Mexico is the country where I was born; we have
so many beautiful places to be proud of. We have a hymn that is considered one
of the most beautiful around the world, and our typical food, well, nobody
resists to it. Even though we can presume of these characteristics and more, I
have to be honest, there are some situations which I feel really sad about.
Most people in Mexico are conformist. Why is it wrong? Because we live in a
country where you can see only two social classes; people who is in the power earns
too much money, and people who does not
have a job in the government literally “tries to survive”. Even worse, it is
the fact that Mexicans do not do anything about this situation. Many people complain on social networks, but
just a few do something to change. In the book of Juan Sánchez Andraka “Un
mexicano más” (2005), he expresses many of the situations we face as Mexicans.
I consider most of the problems we face are product of the “bad” education we
receive. Mexican government does not want Mexican citizens to think. Why?
Because smart people is not “conformist”. The Mexican government does not want
a new revolution. They do not want problems, they do not want fair people to
take their places. But let’s leave the
political situations on one side. On the other hand, we have the educational
situation. We have parents, and teachers who are not worried about their children’ education. We have teenagers
who do not see future in their lives. As Sánchez says “they do not speak about
progress”. How can we ask them to think about the future if the actual
situation they are living does not give them the opportunity of think about a
better future? Why do parents force them to go to school if they do not see the
point to study? I am teaching in Teziutlán, Puebla, in Mexico. I have talked to
my students, and they ask me: teacher, why we have to study? We can receive
more money if we sell drugs. Sometimes, this makes me feel like if there were
no more options. I always tell them,
from the bottom of your heart: Is that what you really want? Because I do not
earn too much, but I am really happy doing what I do.
I really love teaching, for this reason; I do
my best for my students to learn. But what happens when people who are called
“teachers” do not want to be professors? , or they became teachers because they
did not have another option?. They do not even care about their students. They
go to classes, and pretend to teach something they do not even know. Sometimes
as Sanchez (2005) mentioned teachers do not explain the topics, just because
one student answers all the time, you think that all your students understood. Some teachers
go to the classrooms and spend the entire class dictating, they invent things
they do not really know, they go drunk to school (teachers teaching with the
example). If you consider yourself as an
“strict” teacher, you forbid many things (you must not speak in class, you must
not run in the classroom, you must not throw things, etc). Why do we have
teachers like this? Because we have principals who are the same way. They have
power, and they waste it, they think they know too much. They presume of their
experience (which is what they have being doing wrong) Do you really think with
this you are going to have intelligent students?
Sadly, we have changed our values. Some
teachers have lost their professional goals, which is helping to others, some
have lost the interested in doing dynamic classes, some more have lost the
interest in learning.
Let’s think about our role in the mexican
society. Let’s change what we have been doing wrong. Let’s not expect someone
to recognize our work. Let’s be a good mexican, in order to have “many good
mexicans”. I want to share this phrase from Sánchez (2005):
“The education of one person, it is the education of
generations".
Bibliography
Sánchez, J. Un mexicano más. México, D.F Costa- Amic, 47ª edición. 2005
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