Rizal's Life: Childhood and Early Education (M2) PDF

THE RIZAL’S LIFE: CHILDHOOD AND EARLY EDUCATION (M2) MRS CHARLOTTE U CAPONPON Faculty in Charge 2nd SEMESTER, A.Y. 2024-2025  Guided Question Who were the important persons that influenced Rizal in his intellectual pursuits? 2 3...

THE RIZAL’S LIFE: CHILDHOOD AND EARLY EDUCATION (M2) MRS CHARLOTTE U CAPONPON Faculty in Charge 2nd SEMESTER, A.Y. 2024-2025  Guided Question Who were the important persons that influenced Rizal in his intellectual pursuits? 2 3 Rizal’s Life: Childhood and Early Education 4 Rizal’s Early Childhood Memories 5  Hero’s Hometown Calamba – is Hacienda town belonged to Dominican Order. Named after a big native jar. Picturesque town cover with rice fields and sugar-lands The legendary Mount Makiling – South part Laguna de Bay – East Town Jose Rizal – wrote Un Recuerdo A Mi Pueblo (In Memory of My Town” @ 15 years old. 6 The first memory of Rizal, in his infancy, was his happy days in the family garden. Because he was frail, sickly, and undersized child, he was given the most tender care by his parents. His father built a nipa cottage in the garden for him to play in the daytime. Another childhood memory was the daily Angelus prayer. 7 By nightfall, Rizal related, his mother gathered all the children at the house to pray the Angelus. With nostalgic feeling, he also remembered the happy moonlight nights at the azotea after the rosary. The aya related stories to Rizal children many stories about fairies; tales of buried treasure and trees with blooming diamonds, and other fabulous stories 8 Sometimes, when he did not like to take his supper, the aya would threaten him that the aswang, the nuno, the tikbalang, or a terrible bearded Bombay would come to take him away if he would not eat his supper. Another memory of his infancy was the nocturnal walk in the town, especially when there was a moon. Recounting this childhood experience, Rizal wrote: “Thus, my heart fed on sombre and melancholy thoughts so that even still a child, I already wandered on wings of fantasy in the high regions of the unknown.” 9 The Rizal children were bound together by the ties of love and companionship. Their parents taught them to love one another, to behave properly in front of elders, to be truthful and religious, and to help one another. They affectionately called their father Tatay, and mother Nanay. Jose was jokingly called Ute by his brother and sisters. The people in Calamba knew him as Pepe or Pepito. Of his sisters, Jose loved most little Concha (Concepcion). He was one year older than Concha. He played with her, and from her, he learned the sweetness of brotherly love. Unfortunately, Concha died of sickness in 1865 when he was 3 years old Jose, who was very fond of her, cried bitterly to lose her. 10 RIZAL’S EARLY EDUCATION 11  First Education from Mother Jose’s first teacher was his mother. At the age of 3, Jose learned the alphabet and prayers from her. Seeing Rizal had a talent for poetry, she encouraged him to write poems. She gave her all her love and all that she learned in college. 12  The Story of the Moth Of the story told by Dona Teodora to Jose, it was that of the young moth made the profoundest impression on him. The tragic fate of the young moth, which died a martyr to its illusions, left a deep impress on Rizal’s mind. 13 ❖ His Yaya – stories Uncle Manuel – physical development Uncle Jose – sketch, paint and sculptures Uncle Gregorio – value of hard work Influences from Other Member of His Family 14  Maestro Celestino Maestro Lucas Padua Maestro Leon Monroy Basic Latin, reading and writing. First Teachers Hired By His Father 15 Goes to Biñan Biñan – He went to school in Biñan with his brother Paciano in carromata. As described by Jose Rizal the school was in a nipa house. He excelled in Latin and Spanish. Painting lessons under Maestro Justiniano Aquino Cruz. After one and a-half year of schooling he returned to Calamba on board the steamship Talim and was accompanied by his father’s friend Arturo Camps on December 17, 1870. 16 First Day in Biñan School The teacher asked him: "Do you know Spanish?" "A little, sir," replied the Calamba lad. "Do you know Latin?" "A little, sir." The boys in the class, especially Pedro, the teacher’s son laughed at Jose’s answers. The teacher sharply stopped all noises and begun the lessons of the day. Jose described his teacher in Biñan as follows: "He was tall, thin, long-necked, with 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. He knew by the heart the grammars by Nebrija and Gainza. Add to this severity that in my judgement was exaggerated and you have a picture, perhaps vague, that I have made of him, but I remember only this." 17 First Day in Biñan School In academic studies, Jose beat all Biñan boys. He surpassed them all in Spanish, Latin, and other subjects. Some of his older classmates were jealous of his intellectual superiority. They wickedly squealed to the teacher whenever Jose had a fight outside the school, and even told lies to discredit him before the teacher’s eyes. Consequently, the teacher had to punish Jose. 18 June of 1872 Rizal family faced the tragedy/injustice for his mother. She was force to walk from Calamba to Sta Cruz (Provincial Prison), a distance of 50 kilometers. Two and a -half years in prison. Royal Audiencia acquitted her for the alleged crime with her defense counsel Francisco de Marcaida and Manuel Marzan, famous lawyers in Manila. 19 Ateneo Municipal (1872 - 1877) At eleven years old Jose Rizal entered Ateneo Municipal formerly known as Escuela Pia, for a six-year program, Bachiller en Artes. At first Father Magin Ferrando a college registrar, refused to admit him for two reasons; 1. He was late for registration and; 2. He was sickly and undersized for his age but when Xerez Burgos nephew of Father Burgos talked to Father Ferrando, he was admitted at the Ateneo. 20  Rizal's Breakfast: TUYO. Image is from Historian Mr. Ambeth21 Ocampo on his FB Page. First Year - Two groups of students in Ateneo 1. Roman Empire – composed of students boarding (Internos) at Ateneo 2. Carthaginian – composed of non – boarders (Externos) First Professor of Rizal in Ateneo– Father Jose Bech. 22  First Year- Rizal received excellent grades in all subjects even he placed second of that year. Santa Isabel College – to improved his Spanish. He has to pay 3 pesos for each lesson. Second Year - still he became emperor and end the school year with excellent grades again and gold medal. 23  Third Year – On his third year he did not make an excellent in his studies though by the end of the term all his subjects are excellent but he only won 1 medal in Latin. Fourth Year – This year he became interno and he met his best professor in Ateneo Jesuit Father Francisco Paula Sanchez who inspired him to study harder and to write poetry. At the end of the term, he received 5 medals and excellent grades. 24 ❖Rizal finished his last year at Ateneo, highest honor. ❖March 23, 1877 - he graduated as head of his class. Obtained excellent on all his subjects, philosophy, physics, biology, chemistry, languages, mineralogy and others. ❖First Romance in Ateneo – Segunda Katigbak (14 years old, Batangueña from Lipa) 25 Scholastic Record of Jose Rizal Ateneo De Manila 26 QUESTIONS?? 27 THANK YOU ☺ Ma’am Cha 28  D2. Rizal’s Life: Higher Education and Life Abroad 29  “Don’t send him to Manila again: he knows enough. If he gets to know more, the Spaniards will cut off his head.” - Dona Teodora Alonzo 30 31  University of Santo Tomas – First Year (1877-1878) Philosophy and Letters 1. His father liked it 2. He was still uncertain as to what career to pursue Ateneo – Vocational Course that gave him the title of Perto Agrimensor (Expert Surveyor, November 25, 1881 at the age of 17.) Second Year – Shifted to medicine course. He felt the need to take up this course learning about his Mother’s failing eyesight. 32 Romances with Other Girls 1.Leonor Valenzuela – she was a tall girl with a regal bearing, Sending her love notes written in invisible ink. Orang is the pet name of Leonor V. 2.Leonor Rivera – born on Camiling Tarlac, on April 11, 1867. A frail, pretty girl, “tender as a budding flower with kindly wistful eyes.” They became engaged, Taimis is her signed named. 33 1879 – “A La Juventud Filipina (To the Filipino Youth)” Rizal (18 years old) won first prized which consisted of a silver pen. Feather- shaped and decorated with gold ribbon. It is a classic poem in Philippine Literature for two reasons; First, it was the first great poem in Spanish written by Filipino, whose merit was recognized by Spanish literary authorities, And secondly, it expressed for the first time the nationalistic concept that the Filipinos, and the foreigners were the “fair hope of the Fatherland. Liceo Artistico-Literario (Artistic – Literary Lyceum of Manila – society of literary men and artists. 34 Champion of Filipino Students In 1880- he founded a secret society of Filipino Students in the University of Santo Tomas called Compañerismo (Comradeship). Whose members were called “Comapanios of Jehu”. He was the chief of this secret society with his cousin from Batangas Galiano Apacible as secretary. As chief he led Filipinos students into combat against Spanish students in various street fights. 35 Unhappy at UST 1. The Dominican professors were hostile to him 2. The Filipino students were racially discriminated against by the Spaniards and 3. The method of instruction was obsolete and repressive. 36 Rizal’s academic performance in UST was not as impressive as that in Ateneo. Despite this, he was still one of the seven students who remained in the course in his last year at UST out of the original batch of twenty – four. (Jose, 2011) 37