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teaching
is one of humanity's
noblest
professions.
however I personally don't believe in the traditional concept
of teaching, in which the so called students and the teacher
are in two different and, so very often, opposite sides of a
barrier that should not even exist.
through life I have understood that one does not teach unless
one's students learn.
but, if they do learn, then it is not teaching anymore, it is
more.
it is mainly
communication
through the establishment of a chain of affections, a
relationship that will allow inner interaction. but this can
only take effect if one is ready to relate oneself in a moment
of the world where teaching has become a profession that is
unfortunately not recognized anymore as noble as it
intrinsically is.
neither
Plato nor
Confucius
were teachers at their own eyes.
I doubt they would accept this professional definition.
by sharing what they knew or were in the process of realizing,
they communicated, they conversed with those who followed
them.
as in every truth, what one learns as a process of growth is
just the foundations for the building of our own truths, that
should be constantly reviewed, questioned, investigated and
journeyed.
it is
imperative
that we always resist the thought that we are the holders of
truth.
we are just making a journey and doing a labour of
finding out how much of what we believe is true, ie, makes
sense.
he who dwells in the responsability of sharing his beliefs and
limited knowledge, must be ready to acknowledge that he is
serving a
global cause;
that of helping to shape the minds and the spirits of those
who will follow after him.
I am basicaly a parent, a father, and that is my main task in
as much as I can be a teacher. but often I am given the
oportunity to work with other people, mainly young people, and
again I find hope and joy in me.
when I try to communicate, I seek the minds of those who take
the trouble or the task of hearing or perhaps listening.
having been invited to organize five workshops totalling 20
hours, for the design finalists of the Macau Polytechnic
School of Design, I decided to bring the students into
different experiences, from journeying into the world of
symbols and icons that compose a part of the unspoken
language of semiotics, to a next session of viewing a film,
the piano
player, and
inviting them to deconstruct not only the 2001 Cannes Award
winning film, but to further understand the complexities of
the human mind, and the images as significants.
Then, and in a hollistic perspective, and since the mind and
the body were treated in the film, the third workshop which
took place Saturday October 26, was an introduction to the
codification of the body and the concepts of the mind.
This modest site is a way to remember all that happened. |
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