Example of local educators dignify the national apostle
- Written by Niurka Rivero Navarro/Translated by Daisel Lozada Fernandez
- Published in Jose Marti
These days of January call to remember again and again the phrase of Marti "Being educated is the only way to be free" because the thought and ideal of Jose Marti are present in every action taken by Guaimaro pedagogues.
Old and new generations of educators echo the Cuban literacy campaign, a never forgotten struggle, a perennial inspiration in which stands out the name of Conrado Benítez, a young volunteer teacher killed by mercenary servants, on January 5th, 1961.
Today's times demand more dedication and greater audacity, more knowledge and love for the profession that cultivates dreams and opens the way to make clear that these can become a reality. This approach finds space in the local student centers where the students and teachers merge into a whole and make prevail the determination to strengthen human values, to internalize in the study of national history and to train the future men and women of the nation that bets on the intellect, gaining more followers in its performance and aspires every day to be better.
Educational proposals such as the "Educate your child" program awaken in the little ones the interest to learn from life. There with Mom and Dad and with the help of the promoter they know about the formation of correct habits of behavior, they enter the magical world of colors and the fantastic universe of games, those they like and excite them so much.
In the instructive encounters, the passion for solidarity and camaraderie, respect for and love of nature, and the most important, the contact of infant-teacher and family, a trinomial capable of promoting the development of an educational methodology is reborn and transcends from the Cabo de San Antonio to Punta de Maisí.
Guaimaro is privileged to have highly educated, prepared and always ready to take on any challenge without taking into account age, years of experiences, distances. Many have integrated contingents that have brought knowledge to intricate areas of territory, province and nation, internationalist collaborators join this squad that in sister nations have alphabetized with will and courage, feelings that are paradigms of a work eternalized in time with the "Yes, I can" method.
In this January, which recalls the 164th anniversary of the birth of the eldest master, students and educators from the birthplace of the Constitution honor the revolutionary who "died facing the sun" being 42, the cordial and courteous human, tireless worker, poet and orator, intellectual and artist who wore in his left hand an iron ring with the word "Cuba," the independentist who dressed modestly, the suit and tie in black, as a sign of mourning for the chained homeland, the universal Jose Marti, the anti-imperialist who knew to be hero and conquered with his talent, culture and humanism the right to be Immortal!