No One Is Born Fully-formed: It Is

Whether The Teacher Is Authoritarian, Undisciplined, Competent, Incompetent, Serious, Irresponsible, Involved, A Lover Of People And Of Life, Cold, Angry With The World, Bureaucratic, Excessively Rational, Or Whatever Else, He/she Will Not Pass Through The Classroom Without Leaving His Or Her Mark On The Students.

Education As The Exercise Of Domination Stimulates The Credulity Of Students, With The Ideological Intent (often Not Perceived By Educators) Of Indoctrinating Them To Adapt To The World Of Oppression.

Authentic Thinking, Thinking That Is Concerned About Reality, Does Not Take Place In Ivory Tower Isolation, But Only In Communication. If It Is True That Thought Has Meaning Only When Generated By Action Upon The World, The Subordination Of Students To Teachers Becomes Impossible.

Reading The Word And Learning How To Write The Word So One Can Later Read It Are Preceded By Learning How To Write The World, That Is Having The Experience Of Changing The World And Touching The World.

This Is The Road I Have Tried To Follow As A Teacher: Living My Convictions; Being Open To The Process Of Knowing And Being Sensitive To The Experience Of Teaching As An Art; Being Pushed Forward By The Challenges That Prevent Me From Bureaucratizing My Practice; Accepting My Limitations, Yet Always Conscious Of The Necessary Effort To Overcome Them And Aware That I Cannot Hide Them Because To Do So Would Be A Failure To Respect Both My Students And Myself As A Teacher.