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People That Influenced The Life of Rizal

Erika Bernardino Rizal's mother Teodora had the greatest impact on his development and growth. She was his first teacher and taught him to read, value education, and make the most of his time. She taught him the importance of self-improvement through activities like mathematics, poetry, art, and saving money. Rizal also had three uncles who influenced him - Tio Gregorio instilled a love of learning, Tio Manuel helped build up his body and interest in athletics, and Tio Jose encouraged his artistic skills in design, drawing, and sculpture.

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People That Influenced The Life of Rizal

Erika Bernardino Rizal's mother Teodora had the greatest impact on his development and growth. She was his first teacher and taught him to read, value education, and make the most of his time. She taught him the importance of self-improvement through activities like mathematics, poetry, art, and saving money. Rizal also had three uncles who influenced him - Tio Gregorio instilled a love of learning, Tio Manuel helped build up his body and interest in athletics, and Tio Jose encouraged his artistic skills in design, drawing, and sculpture.

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Erika Bernardino

The person who had the greatest impact on the growth of Rizal as an individual, his mother Teodora
Alonso. It was she who opened his eyes and his heart, and also his intolerance and inequality, to the
world around him. His mother was his first teacher, and from her, he learned to read, and consequently
to value reading as a means for learning and spending one’s time meaningfully. It did not take long
before he learned to value time as life’s most precious gift, for she taught him never to waste a single
second of it. From his mother he learned the primacy of improving oneself- thus growing up he took
pains to comprehend the logic of mathematics; to write poems; to draw, and sculpt; to paint. His
mother also educated him to appreciate hard-earned money, and better yet, the value of thirst and self-
denial and saving most of one's earnings as protection against life's wanderings. But life, as always
happens, has a profound way of turning around, for it was adherence to the Catholic Church, as his
mother told him, which proved too hard to abide by, particularly as he suffered from a crisis of faith in
his teachings.

INFLUENCE OF THREE UNCLES

Rizal had three uncles (his mother's brothers) who played a good part and also had much influence in his
young life. Tio Gregorio was a scholar and a novel lover. He instilled in Rizal's mind that it wasn't easy to
get something until you put some effort into it. He urged Rizal to read interesting books and to learn for
himself. His great uncle, Tio Manuel, built his body until he had a body of silk and steel and no longer a
small, sickly boy. He was a wonderful and influential man. He stimulated the interest of Rizal in athletics.
Rizal learned to swim, sail, fencing, and wrestling. The youngest uncle named Tio Jose was studied at the
English university in Calcutta, India. He encouraged Rizal to design, draw, and create clay sculptures.

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