User:Jose Protacio Rizal/sandbox

Jose Rizal,the national hero of the philippines pride of the malayan race,was born on june 19 1861, in the town of calamba laguna.He was the seventh child in a family of 11 childrens [2 boys and 9 girls].Both his parents were educated and belonged to distinguished families. his Francisco Mercado Rizal, an industrious farmer whom Rizal called 'a model of fathers,'came from Binan,laguna;while her mother Teodora Alonzo Y Quintos,a highly cultured and accomplished women whom Rizal called 'loving and prudent mother' was born in Meisic,st.cruz.manila at the age of 3,he learned the alphabet from his mother; at 5,while learning to read and write,he already showed inclinations to be artist. He astouded his family and relatives by his pencil drawings and sketches and by his moldings clay. At the age of 8,he wrote a tagalog poem,'the theme of wich revols on the love of ones language. In 1877,at the age of 16,he obtained his bachelor of arts degree with an average of 'excellently'from the atenco municipal de manila.In the same year he enrolled in philosophy and letters at the university of santo tomas,while at the same time took courses leading to the degree of surveyor and expert assessor at the ateneo.He finished the later course on march 21 1877 and passed  the surveyor's examination on may 21 1878; but because of his age 17,he was not granted license to practice the profession until December 30 1881 in 1878 he enrolled in medicine at the university of santo tomas but had to stop  in his studies  when he felt tht the filipino students were being discrimited upon by their  dominican tutors.On may 3,1882,he sailed for spain where he continued his studies at the universidad Central de Madrid.On june 21 1884 at the age of 23  he was conferred the degree of licentiate in medicine and on june 9 1885 at the age of 24,he finished  his course in philosophy and letters with a grade 'excellent'having traveled extensively in Europe,America and Asia he mastered 22 languages these include Arabic,Catalan,Chinese,English,french,German,Hebrew,Italian,Japanese