The essential role of the teacher in Cuba
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Photo: GranmaHavana, Aug. 14. - The recent calls made by President Miguel Díaz-Canel to rescue decency are not only for our artists, parliamentarians and public servants. Nor should they be understood as an alien entrustment in which we have the role of passive spectators.
Although each one from his occupation or trade fulfills a function in this collective endeavor, there is a profession whose role is essential in everything we want today for the country: that of teacher.
The work of the teacher is measured by the good he does to his peers, being from modesty a perpetual seeker of wisdom, always at the service of the community and the family in the preparation of the citizen that society demands and deserves.
In this month of July, in Havana, 409 young people from the University of Pedagogical Sciences received a Bachelor of Education degree and another 20 integrated the first Higher Technician graduation as basic secondary teachers.
They are new professionals trained with scientific level and academic quality in a country where equity, justice and equal opportunities are pillars of their social system, and that are destined to contribute to the growth of the nation not only from knowledge, but also from civility
Talking with some of these graduates served not only to verify how grateful and committed they are with the noble work of transmitting values, but to feel the passion they feel for teaching. "We are going to do it with great care and enthusiasm, because we are proud of that," said Marcel Mendoza Zúñiga, a graduate of a Degree in Special Education and a Gold Degree.
David Almeida Martínez, a graduate of the Bachelor of Education, Spanish-Literature, Gold Degree, integral avant-garde of the university, is also already part of this new generation of educators, repositories of the best traditions of the Cuban teaching, called to preserve the work educational.
Minutes after receiving his diploma he gave his opinion on the role of the school in the battle that the President is calling for decency and civility, and their relationship with values.
«We must continue to prepare ourselves and continue to be representatives of the Cuban ideology, of the morality that has always been instilled in us. Following the thinking of the main pedagogues - which is the legacy we have - and the thought of Fidel. I think we will be the teachers in charge of perfecting the future ».
He also maintained that «the Cuban teacher not only takes into account the instructional component, but also the training that is present within that Cuban school, revolutionary for others». (Granma)
