During high school I was lucky to go to a school where a third of the teachers were Spanish. He had fled from Francoism and found great and good shelter in Mexico. All the members, I don’t hesitate to write all of them, were great maestros in the broadest sense of the word. I learned a lot from them and they were responsible for training many young people under the knowledge opticsof the love for wisdom and the need to link school, politics and human rights. Mexico welcomed them with open arms and they, in turn, opened theirs to teach multiple knowledge, as well as the need to imprint on the students information about events in Mexico and in the world to give your opinion and not be simple passersby distant from the vicissitudes of our environment, both near and far.
I remember many with deep admiration and respect. At that time I went to an organization with tendencies socialists. Several accompanied us; They gave talks about Marxism and ethical principles. Quite a few wrote in the great newspaper of that time, the Excelsior. On more than one occasion I have compared them, after many decades, with Robin Williamsthe main actor in the great film Dead Poets Society (1989) in which Williams represents the attitude of a teacher of literature with students in an “elitist” school.
Every morning, before starting the course, the teacher motivated the disciples with the famous prayer, Carpe diem, through which he invited them to work, not to waste time and to seize the day.
The teachingamong other events, both at the school where I was lucky enough to attend as well as at other schools where several mentors were Spanish, allowed them, over time, to bury the quality of refugees; Soon they were Mexicans in the broadest sense of the word. In the Faculty of Medicine I was also lucky enough to be sheltered by some of them. Similar human and academic experiences happened with the Children of Morelia and with the Ateneo Español founded in 1949! The schools, the shelter for children and the open doors of the Ateneo represent the best example of the immense ties that unite Mexico with Spain.
Being a teacher is a complex task. The vast majority of the teaching class coming from the need to escape from Franco It was made up of great mentors: they planted, they motivated, they wrote and, why not say it, they shook.
The attitude of the next president, Claudia Sheinbaumby following the steps of your guide, Andrés Manuel López ObradorIn addition to bordering on the absurd, it is a preview of who will be, behind the scenes or without them, the figure who will lead the country for the next six-year term. It is unacceptable that Sheinbaum, cataloged by the press and by the Green Party As a scientist, although she has not published articles in academic journals for many years, she has not invited the King Felipe VI upon her inauguration as president. In addition to the contempt for the King, regardless of the obsolete and absurd nature of the title, Sheinbaum’s behavior fuels the attitude of his predecessor, who, on more than one occasion, demanded that Spain apologize for the “wrongs” committed during the Conquest. By mimicking his boss, Sheinbaum considered that the lack of response from the Spanish government for not backing down and accepting its guilt during the Colony was and is an act of arrogance according to the logic of both.
Claudia’s attitude is sad. good opportunity He offers him his future ceremony to celebrate the beginning of his presidency and with them distance himself from such a crazy demand. His performance, uncritical, alarming, annoying and forces us to ask: starting October 1, who will rule the country?
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