
BIÑAN
 JOSE GOES TO BIÑAN
• JUNE 1869 RIZAL LEFT CALAMBA TO STUDY IN
BIÑAN.
• RIZAL WAS ACCOMPANIED BY HIS BROTHER
PACIANO WHO ACTED HIS SECOND FATHER.
• THE TWO BROTHERS RODE IN A CARROMATA,
REACHING THEIR DESTINATION AFTER ONE AND A
HALF HOUR DRIVE.
• RIZAL LIVED IN HIS AUNT’S HOUSE IN BIÑAN.
THAT SAME NIGHT, JOSE WITH HIS COUSIN NAMED
LEANDRO, WENT SIGHTSEEING IN THE TOWN. INSTEAD
OF ENJOYING THE SIGHT, JOSE BECAME DEPRESSED
BECAUSE OF HOMESICKNESS. “IN MOONLIGHT,” HE
RECOUNTED, “I REMEMBERED MY HOME TOWN, MY
IDOLIZED MOTHER, AND MY SOLICIOUS SISTER. AH,
HOW SWEET TO ME WAS CALAMBA, MY OWN TOWN,
IN SPITE OF FACT, THAT IT WAS NOT AS WEALTHY AS
BIÑAN.
House of Tomasa Alejandro Mercado Paciano Rizal
 RIZAL’S FIRST DAY IN BIÑAN SCHOOL

• THE NEXT MORNING,(MONDAY) PACIANO BROUGHT HIS

YOUNGER BROTHER TO THE SCHOOL OF MAESTRO JUSTINIANO
AQUINO CRUZ.
• THE SCHOOL WAS IN THE HOUSE OF THE TEACHER, WHICH WAS
A SMALL NIPA HUT ABOUT 30 METERS FROM THE HOME OF
JOSE’S AUNT.
• PACIANO KNEW THE TEACGER QUITE WELL BECAUSE HE HAD
BEEN A PUPIL UNDER HIM BEFORE.
• IMMEDIATELY, JOSE WAS ASSIGNED HIS SEAT IN THE CLASS
• WHEN THE TEACHER ASKED JOSE IF HE KNOW SPANISH
AND LATIN, JOSE REPLIED “A LITTLE SIR” AND THE
BOYS IN THE CLASS, ESPECIALLY PEDRO, THE TEACHER
SON, LAUGHED AT JOSE’S ANSWER.
• JOSE DESCRIDED HID TEACHER IN BIÑAN AS FOLLOWS;
HE WAS TALL, THIN, LONG-NECKED, WITH A SHARP
NOSE AND A BODY SLIGHTLY BENT FORWARD, AND HE
USED TO WEAR A SINAMAY SHIRT, WOVEN BY THE
SKILLED HANDS OF THE WOMEN OF BATANGAS.
 FIRST SCHOOL BRAWL
• AFTER THE FIRST CLASS OF RIZAL’S FIRST DAY HE MEET
THE SON OF THE TEACHER WHO IS PEDRO THE BULLY.
• RIZAL CHALLENGED PEDRO IN A FIGHT AND STARTED
THE FIGHT.
• RIZAL WON THE FIGHT BY USING HIS ART OF
WRESTLING THAT HE LEARNED FROM HIS TIO MANUEL.
• AFTER THE CLASS IN AFTERNOON, RIZAL WAS
CHALLENGED BY ANDRES SALANDANAN, HIS
CLASSMATE INTO AN ARM WRESTLING AND HE LOST.
 PAINTING LESSONS IN BIÑAN
• JUANCHO, AN OLD PAINTER NEAR THE SCHOOL OF RIZAL.
• JUANCHO IS THE FATHER-IN-LAW OF THE SCHOOL
TEACHER.
• JUANCHO WAS AMAZED TO THE TALENT OF RIZAL IN
DRAWING AND PAINTING.
• RIZAL AND HIS CLASSMATE JOSE GUEVARRA BECAME THE
APPRENTICES OF THE OLD PAINTER.
 DAILY LIFE IN BIÑAN
• RIZAL LIFE IN BIÑAN WAS ALWAYS THE SAME EVERYDAY.
• HE GOES TO A MASS EVERY FOUR O’CLOCK IN THE
MORNING AND STUDY HIS LESSON AFTER THE MASS.
• RIZAL WILL GO HOME AFTER THE STUDY AND EAT SOME
BREAKFAST BEFORE GOING TO SCHOOL.
• AFTER HIS SCHOOL HE WILL GO HOME.
 BEST STUDENT IN SCHOOL
• IN HIS FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL, ALL HIS CLASSMATES
LAUGHED AT HIM.
• BUT, RIZAL BECAME THE BEST STUDENT IN HIS SCHOOL
AND SURPASSED THE BIÑAN BOYS IN SPANISH, LATIN
AND OTHER SUBJECTS.
• BECAUSE OF BECOMING THE BEST STUDENT, SOME OF
HIS CLASSMATES WERE JELOUS AT HIM.
 End of Biñan schooling

• Time came when Jose learned all that Maestro Justiniano could
teach him. The teacher informed Jose’s Parents that their son
should be sent to college in Manila.
• Jose received a letter from his sister Saturnina, informing him of
the arrival of the streamer Talim, which would take him from
Biñan to Calamba.
• December 17, 1871−Saturday afternoon Jose left from Biñan after
one year and a halfschooling on that town.
• Arturo Camps −A Frenchman and a friend of his father (Don
Francisco), took care of Jose during the trip.

• Upon arrival in Calamba, Jose was welcomed home by his

parents, brother, and sister. TheChristmas of 1871 was joyous
and memorable one for him. He was home, and he regaled
hisbrother and sister with numerous tales of his fights,
escapades, and school triumphs in Biñan.
 MARTYDOM OF GOM-BUR-ZA
• ON THE NIGHT OF JANUARY 20, 1872, ABOUT 200 FILIPINO SOLDIERS AND
WORKEN OF THE CAVITE ARSENAL UNDER THE LEADERSHIP OF LAMADRID,
FILIPINO SERGEANT, ROSE IN VIOLENT BUTINY BECAUSE OF THE
ABOLITION OF THEIR USUAL PRIVILEGES, INCLUDING EXEMPTION FROM
TRIBUTE AND POLO (FORCED LABOR) BY THE REACTIONARY GOVERNOR
RAFAEL DE IZQUIERDO.
• ACCORDINGLY, GOM-BUR-ZA (GOMEZ, BURGOS, AND ZAMORA), DESPITE
THE ARCHBISHOP’S PLEA FOR CLEMENCY BECAUSE OF THEIR INNOCENCE,
WERE EXECUTED AT SUNRISE, FEBRUARY 17, 1872, BY ORDER OF
GOVERNOR GENERAL IZQUIERDO. THEIR MARTYRDOM WAS DEEPLY
MOURNED BY THE RIZAL FAMILY AND MANY OTHER PATRIOTIC FAMILIES IN
THE PHILIPPINES.
• PACIANO WAS ENGAGED BY THE EXECUTION OF BURGOS,
HIS BELOVED FRIEND, TEACHER AND HOUSEMATE, QUIT
HIS STUDIES AT THE COLLEGE OF SAN JOSE AND
RETURNED TO CALAMBA WHERE HE TOLD THE HEROIC
STORY OF BURGOS TO HIS YOUNGER BROTHER JOSE,
WHO WAS THEN NERALY ELEVEN YAERS OLD.
• THE MARTYRDOM PF GOM-BUR-ZA IN 1872 TRULY
INSPIRED RIZAL TO FIGHT THE EVIL OF SPANISH TYRANNY
AND REDEEM HIS OPPRESSED PEOPLE. SEVENTEEN YEARS
LATER, IN HIS LETTER WRITTEN IN PARIS, APRIL 18, 1889,
TO MARIANO PONCE.
 INJUSTICE TO HERO’S MOTHER
• BEFORE JUNE OF 1872, TRAGEDY STRUCK THE RIZAL FAMILY.
DOÑA TEODORA WAS SUDDENLY ARRESTED ON A MALICIOUS
CHARGE THAT SHE AND HER BROTHER, JOSE ALBERTO, TRIED
TO POISON THE LATTER’S PERFIDIOUS WIFE.
• THE LIEUTENANT HAPPENED TO HAVE AN AX TO GRIND
AGAINST FIZAL’S FAMILY, AND TAKING THAT OPPORTUNITY TO
AVENGE HIMSELF HE ARRESTED DOÑA TEODORA.
• DOÑA TEODORA WAS FORCED TO WALK FORM CALAMBA TO
SANTA CRUZ.
• DOÑA TEODORA WALKED AT A TOTAL DISTANCE OF 50
KILOMETERS.
• UPON ARRIVAL IN SANTA CRUZ, SHE WAS INCARCERATED
AT THE PROVINCIAL PRISON, WHERE SHE LANGUISHED
FOR TWO YEARS AND A HALF UNTIL THE MANILA ROYAL
AUDEINCIA(SUPREME COURT) ACQUITTED HER OF THE
ALLEGED CRIME.
RECOUNTING THIS INCIDENCE OF HIS MOTHER’S
IMPRISONMENT, RIZAL SAID IN HIS STUDENT MEMOIRS:
“OUR MOTHER WAS UNJUSTY SNATCHED AWAY FROM US
AND BY WHIM? BY SOME MEN WHO HAD BEEN OUR
FRIENDS AND WHOM WE TREATED AS HONORED GUEST. WE
LEARNED LATER THAT OUR MOYHER GOT SICK, FAR FROM US
AND AT AN ADVANCED AGE. MY MOTHER WAS DEFENDED BY
MESSRS. FRANCISCO DE MARCIADA. SHE FINALLY
SUCCEEDED IN BEING ACQUITTED AND VINDICATED IN THE
EYES OF HER JUDGES, ACCUSERS, AND EVE HER ENEMIES,
BUT AFTER HOW LONG? AFTER A TWO AND A HALF YEARS?”
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• Kupdf.net_jose-rizal-book-by-zaide
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87/End-of-Binan-Schooling
• https://www.slideshare.net/10000240649341
2/rizal-47423805
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