and it’s something that I have never told in
my life and I’m going to tell it now because
it forces the situation something that
happened in the mid- 80s and
it was something that totally changed my
way to understand education the
education not focused only on
academic but the education that
It really has to do with being
human
and what happened to me in the middle of the
80’s was my first job with
children of social risk
Imagine entering a classroom pretty
wide with seven rectangular tables
tiny little chairs around four
tables painted yellow three tables
painted dark green and children from 3 to
5 years with an incredible sadness
the look on his first day of class
willing to sit the little ones in
the yellow tables and the largest ones in
the green tables also
they left me a note from my table that
he said they showed me all the rules that
I had to fulfill among them that the
only person in charge of those children
from now on it was me and I was not going
to receive any kind of help because
it’s like you know this phrase is very
old woman
the state did not have funds
then the address is the only thing
it was a very urgent case to help
clear if at that time
asked what could the
address
I had a long list of things one
you had to look at the environment
you just had to look that not even
there was teaching material in the classroom
just some empty yogurt carts
some empty bottles some used sheets
some colors nothing but luckily
there is always something that teachers
we found there was a forest to the
so our mornings will be way
to the forest and there we find all the
didactic material that we need
small stones small stones for
compare twigs if it rained mud
sierra otomí leaves everything what
we needed well solved the material
didactic and determined to measure my relationship
with the address
what is left now was what really
it took away my sleep for days and
days nights and nights I did not know how
do so that these children from 3 to 5
years they could learn something because they were
children who came with long-sleeved clothes
all year so that you would not see what
they were living therefore you
think it was very then I remembered
that there were experiences that I had
studied at the time where children of
different ages could aspire to
same common objective objectives and that
each one get to where you will arrive like this
that the first thing I did without it
I found out the address was to break the
tradition at each table there were children of
all ages and I also introduced
something that I thought really I think that
it really was what changed everything
I introduced the colorful gloves we
We were quoted from the forest beside the
children sorted they wondered
they answered ordered they created stories
everything we did in group in ap in the
forest and when we got to the class
we generated mutual help systems
those who were willing to teach or
help with red gloves and those that
we were willing to learn between
who included me with white gloves
this served was useful because
it really made them feel like a group
he really did
that they felt they were part
of something and this is so important in the
classroom
then something incredible happened that
this also kept us
excited and it was that everyone wanted
have red gloves or put them on
time with which even in the situation of
risk that I was giving them
homework for home think if you have
something to teach tomorrow to your
companions
it was a way for them to be in
that situation could come to class
with a new idea
it really worked and it really was
fantastic until two months before
finish the classes
something wonderful happened and that ‘s what
that marked my life so many today
years later
and is that the talents began to come out
I’m just going to count three cases because
I could really count much more but
we have a problem of time a girl
that when he played the mother to his children
he sent them to steal this girl with
he started telling stories in a way
amazing
this girl invented characters stories
and it became the storytelling account of
class
another child who was almost always missing
the problems I had when we
they brought a ramshackle radio it would be
the word and it sounded very bad
He started listening to music and dancing and
he contacted us all about how he danced
even I think that I dance a song
visit years ago with him moved us
all because it infected us and for
last a girl who never directed me
the word never talked to me but two
months of four years four years but
two months before finishing the classes
he started looking for leaves
corner even if they were used already
draw and from far away showed them
It was his way of communicating with me and
I was motioning for me to hang
on the wall and I dutifully hung them
on the wall I mean with this
that we know today and we are very sure of
that talents do not come out because if
they come out when we allow children to
live in a group
It’s no use that we send children
to 20 extracurricular activities to know
what talent do they have not just with
that in the schools there is an activity
powerful social networking
help altruism with passion our
social brain activates the aspect
social of our brain is turned on and
it turns on everything because if you
they think that help is help in the
classroom
really not only benefits with it
which receives more benefits from
stay because the one who gives is
exercising your talents is doing
a permanent practice and when you
you are exercising skills and when
everything flows the talents come out
naturally
the question that remains in the air is the
school failure really exists or is
that we are forcing children to
leave out before entering the classroom the
social aspect of the brain where everyone
the beings
we know that we take care of each other
because it’s something natural that we bring as
Humans
there I would like to inspire in this little
time we have the teachers already
the schools to take into account
this aspect if you want a
turtle pull out his head does not hit him in the
shell true, this is the same
let the children be free at
open air to help each other
let’s educate the heart
let’s educate humanity
let’s start there I leave the
gloves for those who want to take the
witness
thank you very much
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