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Rizal’s concept of Education
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Rizals concept of
Education
By Renato Perdon
Sydney, Australia
December 8, 2016
A BOOK
WRITTEN WITH
VISION AND
PURPOSE FOR
A CAUSE
Domingo P. Herras
Rizal taught his boys reading,
writing in foreign languages,
geography, math & geometry,
industrial work, natural study,
morals and gymnastics
The problem with Rizal is the wealth of
materials available for use. One who is
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doing a research on Rizal is always
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faced with the problem of selecting the
right and the best materials for the
purpose.
Rizal has been written as a poet,
writer, novelist, physician, nationalist,
linguist, traveller, and many other
works he excelled at. And all this
covers a short period of his life.
Rizal always considered education as a
medicine or something that could cure
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the problems of Colonial Philippines. He
believed in education that is free from
political and religious control. He
asserted that reform can not be
achieved if there is no suitable
education, a liberal one available to
Filipinos.
Rizal was not happy at the University
of Sto. Tomas compared with his
student days at the Ateneo Municipal.
At least, he enjoyed the little freedom
students were given in expressing
themselves. This he could not find at
the Dominican university.
In 1893, Rizals idea of education as an
instrument of change has not
diminished a bit. In one of his letters to
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Alfredo Hidalgo, a nephew, Rizal
stated: Life is very serious thing and
only those with intelligence and heart
go through it worthily.
In the same letter, he also told his
nephew that to live is to be among
men and to be among men is to
struggle He concluded that on the
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battlefield man has no better weapon
than his intelligence
His leaving the UST to pursue his
studies at the Madrid Central University
was in conformity with the ideas of Fr.
Jose Burgos, one of the three martyred
priests of 1872. Fr. Burgos strongly
advocated that Filipinos should study
abroad because overseas education
was considered an essential step to
achieving reform. And this thinking he
shared with his only brother, Paciano
Rizal.
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Why all these reactions? Was Rizal not
over reacting? Was he reasonable? Let
us look into one of his works to find
some answers. Specifically his The
Indolence of the Filipinos, an essay he
wrote in 1890 which described the
education of the masses under the
Spanish regime. Rizal said the
education of the Filipinos from birth
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until the grave is brutalizing,
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depressing, and anti-human.
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During the same period, majority of
student have grasped nothing more
than what the books say, not even
what their professors understand of it.
In other words, Filipinos were not
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allowed to think. Students were
subjected to the daily preaching that
lowers human dignity, gradually or
brutally killing their self-respectthat
eternal, tenacious, persist effort to
humble the native, to make him accept
the yoke and to reduce him to the level
of an animal.
In the same piece Rizal talked of the
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situation in detail. He said, since
childhood, they have learned to act
mechanically, without knowing the
purpose, thanks to the exercise
imposed upon them very early in life to
pray for whole hours in an unknown
language, of worshiping without
understanding, of accepting beliefs
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without questioning, of imposing upon
themselves absurdities, while the
protests of reasons are repressed.
This condition, he continued, made the
Filipinos accept the ideas that they
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belong to an inferior race and this
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child and became engraved in his mind
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To ensure that this orientation retained
in the childs mind, Rizal observed that
the child who tries to be anything else
is charged of being vain and
presumptuous. The curate ridicules him
with cruel sarcasm, his relatives look
upon him with fear, and strangers pity
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Rizal believed that even modest
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it might be, if it is the right education
for the people, the result would be
enough to awaken their ideas of
perfection and progress and eventually,
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This is the situation how education was
acquired during that period. Rizals idea
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of education was therefore the most
enlightened. His concept of education
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was felt as early as when he was only
16 years old.
In one of his poems, Education gives
luster to the Motherland, he dwelt on
the excellent conception of education
as a means of instilling enchanting
virtue and raising the country to the
high level of immortality and dazzling
glory.
The first few lines of the poem are as
follows:
Wise education, vital breath
Inspires an enchanting virtues;
She puts the Country in the lofty seat
Of endless glory, of dazzling glow.
And just as the gentle auras puff
Do brighten the perfumed flowers hue.
So education with a wise, guiding
hand,
A benefactress, exalts the human
band.
This is, I would say, an affirmation of
Fr. Burgos influence over the young
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Rizal, mainly, due to the close
association of his only brother Paciano
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with Fr. Burgos.
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Rizals dream of an education for the
youth has been embodied in his
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conception of a modern school or
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Colegio Moderno. A working practical,
liberal education and a system of
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instruction for the youth of the land
was envisoned.
This school was actually planned to be
established in Hong Kong but found
reality in Dapitan during his four year
exile in Mindanao.
In Talisay, a few kilometres away from
the town of Dapitan, now called Rizal
Shrine, Rizal operated a school
following the modern conception he
envisioned for his countrymen.
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It was a school fifty years ahead of its
time. A school the main purpose of
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which was to teach the students to
behave like men. Agriculture was
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completely integrated with formal
instruction and the development of
self-reliance was emphasized.
The school was unique. Intelligence
was necessary to be part of it. The
school existed for more than two
years. Rizals students became
successful farmers and honest
government officials. A Muslim student,
became a Datu while another became
the governor of Zamboanga.
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Part 4
In brief, Rizals idea or concept of
education is determined by the
following requirements:
1. The curriculum of a modern liberal
education should include either:
religion, hygiene, mathematics, the
physical, natural and social sciences,
literature (Spanish, rhetoric and
poetry), languages (Spanish, English,
French, German, Chinese and Tagalog),
physical culture, and the arts.
2. There should be a weekly accounting
by teachers of student progress and
conduct, the well-behaved ones to be
rewarded with a posting of their
names, and parents should be
informed monthly of the progress,
conduct, and health of their children.
3. The school should insist on accuracy
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and punctuality.
4. Teachers ware to be employed on
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passing an admission examination on a
competitive basis if there are several
APCO’s
applicants.
5. There is to be no racial
discrimination in the admission of
students.
6. Gymnastics and swimming are
obligatory.
7. Classes would be six hours a day
including a total of two hours of
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physical culture and the arts.
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8. Human relations between teachers
and pupils should not be ignored. The
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and be their leader and co-workers as
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9. Instruction should be practical and
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should stimulate thinking rather than
be a parrot like reproduction of book
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learning. Students should learn by
participation in a natural situation.
Field work has its place in effective
instruction.
10. Education should received
substantial aid to make instruction
effective. It is not sufficient that there
are students to be taught. There must
be proper accommodation and
equipment conducive to learning.
11. The teacher should have prestige,
reputation, moral strength and some
freedom of action.
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