Rizal’s Talents and Skills

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

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Rizal’s Many-Sided Personality

“Rizal’s many-sidedness was stupendous.”-Dr. Adolf B. Meyer

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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.

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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.

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Rizal’s Talents and Skills

•Actor

Rizal’s Talents and Skills•Agriculturist

Rizal’s Talents and Skills

•Animal Lover

Rizal’s Talents and Skills

•Anthropologist

Rizal’s Talents and Skills

•Book lover

Rizal’s Talents and Skills

•Botanist

This the Dao tree where Dr. Jose Rizal himself planted and nurtured.

Rizal’s Talents and Skills

•Cartographer

He drew maps of Dapitan, the Philippines and other places he visited.

Rizal’s Talents and Skills

• Chess Player

Rizal’s Talents and Skills

•Conchologist

Rizal’s Talents and Skills

•Dramatist

Rizal’s Talents and Skills

• Educator

Rizal taught in his special school in Dapitan.

Rizal’s Talents and Skills

• EducatorHis 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.

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.

Rizal’s Talents and Skills

"We cannot all be doctors; it is necessary that there would be some

to cultivate the soil."

Rizal’s Talents and Skills

•Fencer

Rizal’s Talents and Skills

•Ichthyologist

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.

Rizal’s Talents and Skills

•Linguist

He spoke over 22 languages.

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.

Rizal’s Talents and Skills

• Musician

Rizal’s Talents and Skills

•Newspaperman

Rizal’s Talents and Skills

• Physician

He treated several patients afflicted not only with eye diseases.

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.

Rizal’s Talents and Skills

He wrote poems on flower he likes very much as his poems To the Flowers of Heidelberg.

Rizal’s Talents and Skills

Rizal’s Talents and Skills

• Propagandist

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.

Rizal’s Talents and Skills

Rizal’s Talents and Skills

• Rural reconstruction worker

He practiced rural reconstruction work in Dapitan in 1894 and succeeded.

Rizal’s Talents and Skills

• Sanitary engineer

His construction of a water system in Dapitan exemplified this practice by Rizal.

Rizal’s Talents and Skills

• Sculptor

His works of his father and of Father Guerrico, S. J. typified his sculptural ability.

Rizal’s Talents and Skills

Rizal’s Talents and Skills

Rizal’s Talents and Skills

Rizal’s Talents and Skills

• Sharp shooter

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)

Rizal’s Talents and Skills

• Traveler

He traveled around the world three times.

Rizal’s Talents and Skills

• Writer

- Sa Aking Mga Kababata- To the Filipino Youth - The untitled Last Farewell

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