3. Rizal’s Many-Sided Personality
“Rizal was the greatest product of the
Philippines and his coming to the world
was like the appearance of a rare comet,
whose rare brilliance appears only every
other century.”
-Prof. Ferdinand Blumentritt
A L S
5. Rizal’s Many-Sided Personality
“Versatile genius.”
-Dr. Camilo Osias
His precocity since early boyhood turned
into versatility in later years. Being curious
and inquisitive, he developed a rare facility
of mastering varied talents, skills, subjects
and occupations.
A L S
6. Rizal’s Talents and Skills
Well-documented studies show that Dr.
Jose Rizal was a polymath, with the ability
to master various skills and subject.
A L S
9. Rizal’s Talents and Skills
• Actor
He acted as a character in one of Juan
Luna’s paintings and acted in school
dramas.
10.
11. Rizal’s Talents and Skills
• Agriculturist
Rizal had farms in Dapitan, Zamboanga del
Norte (1892-1896) where he planted
lanzones, coconuts and other fruit-bearing
trees.
12.
13.
14. Rizal’s Talents and Skills
• Ambassador Of Good Will
His friendliness, goodwill and cultural
associations with friends entitled him as
one.
15. Rizal’s Talents and Skills
• Animal Lover
As a small boy, Rizal loved animals including
birds, fish, insects, and other specimens of
animal life. Fowls, rabbits, dogs, horses,
and cats constituted his favorites.
16.
17. Rizal’s Talents and Skills
As much as possible, he did not wish fowls
to be killed even for food, and showed
displeasure in being asked to eat the
cooked animal. The family garden in
Calamba abounded with insects galore and
birds native to the Calamba environs. He
wrote about and sketched animals of the
places he had toured.
18. Rizal’s Talents and Skills
• Anthropologist
He made researches on the physical and
social make up of man.
19. Rizal’s Talents and Skills
• Archeologist
Rizal studied monuments and antique
currency everywhere he went. He drew
most of the monuments he saw.
20. Rizal’s Talents and Skills
• Ascetic
Rizal always practiced self-discipline
wherever he went.
21. Rizal’s Talents and Skills
• Book lover
He had a big library and
brought many books
abroad.
22. Rizal’s Talents and Skills
• Botanist
Rizal maintained a garden in Dapitan where
he planted and experimented on plants of
all kinds.
23. This the Dao tree where Dr. Jose Rizal himself planted
and nurtured.
24.
25.
26. Rizal’s Talents and Skills
• Businessman
He had a partner in Dapitan in the Abaca
business there (1892-1896).
One of his profitable business venture was
the hemp industry.
27. Rizal engaged in business in partnership
with Ramon Carreon on May 14, 1893, a
Dapitan Merchant which has a profitable
business ventures in fishing, copra, and
hemp industries. He invited his relative
Saturnina and Hidalgo to come to
Mindanao for some business opportunities.
28. Rizal’s Talents and Skills
• Cartographer
He drew maps of Dapitan, the Philippines
and other places he visited.
29.
30. Rizal’s Talents and Skills
• Chess Player
He played chess and bear several Germans
and European friends and acquaintances.
31.
32. Rizal’s Talents and Skills
• Citizen of the world
His extensive travels and multitude of
friends in Europe, Middle East and Asia
made him one.
33. Rizal’s Talents and Skills
• Commentator
Rizal always expresses and publishes his
personal opinion.
34. Rizal’s Talents and Skills
• Conchologist
He had a good shell collection in Dapitan.
Because of this, an American conchologist
praised him.
37. Rizal’s Talents and Skills
• Economist
He knew how to allot his scarce resources.
38. Rizal’s Talents and Skills
• Educator
Rizal taught in his special school in Dapitan.
39. Rizal’s Talents and Skills
His exile in Dapitan gave him the opportunity to
put into practice his educational ideas. In
1893, he established a school which existed until
the end of his exile in July 1896. It began with
three pupils and in the course of time the
enrollment increased to 16 and later 21. In his
letter to Blumentritt on March 13, Rizal said that
he had 16 pupils in his school and these pupils
did not pay any tuition.
40.
41.
42. Rizal’s Talents and Skills
• Essayist
- Reminiscence of a Student in Manila (his
first essay)
- The Philippines a Century Hence
(prophesied the downfall of Spain in Asia)
43. Rizal’s Talents and Skills
• Ethnologist
- In his travels, Rizal was able to compare
different races and he noted the
differences.
44. Rizal’s Talents and Skills
- He became a member of Berlin
Ethnological and Anthropological Society
while under the patronage of the famous
pathologist Rudolf Virchow.
45. Rizal’s Talents and Skills
“What moral right has the white man to
look down on the men who have similar
thoughts, studies and abilities as they
just because their skin is brown or their
nose is flat?”
46. Rizal’s Talents and Skills
• Farmer
His total land holdings reached 70 hectares
containing 6,000 hemp plants, 1,000
coconut trees, and numerous fruit trees,
sugarcane, corn, coffee and cacao.
47. Rizal’s Talents and Skills
"We cannot all be doctors; it is
necessary that there would be some
to cultivate the soil."
48. Rizal’s Talents and Skills
• Father of community school
He proposed college in Hong Kong and his
special school in Dapitan made him a father
of community schools.
49. Rizal’s Talents and Skills
• Fencer
He fenced with Europeans and Juan Luna
and other friends in Europe.
Fencing – a sport practiced at that time
only by the ilustrados inteligencia
52. Rizal’s Talents and Skills
• Freemason abroad
He was member of La Solidaridad Lodge in
Spain.
53. Rizal’s Talents and Skills
• Geographer
Title: Relief map of Mindanao
Remarks: Made in Dapitan church plaza by
the end of 1892
Title: Pacific Ocean spheres of influence
Remarks: Made during the administration
of Pres. Benjamin Harrison. Mentioned by
Rizal in his Article "The Philippines a
Century Hence", made in London in 1889.
54. Rizal’s Talents and Skills
Title: Plan for modern college (front and
side views)
Remarks: Owned by Dr. L. L. R, apparently
in Paris, 1872
Title: The lake district of central Luzon
Remarks: Mentioned in "Memorias de un
Estudiante de Manila", 1872.
55. Rizal’s Talents and Skills
Title: Plan of the waterworks in Dapitan
Remarks: Made with Father Sanchez, in
Dapitan, 1895
Title: Sketch of the Lumanao Hill where
jewels were found
Remarks: Owned by Ateneo. Made in 1895
56. Rizal’s Talents and Skills
• Grammarian
- “Estudios Sobre la Tagala”
(a birthday gift for his former instructor,
Father Sanchez who visited Rizal in
Dapitan)
57. Rizal’s Talents and Skills
• Historian
His annotation of Antonio de Morga’s
Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas entitled him as
one.
58. Rizal’s Talents and Skills
• Horticulturist
He experimented on and cultivated plants
in Dapitan.
59. Rizal’s Talents and Skills
• Humorist
There are many humorous incidents in the
Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo.
61. Rizal’s Talents and Skills
• Ichthyologist
He collected 38 new varieties of fish in
Dapitan.
62. Rizal’s Talents and Skills
• Inventor
- He invented a cigarette lighter, which he
called sulpakan, and sent it to Blumentritt
in 1887 as a gift.
- While in Dapitan, Rizal also invented a
wooden machine for making bricks which
turned out about 6,000 bricks daily.
63. Rizal’s Talents and Skills
• Japanophile
His admiration of Japanese traits and his
knowledge of the Japanese language
proved he was one.
64. Rizal’s Talents and Skills
• Journalist
He authored several published articles in
Spanish and English.
65. Rizal’s Talents and Skills
• Judoka
Rizal was the first Filipino and Malay to
have practiced and in fact, taught martial
arts sport. Jiguro Kano taught him the “Way
of Ju” which means the truth of the
universe.
66. Rizal’s Talents and Skills
• Laboratory worker
He was employed in the clinic of Dr. L.
Wecker in Paris.
67. Rizal’s Talents and Skills
• Linguist
He spoke over 22 languages including:
Tagalog, Ilokano, Bisayan, Subanon,
Spanish, Latin, Greek, English, French,
German, Arabic, Malay, Hebrew,
Sanskrit, Dutch, Catalan, Italian, Chinese,
Japanese, Portuguese, Swedish, and
Russian.
68. Rizal’s Talents and Skills
• Lover of truth
He chided Spanish writers for not writing
the truth about the Filipinos. He was always
truthful since boyhood.
69. Rizal’s Talents and Skills
• Musician
He played the flute and composed pieces of
music and cultivated music appreciation.
70.
71. Rizal’s Talents and Skills
• Mythologist
Rizal used mythology in his Noli Me
Tangere and El Filibusterismo novels.
72. Rizal’s Talents and Skills
• Nationalist
He gave full expression of the native spirit
strengthened by world civilization. He loved
and defended everything Filipino.
73. Rizal’s Talents and Skills
• Newspaperman
He wrote and published articles in many
publications and was one of the organizers
of the La Solidaridad.
75. Rizal’s Talents and Skills
• Ophthalmologist
- He graduated in an ophthalmologic
college in Spain.
- His mother who lost her eyesight in 1887,
encouraged him to take advanced training
in ophthalmology.
76. Rizal’s Talents and Skills
- He apprenticed under Dr. Louis de
Wecker, a famous eye surgeon who can set
in position crossed eyes in two minutes.
77. Rizal’s Talents and Skills
• Orientalist
Rizal admired the special characteristics
and beauties of Oriental countries peoples.
78. Rizal’s Talents and Skills
• Painter
Title: Saturnina Rizal
Material: Oil
Remarks: Now in Rizal Shrine in Fort Santiago
Title: Dapitan church curtains
Material: Oil
Remarks: Made in Dapitan, 1894
79. Rizal’s Talents and Skills
Title: A painting on a pair of mother-of-
pearl
Material: Oil
Remarks: Shells painted by Rizal in Dapitan
and given as a gift to Doña Leonor
Valenzuela and later passed into the hands
of Doña Margarita Valenzuela
Title: Spanish coat of arms
Material: Water color
Remarks: Done during a fiesta of San Rafael
in Calamba in 1867
80. Rizal’s Talents and Skills
Title: Allegory on a pair of porcelain bases
of the new year celebration
Material: Oil
Remarks: Made in Berlin in 1886
Title: Christ crucified
Material: Crayon
Remarks: 1875
81. Rizal’s Talents and Skills
Title: Immaculate Conception
Material: Crayon
Remarks: Made in Manila, 1974
Title: Portrait of Morayta
Material: Crayon
Remarks: Made in Barcelona, 1885
86. Rizal’s Talents and Skills
• Pharmacologist
Rizal treasured and popularized the
usefulness and preparation of cures for
treatment of his patients.
87. Rizal’s Talents and Skills
• Philologist
Rizal loved of learning and literature is
unequalled.
88. Rizal’s Talents and Skills
• Philosopher
Rizal not only loved wisdom but also
regulated his life and enjoyed calmness of
the life at all time.
89. Rizal’s Talents and Skills
• Physical culturist
Rizal maintained a good health by
exercising all parts of his body and eating
proper foods.
90. Rizal’s Talents and Skills
• Physician
He treated several patients afflicted not
only with eye diseases.
91.
92. Rizal’s Talents and Skills
• Plant lover
As a child, Rizal spend most of his time in
the family garden which was planted with
fruit trees, shrubs and decorative trees. His
diaries contained detailed description and
sketches of plants, flowers and fruits he
saw in the places he visited.
93. Rizal’s Talents and Skills
• Poet
Rizal wrote over 35 poems including his famous
Mi Ultimo Adios, To The Philippines, Our Mother
Tongue, Memories of My town, Hymn to Labor,
Kundiman, A Poem That Has No Title, Song of
Maria Clara, To the Philippines Youth, To
Josephine, Education Gives Luster to the
Motherland, To the Virgin Mary, Sa Aking mga
Kabata and others.
94. Rizal’s Talents and Skills
He wrote poems on flower he likes very
much as his poems To the Flowers of
Heidelberg.
96. Rizal’s Talents and Skills
• Politician
Although Rizal did not engage in politics, he
exposed the evils of the political activities
of the Spaniards in the Philippines through
his writing.
97. Rizal’s Talents and Skills
• Polyglot
Rizal spoke and wrote in 20 languages.
98. Rizal’s Talents and Skills
• Proofreader
In Germany, he worked as a part-time
proofreader of his livelihood.
99. Rizal’s Talents and Skills
• Propagandist
As a reformer, Rizal encourages the
recommendation of improving the
government entities and discourages
abuses on publishing articles.
100.
101. Rizal’s Talents and Skills
• Public relation man
He worked for better cooperation of rulers
and subjects in his country.
102. Rizal’s Talents and Skills
• Reformer
He published the modern methods of
government administration, so changes
could be made.
103. Rizal’s Talents and Skills
• Researcher
Being a wide reader, he compared the old
and new practices in life.
104. Rizal’s Talents and Skills
• Revolutionist
Rizal encouraged reforms; discouraged old,
impractical usage, and desired new and
useful laws to benefit his countrymen. He
desired changes for the better.
105. Rizal’s Talents and Skills
• Rhetorician
Rizal has always practiced the art of
persuasive and impressive speaking and
writing.
106. Rizal’s Talents and Skills
• Romantic
There were at least nine women linked
with Rizal; namely Segunda Katigbak,
Leonor Valenzuela, Leonor Rivera,
Consuelo Ortiga, O-Sei San, Gertrude
Beckette, Nelly Boustead, Suzanne Jacoby
and Josephine Bracken. These women
might have been beguiled by his
intelligence, charm and wit.
116. Rizal’s Talents and Skills
• Sharp shooter
He could hit a target 20 meters away.
117.
118. Rizal’s Talents and Skills
• Sinologist
Rizal’s ancestry and his ability to speak
Chinese made him one.
119. Rizal’s Talents and Skills
• Sociologist
In Rizal’s study of Philippines social
problems, he always encouraged and
introduced solutions.
120. Rizal’s Talents and Skills
• Sodalist
He always joined fraternities, associations
and brotherhood, for self-improvement.
121. Rizal’s Talents and Skills
• Sportsman
He engaged from a surveying class at the
Ateneo after passing his A. B. there.
122. Rizal’s Talents and Skills
• Tourist
He was considered the foremost tourist
due to his extensive travels.
123. Rizal’s Talents and Skills
• Translator
- Christmas message (Hebrew to Spanish)
- William Tell and Andersen Fairy Tales
(German to Tagalog)
- The Rights of Man (French to Tagalog)
- Zend-Avesta (Arabic to Spanish)
124. Rizal’s Talents and Skills
• Traveler
He traveled around the world three times.
125. Rizal’s Talents and Skills
• Tuberculosis expert
For having cured himself of this disease, he
became and was recognized as an expert.
126. Rizal’s Talents and Skills
• Universalist
Rizal was the product of the very first
synthesis between the civilizations of the
East and the West. In his person embodied
the ideals of the both.
127. Rizal’s Talents and Skills
• Writer
- Sa Aking Mga Kababata
- To the Filipino Youth
- The untitled Last Farewell
129. Rizal’s Talents and Skills
• Youth leader
He considered the youth as "the hope of his
Fatherland."
130. Rizal’s Talents and Skills
• Zoologist
- He was fond of pets. He researched later
on their physiology, classification and
habits.
- A regular contributor of specimens of
reptiles, mammals, birds, fish, insects,
crustaceans and other invertebrates to the
Dresden museum.
131. Rizal’s Talents and Skills
- When he was an exile in Dapitan, he
collected different kinds of species of
animals. Among there were the Draco
Rizali (Wandolleck), a specie of flying
dragon; Rachophorous Rizali (Boetger), a
hithertho unknown specie of toad; and
Apogonia Rizali (Heller), a small beetle,
which were later named after him.
135. Rizal and The Revolution
• Ang pagtanggi ni Rizal sa pag-aaklas ng
mga Pilipino laban sa gobyerno ng panahon
na iyon.
• Hindi pagpansin ng mga Pilipino sa
pagtanggi ni Rizal sa Rebolusyon ng mga
Katipunero
• Sa mga Rizalista, si Rizal ay ginawang
simbolo ng kalayaan ngunit hindi naman
niya ninais na humiwalay sa pananakop ng
Espanya.
136. An American-Sponsored Hero
• Isang kamalian na ginagawa ng mga Pilipino ngayon ay
ang pagsasamba ng husto sa mga ginawa ni Rizal na
nakakalimot na natin ang mga taong talagang lumaban
upang makamit ang kalayaan laban sa pananakop ng
Espanya.
• Si William Howard Taft ang nagparangal kay Rizal ng
titulong pambansang bayani dahil sa kanyang edukasyon,
katayuan sa buhay, at sa kanyang hindi paglaban sa
gobyerno o sa mga sumasakop sa kanila.
• Binigyang diin din ng mga Amerikano na si Rizal ay
repormista at hindi seperatista.
137. The Role of Heroes
• Kahit wala si Rizal ay may ibang tao ang
magsisilbing ‘bayani’ o tagapagtulak sa iba na
kumilos laban sa mga mananakop.
• Maaaring napabilis niya ang takbo ng rebolusyon,
ngunit
• Kahit wala siya ay maipagpapatuloy pa rin ang
paglaban ng mga Pilipino laban sa Espanya.
• Kahit wala ang isang tao ay merong isang taong
lalabas at gaganap ng layunin na iyon sa panahong
iyon.
138. Innovation and Change
• Material progress set the stage for cultural
and social changes
• Economic growth and Development
• Abaca at Asukal
• Ang mga pagbabagong ito ang naging sanhi
ng pag-unlad ng komunikasyon at kalakalan
sa Europe at sa Amerika.
139. The Ideological Framework
• Hispanization
• “equality with the peninsulares – not in the abstract, but in practical
economic and political terms.”
• “constituted the ideological expression of the economic motivations of
affluent indios and mestizos.”
• “He had to become a Spaniard first before becoming a Filipino.”
• Si Rizal bilang isang ilustrado ay ginampanan niya yung mga layunin
niya para sa bayan niya at sa mga kababayan niya.
• At yung layunin niya ay gawing probinsya ng Espanya ang Pilipinas.
140. The Concept of Filipino
Nationhood
• Filipino - originally referred to the creoles.
• Sila yung mga Espanyol na pinanganak sa Pilipinas.
• Españoles-Filipinos or Filipinos.
• Indios ang tawag sa mga katutubong Pilipino.
• Natanggap ng mga idios ang pagka-Filipino dahil
napatunayan nila na kapantay na nila ang mga Espanyol sa
kultura at sa pag-aari.
• “Rizal’s intellectual excellence paved the way for the
winning of the name for the natives of the land.”
141. The “Limited” Filipino
• Ang mga “limited” na Pilipino ay ang mga Pilipinong may mataas na
antas ng edukasyon at mayaman.
• Tunay na Pilipino- ang nakakawala na sa pananakop ng iba
• Si Rizal ay nakuha ang karapatan sa para sa mga tao ng Pilipinas na
gamitin ang terminong Pilipino bilang isang ilustradong nagsasalita
para sa mga indio.
• Si Rizal ay gusto ang kalayaan ngunit hindi sumusuporta sa paraan
na pag-aaklas upang makamtan and kalayaan.
• Si Rizal bilang modelo ng isang edukadong mamamayan.
• Hangga’t hindi pa edukado at nakatatayo sasariling paa, hindi pa
mainam ang “independence”
142. Precursors of Mendicancy
• Ang hati pagitan ng mga mayayaman at ang
mga masa.
– Ang mga elite ay mataas ang tingin sa kanilang
mga sarili na para sa kanila sila lamang ang
maaring magsalita para sa mga tao.
– Ang mga tao naman ay may sariling mga
kagustuhan at sariling mga opinion, ito naman ay
ikinagulat ng mga ilustrado sapagkat hindi nila
matanggap na ang mga masa ay gumagawa o
gumagalaw nang hindi na iniintay ang kanilang
salita.
143. Ilustrados and Indios
• Katipunan ni Bonifacio- ang kanilang pag-aaklas ay patunay ng
kanilang kakayahang gumalaw sa sariling mga paa.
• Mas unang nakaaangat ang mga indio kumpara sa mga ilustrado.
• Ang mga nagawa ni Rizal ay naging importante at kinakailangang
pangyayari para sa ebolusyon ng Pilipinas.
• Kailangang mailagay sa tamang lugar bilang isang dakilang
Pilipino si Rizal. Dapat nang makita na si Rizal ay hindi ang
nakapagbigay ng pinakadakilang aksyon para sa kadakilaan ng
bansa.
• Ang naibahagi ng bawat bayani ay hindi nababaliwala ngunit may
tamang puwang sa pagdevelop ng isang bayan.
144. Blind Adoration
• Ang paghanga sa bayani ay dapat
makasaysayan at dapat may
pinagbabasihan.
145. Limitations of Rizal
• Si Rizal ay may limitasyon sapagkat siya’y
nabuhay sa panahon kung kailan may
pananakop na hindi tulad ngayon.
• Maaring magamit ang mga sinabi ni Rizal
dati sapagkat may mga aspeto sa buhay ng
mga Pilipino ngayon na parehas pa din
mula noon ngunit hindi lahat.
146. The Negation of Rizal
• Bagong bayani ay kailangan. At nang hindi
na umasa kay Rizal lamang.
• Ang tunay na bayani ay kabilang sa mga
masa at hindi nakatataas.
