Jose rizal picture and biography of arthur
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THE HERO
OF
THE FILIPINOS
For the times and the place the Ateneo was a good school, by general consent the best in the Islands, in some respects matching well with an inferior preparatory school in America. When the Jesuits were allowed to return to the country from which they had been banished, they brought with them new ideas of education into a region where for two hundred years such imports had been rare. For all that, education at the Ateneo was not to be had except at the price of a struggle. There was no suggestion there, at least, of Tennyson’s idea of a row of empty pates and kindly Instruction tumbling in the sciences. A student like Rizal, reputed in his second year to be the hardest working in the institution, seemed like a soldier fighting in doubtful trenches; education to be won, as it were, by hand-to-hand conflict. Years afterward Rizal wrote in his own vivid style a description of the manner in which wisdom was imparted in even the highest Philippine seat of lea
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Lineage Life and Labors
José Rizal
Philippine Patriot
Dulce Et Decorum Est Pro Patria Morir Page i
In the Philippine Islands the American Government has tried, and is ansträngande, to carry out exactly what the greatest genius and most revered patriot ever known in the Philippines, José Rizal, steadfastly advocated,
—Theodore Roosevelt, then President of the United States, in a public address at Fargo, N. D., April 7, 1903.
Philippine Money and Postage Stamps, with the Rizal Portrait
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The Portrait of Rizal in 1883 Painted in Oil by Felix Resurreccion Hidalgo.
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By
Austin Craig
Assistant Professor Oriental History
University of the Philippines
Author of “The Study of José Rizal,” “El Lineaje sektion Doctor Rizal,” Etc.
Introduction by
James Alexander Robertson, L.H.D.
Manila
Philippine Education Company
1913
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To the Philippine Youth
The subject of Doctor Rizal’s first prize-winning poem was The Philippine Youth, and its theme w
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On June 19th 1861, the Mercado Family from the town of Calamba in the province of Laguna in the Philippines, happily greeted the birth of their newest member — a baby boy born as the seventh child to proud parents Francisco Rizal Mercado y Alejandro and Teodora Alonso Realonda y Quintos. They named the bouncing baby boy Jose Protasio Rizal Mercado.
Being the seventh of a brood of eleven, Jose Rizal Mercado demonstrated an astounding intelligence and aptitude for learning at a very young age when he learned his letters from his mother and could read and write at the age of five.
Educational Foundations
The Mercado family enjoyed relative wealth as landowners who rented the land of their hacienda to the Dominican friars in Laguna. Hence, education was a priority for the Mercado family and young Jose Protacio was sent to learn from Justiniano Aquino Cruz, a tutor from nearby Binan, Laguna. But the education of a small town and a tutor did not sufficiently quench the young