Whereas in the past we risked our lives for noble heroic causes, nowadays the comfort injected into our veins makes it an extra effort to roll up our hearts till our teeth.
This expression translated into educational terms might go something like this:
An educator can explain a million things, an educator with vocation goes further and makes you feel them.
– Which of both do you belong to?
Or, perhaps, you might be thinking:
– Are you kidding me?
Don’t think I’m talking about good and bad educators, no way. My review does not go there. I’ll try to define one and the other.
Those in the first group could be defined more or less like this:
Some teachers go around living with their disinterest on their backs, and sometimes they find it hard to remember the chord that implored their minds to repeat why they wanted to teach. Like someone who repeats course and still doesn’t learn more.
They dress in winter while their dreams are falling off, like the leaves of the trees that kiss the ground, while the air of oblivion plays with them.
But sometimes… Sometimes oblivion is wrong. And this is where those of the second group come into play. A group that could be demarcated, more or less, as follows:
Those teachers who have taken off their wings-proof vest, so that the instinct for change can shoot them head-on and at point-blank range.
They were looking for a war and they found one called “Passion”. Passion for what they do, passion for what they communicate, passion for the change generated by their passion.
Giving up is another form of passion, yes, but perhaps less beautiful for them.
Maybe now you will understand better the question, maybe now you will meditate better on the answer. So I ask you again, but just stop, and with your lost gaze and your thoughts found, answer yourself:
– Which of both do you think you belong to?
Santiago Sánchez
