3. • Rizal opened a community school
which operated from January
1894 to July 1896
• Established a school in Talisay
near Dapitan
• He taught 16 -23 students.
• Casa Cuadra - The Square House.
Located at the base of a hill, it
served as a workshop and
secondary dormitory for
Rizal's students.
4. • He taught Subjects such as : Reading, Writing,
Languages (Spanish and English), Geography,
History, Mathematics (Arithmetic and Geometry),
Industrial Work, Nature Study, Morals and
Gymnastics
• He trained them how to collect specimens of plants
and animals
• Formal Classes start at 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm
• Rizal didn’t collect Tuition fee/Matricula but
instead made student do community work such as
gardening and maintaining his field and collecting
specimens.
5. • - As in the Ateneo, the
best pupil was called
"emperor" and he sat at
the head of the bench;
the poorest pupil
occupied the end of the
bench.
• Talisay Tree – Rizal’s
favorite rendezvous
place with his students.
• Rizal wrote a poem
“HIMNO A TALISAY” for his
students to sing.
6. HYMN TO TALISAY
Hail, Talisay,
firm and faithful,
ever forward
march elate!
You, victorious,
the elements
—land, sea and air—
shall dominate!
The sandy beach of Dapitan
and the rocks of its lofty mountain
are your throne. O sacred asylum
where I passed my childhood days!
In your valley covered with flowers
and shaded by fruitful orchards,
our minds received their formation,
both body and soul, by your grace.
We are children, children born
late,
but our spirits are fresh and
healthy;
strong men shall we be tomorrow
that can guard a family right.
We are children that nothing
frightens,
not the waves, nor the storm, nor
the thunder;
the arm ready, the young face
tranquil,
in a fix we shall know how to fight.
7. • We ransack the sand in our frolic;
through the caves and the thickets
we ramble;
our houses are built upon rocks;
our arms reach far and wide.
No darkness, and no dark night,
that we fear, no savage tempest;
if the devil himself comes forward,
we shall catch him, dead or alive!
• Talisayon, the people call us:
a great soul in a little body;
in Dapitan and all its region
Talisay has no match!
Our reservoir is unequalled;
our precipice is a deep chasm;
and when we go rowing, our bancas
no banca in the world can catch!
• We study the problems of science
and the history of the nation.
We speak some three or four
languages;
faith and reason we span.
Our hands can wield at the same
time
the knife, the pen and the spade,
the picket, the rifle, the sword—
companions of a brave man.
• Long live luxuriant Talisay!
Our voices exalt you in chorus,
clear star, dear treasure of
childhood,
a childhood you guide and please.
In the struggles that await the
grown man,
subject to pain and sorrow,
your memory shall be his amulet;
and your name, in the tomb, his
peace.
8. • The poem seemed to be free from any trace of
revolutionary ideas. However, on December 2,
1896, at the time of the trial of Dr. Jose Rizal,
copies of documents ascribed to Rizal were
transmitted by Colonel Francisco Olive to the
investigating officer Rafael Dominguez. The
documents written in Tagalog, were confiscated by
the Spanish authorities of the Veteran Civil Guard
from Mr. Fresell’s warehouse, claiming that the
papers were owned by Andres Bonifacio. Two of
the subversive letters they found were entitled “To
Talisay” (Verse), by Laonglaan (Rizal) and Kundiman
(Verse) by J.P.R. (Jose P. Rizal). The documents
were translated in English as follows;
9. • We are children, we are the latest born. But our
hearts beat high, and tomorrow we shall be full-
grown men who will know how to defend their
hearths and homes. We are children, yes we are
children but nothing daunts us, neither wave nor
storm nor thunder. With strong right arm and
unclouded brow we shall know how to fight in the
hour of danger. Our hands shall take up in turn
those instruments of sovereign Reason, the sword,
the pen, the spade.
10. Rizal’s Legacy on Education
• The enriching effects of Rizal’s study abroad
made him see how education could bring
social progress. Rizal’s desire to share with his
people what he had learn during his studies in
Spain, France, and Germany and his
observations in London and Belgium became
his supreme aspiration. The noble aspiration
was a major step necessary in national
development.
Rizal’s Legacy on Education
11. Rizal’s Legacy on Education
• Rizal Insist on Education as the Instrument for
Social Progress A major contribution to the
making of the Filipino nation was Rizal’s
insistence on the education of his people, a social
commitment of any government. He considered
this as a cornerstone of the reform the country so
urgently even on todays situation.
• Rizal pleaded to government authorities to take
steps to improve the education of the Filipinos.
That the cause of our backwardness and
ignorance is the lack of means of education.
15. • Lighting system/Light Posts
– To illuminate the streets.
• To rival the best in Europe
• Spent many months
draining the marshes
in order to get rid
of malaria
16. Rizal’s Legacy on Civic Work
• Rizal’s work experience in Dapitan enhance his
concept of Practical Nationalism. He was fully
convince that self-improvement and
community development are the beginning of
national governance.
18. As a Linguist
• Studied language in the region (Dapitan),
Bisayan and Malayan and Subanon
• Rizal know 22 languages:
19. Such as:
•Tagalog
• Ilokano
•Spanish
• Latin
•Greek
•English
• French
• German
•Arabic
•Hebrew
•Sanskrit
•Catalan
•Dutch
•Italian
•Chinese
• Japanese
•Portuguese
• Swedish
• Russian
• Malay
•Bisayan
•and Subanun
20. Rizal’s Legacy on Linguistic
• Man is multiplied by the number of languages
he possesses and speaks,” he wrote in 1888
and he himself was a fine exemplar of this
ideal.
• Historical value of language
– Gambling was a Spanish import
– Analysis of Tagalog Sound system
21. Rizal’s Legacy on Linguistic
• Reforms in Tagalog sound system/Tagalog
Writing System(Ortography)
– Caitai/Quinatai(Using spanish system)
– To Katay/Catai (more consistent with tagalog
sound system)
23. As a Businessman
• Made partnership with locals and
Spaniards and Governor to unite for
trading purpose to free themselves from
the Chinese.
–On January 1, 1895, he organized the
Cooperative Association of Dapitan
Farmers
24. As a Businessman
• He planned to improve the fishing methods in
Dapitan through the use of big net for trawl
fishing (PUKUTAN) and teaching them better
methods of fishing.
25. As a Businessman
• He partnered with Ramon Carreon, a Dapitan
merchant in business verntures such as
fishing, copra & hemp industries
• Hemp – was the most successful business that
Rizal entered. Shipping the product to a
foreign firm in Manila.
26. As a Businessman
• Rizal also introduced a hemp stripping
machine which helped abaca farmers to
increased their output.
28. Rizal’s Legacy as a Businessman
• Philippine Cooperative Movement
– Cooperative Development Authority, tracing the history
of Philippine cooperative movement would not be
complete without mentioning the name of Dr. Jose P.
Rizal who, in his travels to Europe in the latter part of the
19th century, was impressed with the success of a new
economic movement which transformed the economic
and social life of the Europeans.
– Nowadays cooperatives basically focus on the less-
privileged members of the society. So the target of
cooperatives is to uplift the livelihood, welfare,
economic, and social status of the less-privileged
members of our society.
29. Rizal’s Legacy as a Businessman
• Philippine Cooperative Movement
– Nowadays cooperatives basically focus on the less-
privileged members of the society. So the target of
cooperatives is to uplift the livelihood, welfare,
economic, and social status of the less-privileged
members of our society.
