Jesuit Education system during that

time used a unique motivation and

stimulation to attain learning from
students.
The class was divided into two
groups:
1. Roman Empire
2. Corthoginians
• Emperor- If the student manifested
exceptional talent you will become an
emperor of the class.
• Father Jose Bech- Rizal’s first proffesor in
ateneo.
• In just one month, Rizal become the
Emperor of the class, Why? Because, Just a
borely a week as a student in ateneo, Rizal
started to him improve his class standing like
Roman chariot an enemy.
First Year in Ateneo:
• Half of this year of study, Rizal was good one.
• He was the brightest pupil in the whole class.
• He win his first prize for a religious picture.
• He took a tutor at the Santa Isabel College to
improve his Spanish language.
Second half
• was not as good as the first one because he
resented the remarked of his proffesor.
• He was second in the class
Dona Pepoy- Is the name of the owner of the
boarding house of Rizal which is inside
Intramuros on his first year in the City.
Second Year in Ateneo:
• While Rizal’s mother was still in jail, he
envisioned in his dream that she would be
released in three month, which on
coincidence.
• Despite the emotional hurt, which Rizal
felt because of the situation of Doña
Teodora being in jail, Rizal was able to
take home at the end of the year and
maintained his excellence in class.
Third Year in Ateneo:
• Rizal’s mother was finally released from
jail by a Supreme Court order and happily
reunited with her family and favorite son
Jose Rizal.
• At the end of the school year, Rizal
received again a medal in Latin and
maintained his excellence in class.
Fourth Year in Ateneo:
• Rizal’s most fruitful year of schooling.
• He became interno of Ateneo.
Interno- meaning he stay inside the school
campus which enable him to concentrate
more on his studies.
• He meet also a professor who inspired him
to study harder and write poetry.
Fr. Francisco Paula Sanchez- a great
educator and scholar and he was the
favorite professor of Rizal
• At the end of the year he brought home
five medals and excellent ratings.
The last year of Rizal in Ateneo was a
mixture of happiness and sadness.
• Happiness because he received the
highest honor in their graduation .
• Sadness because he will be leaving a
school which he dearly loved.
Rizal’s interest in reading never
stopped, he was very much
influenced by Don Francisco who
stored volumes of books in their
Calamba residence. He read
different novels, romantic,
emotional, notes, articles, and
books. Some of the readings were
as follows:
The Count of Monte Cristo
Written by alexander Dumas, the
novel was about the hardship of an
imprisoned hero who later escaped and
obtained his revenge against those who
inflicted him pain and suffering. This
novel left a mark in Rizal’s views in
life, due to the suffering of Edmond
Dantes the hero of the novel.
Universal History
This book was bought by Rizal’s
father and was authored by Cesar
Cantus. The book was a rich source of
historical facts about world history.
Rizal used this material extensively
while studying in Ateneo.
Travels In the Philippines
This was authored by a German
scientist named Dr. Feodor Jagor who
traveled in the Philippines from 1859
to 1860. Rizal read the observation of
Dr. Jagor on the weaknesses of the
Spanish colonization of the country
and prophosted the revolution and
liberation of the Philippines.
In 1875, Jose Rizal returned to Manila
with new vigor and inspiration after
the release of his mother in jail. He
was also inspired into learning thIne
different facets of knowledge through
the support of Fr. Francisco Sanchez.
Rizal described him as a “model of
rectitude and love for the students,
When he was in Ateneo de Manila,
Jose Rizal wrote poems in various
topics, from 1875 to 1877. He wrote
poems about discovery, exploration,
religion, war, education, childhood
memories, politics and religion.
These poems were as follow:
Poems of Rizal Written in 1875
• A poem composed by Rizal entitled
Felicitation or in Spanish “Felicitation” when
he was 14 years old. He dedicated the
literary piece to his brother-in-law Antonio
Lopez.
• El Embarque: Himno a la Flota de Magallanes
(The Departure Hymn to Magellan’s fleet)
This poem was composed by Rizal in
December of 1875 to give tribute on the
voyage of Magellan to the Philippines. The
poem was publicly read in school program in
Ateneo for the purpose recognizing Rizal and
the poems content.
• El cautiverio y el triunfo (Captivity and
Triumph) This poem was dated December 3,
1875, Jose Rizal highlights the triumph of the
count of Cabra and Don Diego, as they
defeated the last member of the Muslim
Kingdom of Granada.
• Y Es Español: Elcano el Primero en dar la
Vuella al Mundo (Elcano Was a Spaniard, the
First to Circumnavigate the Earth) In this
poem, Rizal showed a predilection for
historical subjects. He wrote the piece on
December 5, 1875.
• El Combate: Urbiztondo, Terror de Jolo
(The Battle: Urbiztondo, Terror of Jolo).
Another poem composed by Rizal which is
a testimony of his being a young historian.
In this piece, Rizal hailed Governor
General Urbistondo, for his successful
battles again Muslims in Mindanao .
Poems of Rizal Written in 1876
• Recuerdo a Mi Pueblo (Memories of My Town)
In this poem, Rizal expressed his appreciation
and love for Calamba, his hometown and
birthplace. He wrote this piece at the age of
15, in 1876. Rizal mentioned the lagoons,
flowers, forest, rivers and freshness of the
wind in Calamba.
• Por la Educacion Recibe Lustre la Partria
(Through Education Our Motherland Receives
Light) Rizal composed this poem in 1876,
when he was 16. He was already advocating
that education was important in the country.
Rizal compared education in goodness of
light, wisdom, hope, piece and truth.
• Entrada Triumfal de las Reyes Catolices en
Granada (Triumphal Entry of the Catholic King
in Granada) This was another of young Rizal’s
manifestation of his love for history as
expressed in this poem that the wrote in
December 3, 1876.
• Allanza Intima Entre la Religion la Buena
Educacion (Nimate Zalliance Between Religion
and Education) Rizal wrote this poem in April
of 1876, in this piece he expressed his belief
that in aming excellent education, a student
must give importance to religion by following
Gods teachings, in order to attain the totality
of man.
• A La Virgen de Antipolo (To the Virgin of
Antipolo) This is was composed by in Rizal in
April 19,1876, which he dedicated to he
revered Mother of Jesus Crist.
Saint Eustache the Martyr – While a student at
Ateneo, Jose Rizal was a favorite of his
rhetoric professor Father Francisco de Paula
Sanchez, S.J, in the summer of April to May of
1876, he requested Rizal to versify this work
Rizal finished the composed versification on
the first day of the academic year.
 Titus ------------------ Younger Son of the
Eustache
 Hadrian --------- Emperor of Rome from 117
to 138 A.D
 Flavius ----------- Older Son of the Emperor
and rival
of Eustache
 Claudius -------- Friend of Flavius
 Eustache ----------------- Roman General
 Cornelius -------- Favorite of the Emperor and
rival
of Eustache
 Metellus ------ Friend of Eustache
 If was not vanity that impelled me’ to put in
verse this religious and useful tragedy entitled
Saint Eustache. My only desire is to learn how to
versify, to find an inappropriate word to
criticize, a verse harsh and poorly constructed,
obscure expressions needing illumination, and
similar defects characteristics of a new and
inexperienced writer. Moreover , What can I do?
My limited talent, it is not my mother tongue,
do not furnish me with abundant downed with a
lively imagination, I lack good taste and I am
very young 14 years old going on 15
 Heroismo (Heroism)
And your audacious heart hopes to subdue
The fierce sea’s terrible rage
That when the fiery tempest roars
In mass it rises gloomy and grave?
Oh? Who could calmly contemplate
The iron cold of bloody fate,
That the roar of the wind which resounds
In the abyss a sad tomb hopes?

What lies beyond? Only death,

The dark sea that dreadfully terrifies
And infuses fear in the stoutest heart,
Where at each instant darkly appears
The tempest, with the mariner in doubt
How to guide his ship in such calamity:
And the waters bury him in the depts
Where a thousand horrible monster hide