Despite
the family's acute financial situation, Jacinto was able to receive a good
education. He finished his elementary education in the private school of
Maestro Pascual Ferrer. Later, he was forced to live with his uncle,
the famous Jose Dizon, who enrolled him at the Colegio de San Juan de Letran,
where he obtained his Bachelor of Arts degree. He transferred to
the University of Santo Thomas for a course in law. His fellow pupil,
Commissioner Sumulong, says that already at school he suffered from an
obsession for the political liberty of his country. He was
taciturn, and though peacable by temperament, he showed, whenever occasion
required it, that he had fists of steel.
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