“When shall the night come to shelter me so that I may rest in profound sleep?” Rizal wrote in his Sept. Then again, as a child, he could have also made it dramatic than it really was,” she added. “This would really suppress the learning of a child. He had a very inquisitive mind, and maybe, he’s kind of pilosopo, that he would often get on the wrong side of the teacher and get beaten up every day,” Habana said. Guerrero is available at the University of the Philippines Diliman Main Library, from which this writer borrowed a copy for this report.Ĭiting the book, Habana said Rizal had a typical boyhood except for the fact that he was not born a very “cute baby,” especially with his “very big head abnormally large for his body,” which made Rizal barely able to walk at two years old.īut Rizal showed his prodigy even at a young age, starting at nine years old when he studied in his aunt’s house at Binyang where was taught by a stern tutor Rizal described as a “tall, thin, long-necked man, with a sharp nose and a body bent slightly forward” who gave him beatings or lashed him despite his stellar performance in school. Thankfully, a translation of the Memorias by the Rizal scholar Leon Ma.
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