Powerpoint about Jose Rizal's early education in Calamba

1. D. Rizal’s Early
Education

2. Early Education in Calamba
and Biñan
• Rizal’s first non-formal teacher was
his mother
• Influenced by his uncles Jose
Alberto (sketching, sculpture and
painting), Gregorio (reading), Manuel
(martial arts)
• He had private tutors:
Maestro Celestino, Maestro Lucas
Padua and Leon Monroy

3. • At age of 8, he was sent to
Justiniano Aquino Cruz’ school in
Biñan (1869)
• On the first day of class with
Maestro Cruz, he was asked by
the teacher, “Do you know
Spanish?” Rizal replied, “A little,
Sir!” The teacher asked again,
“Do you know Latin?” Rizal
answered, “A little, Sir!”
Immediately, his classmates
laughed especially Pedro

4. • Experienced brawls in this school
with Pedro (wrestling), which he
won and Andres Salandanan (arm
wrestling), where he lost
• Rizal experienced two fights per
day brawls
• Penned a Spanish play and played
on the school

5. “I heard the four o’ clock mass, if there was any, or I
studied my lesson at that hour and I went to mass
afterwards. I returned home and I went to the
orchard to look for a Mabolo to eat. Then, I took
breakfast, which consisted generally of a dish of rice
and two dried small fish, and I went home to class
from I which I came out at ten o’ clock. I went home
at once. If there was some special dish, Leandro and I
took some of it to the house of his children, and I
returned without saying a word. I ate with them and
afterwards studied. I went to school at two and came
out at five. I prayed a short while with some nice
cousins and I returned home. I studied my lesson. I
drew a little, and afterwards I took my supper
consisting of one or two dishes of rice with an
Ayungin. We prayed and if there was a moon, my
nieces invited me to play in the street together with
others. Thank God that I never got sick away from my
parents.”
–Rizal on his daily life in Biñan

6. • Rizal mentioned that Maestro Cruz
“knew by heart the grammars by
Nebrija and Gainza”
• He surpassed all his classmates in
Spanish, Latin and other subjects.
• He received a letter from Saturnina
that informed him of the arrival of
the steamer Talim that would take
him to Calamba,
December 1870

7. • Went back to Calamba through
with Arturo Camps
• Heard some disgusting events (1872):
1. Execution of GOMBURZA
2. Mother’s imprisonment

8. Execution of GOMBURZA
• “Cavite Mutiny” was blamed to the
secular priest leaders Mariano Gomez,
Jose Burgos and Jacinto Zamora.

9. • That time priests in the Philippines were
divided into two:
1. Regular- Spanish priests who were
members of Spanish Orders like
Augustinians, Franciscans, Jesuits,
Dominicans etc.
2. Secular- mostly Filipino priests, not
belong to any Spanish Orders
• Seculars led by Padre Pedro Pelaez led
the “Secularization Movement” whom
solidified by GOMBURZA.

10. • Despite archbishop’s plea for clemency
because of their innocence from the
mutiny happened, they were executed
in Bagumbayan on February 17, 1872.
• Paciano returned to Calamba
where he told the heroic
tragedy of Burgos to his
younger brother Jose.

11. Mother’s imprisonment
“One day, when Teodora (Formoso) was
sick in her bed (on his locked room),
Teodora (Alonso) brought a soup on her
room. But when the sick Teodora refused
to eat the soup, her dog named “Ronquillo”
ate the soup and later died. She sued her
husband for that alleged poisoning through
his sister as a co-conspirator. Thereupon,
aided by the Spanish lieutenant of the
Guardia Civiles in their town, the case was
brought to Calamba’s Gobernadorcillo
Antonio Vivencio del Rosario who believed
the charge.” -Barbara Gonzales

12. “Our mother was unjustly snatched
away from us and by whom? By some
men who had been our friends and
whom we treated as honored guests…
My mother was defended by Fray
Francisco de Marcaida and Manuel
Marzan, the most famous lawyers in
Manila…
She finally succeeded to be acquitted in
the eyes of judges but after how long?
After two and a half years!”
-Jose Rizal in Ateneo

13. Teodora (Alonso) was imprisoned in
Santa Cruz, Laguna. To have an
immediate discharge, the Rizal family
appealed in the court but the judge
said that their appeal was contempt of
his court. In addition to her charges,
some other fabricated accusations were
filed against her. She released in prison
after two and a half years. Yet, in
1880s, Teodora imprisoned again
because of the nonsense charge that
she did not call herself a “Realonda de
Rizal” but simply “Teodora Alonso.”

14. Forced her to walk in rough roads
before being jailed in Santa Cruz.
Otherwise, there were some
discrepancies in terms of the exact
length of her first walk whether it is
50 kilometers or 16 kilometers.
According to Gregorio Zaide, she was
forced to walk from Calamba to Santa
Cruz which is more plausible in 50
kilometers. While Jacoba Faustina-
Cruz, a relative of the Alonsos
mentioned that the walk was only from
Biñan to Calamba which is also a
reasonable for 16 kilometers.

15. “Hindi natin mamahalin ang bansang
hindi natin kilala;
Mahirap paglingkuran ang bansang hindi
natin mahal;
Bago natin mahalin at paglingkuran ang
ating bayan, siguraduhin muna nating
kilala natin ito.”

16. Thank you!
YOSEF ERIC C. HIPOLITO, LPT, MA
Bachelor of Arts in History
Yosefhipolito19@gmail.com