Enrique Mendiola
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Enrique Mendiola was born on May 3, 1859 in San Miguel, Manila,[3] son of Quintín Mendiola, a blacksmith, and María Escolástica Victorino.[4]
He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from Manila's Colegio de San Juan de Letran. He began teaching after graduating from the University of Santo Tomas in law and later completed a course in philosophy and literature.[1]
Founder of schools
Mendiola founded the school named La Invención de la Santa Cruz (translation: The Invention of the Holy Cross) on Ongpin Street in Binondo, Manila — one among the first and unique schools administered by Filipinos at that time.[5] This school offered education from elementary to high school. In the second semester of the academic year 1898-1899, the school began offering English language courses under an American teacher.
Mendiola became the director of the Instituto Burgos school established by the Philippine revolutionary government in Malolos, Bulacan, and after that, during the United States occupation of the Philippines, he founded the school, Liceo de Manila together with other prominent figures of the Revolution.[6] The President of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt, recognized and warmly congratulated Mendiola in a historic letter,[7] for his important contributions in the field of education.
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