Early education in Calamba and Binan
Rizal had his early education in Calamba and Binan. It was a typical schooling that a son of an illustrado family received during his time.
There are four characterized R’s
1. Reading
2. Writing
3. Arithmetic
4. Religion
Rizal was able to acquire the necessary instruction preparatory for college work in Manila and abroad. It may be said that Rizal who has born a physical weakling rose to become an intellectual giant not because of but rather in spite of, the first teacher of Rizal was his mother, who was a remarkable woman of good and the prayers. Mother of Rizal wrote in his student memories taught me how to read and to say haltingly the humble prayers.
Dona Teodora was patient, conscientious, and understanding. She first discovered that her son had a talent for poetry. And then she encouraged him to write poems, Jose grew, older, his parents employed private tutors to give him lessons at home, the first Maestro is Celestina and the second Maestro Lucos Padua, Later an old man named Leon Monroy, a farmer classmate of Rizal’s father, became the boy’s tutor, this teacher lived at the Rizal home and instructed Jose in Spanish and Latin, unfortunately, he did not live lens, he died five months later. After Monroy’s death, the hero’s parents decided to send their gifted son to a private shool in Binan.
Jose goes to Binan – One Sunday Afternoon on June 1869, Jose after kissing the hands of his parents and a tearful parting from his sisters, Left Calamba Por Binan he was accompanied by Paciang Jose with his cousin