How did Rizal's education contribute to his desire and ability to defend his country against the colonizers?

Answer 1

Jose Rizal was a reformist, not a revolutionary icon, in fact, he didn't like the idea of a revolution because first, the Filipinos were not ready to stand their own and they don't have sufficient weapons, second, Rizal wanted Philippines to become part of Spain, he wanted to promote equality between the Spaniards and the Filipinos because racial discrimination was widespread during that time, he wanted popular representation of Filipinos in the cortes, third, hopefully through education, the Filipinos will have a better understanding of what he was trying to convey in his two famous books, Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo. It was through his novels that he exposed the ill treatments, the corruption rampant during that time, he wrote these two novels in the hope that the Spanish friars will realize the mistakes they have committed against the Filipinos. But as predicted, the spanish friars were angered, which was the very reason why Rizal was perscecuted, not only him, but including his family as well.