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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-sidedness was stupendous.”-Dr. Adolf B. Meyer



“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.



Well-documented studies show that Dr. Jose Rizal was a polymath, with the ability to master various skills and subject.



•Actor

Rizal’s Talents and Skills•Agriculturist


•Animal Lover


•Anthropologist


•Book lover


•Botanist

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


•Cartographer

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


• Chess Player


•Conchologist


•Dramatist


• Educator

Rizal taught in his special school in Dapitan.


• 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.


•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.


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

to cultivate the soil."


•Fencer


•Ichthyologist


• 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.


•Linguist

He spoke over 22 languages.


• Lover of truth

He chided Spanish writers for not writing the truth about the Filipinos. He was always truthful since boyhood.


• Musician


•Newspaperman


• 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.


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


• 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.


• Rural reconstruction worker

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


• Sanitary engineer

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


• Sculptor

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


• Sharp shooter


• 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)


• Traveler

He traveled around the world three times.


• Writer

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

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