Today, education and treatment of children in our homes and schools is done following established norms and laws, although years ago this would only have been a dream.

This is the case of Leonor, an eleven-year-old elementary school student, who was very excited that day as always to her school in the rural community where she lived. The teacher gave them a surprise evaluation where the majority knew how to respond. But she and a group of classmates did not have the same luck. Then Miss Juliana took them to the patio, it was a sunny day, the stones of the pavement gleamed warmed by the sun's rays and forced them to kneel on them as punishment for their ignorance. The moans and cries did not move at all to that cruel and improvised executioner. When they got up they saw their innocent knees with big blisters while they listened to the incessant scolding. From that bitter experience was only the pain and the "learning" never to stop memorizing the lesson. Today, at 75 years old Leonor does not stop remembering it.