Feliz Día del Maestro/Happy Teachers' Day (Esp-Eng)

A little bit of history doesn't hurt. It is good to know the why of the days in which important dates of our country Venezuela are remembered.

It happened: On January 15, 1932, during the Gómez dictatorship, a group of educators met with the aim of defending the labour rights of teachers and optimising education in Venezuela.

Thirteen years after that first meeting, President Medina Angarita decreed 15 January as Teacher's Day.

Since 1945, Venezuela has been remembering the events of that group of brave Venezuelan teachers who confronted a dictator, at that time Juan Vicente Gómez. In addition to giving recognition to the teaching work that is done is also taken to remind the National Government to make salary improvements to the Guild of educators in the country, not only that part salary but also focus on the physical environment where teaching activities are carried out called schools.

Everyone who decides to become a teacher, some because they really like it, others because there was no other career nearby to study, others because it came to them along the way. In short, each teacher has his or her own story of why he or she becomes a teacher. Some love it, some enjoy it, others just for the salary.

But I tell you something, being with children, working with them, getting to know them, getting to know them, listening to them develops a world of learning and we want that world of each child who passes through each teacher to be a happy human being, to be able to break down all mental barriers and to develop a taste for learning, training and becoming better citizens is the desire of the majority of educators. There are moments when we even cry and laugh with them.

When children become teenagers, the work of high school teachers is admirable, to enter the adolescent world and become the counsellor and to see how some achieve academic goals, there is sadness when others decide to leave high school to go to the streets.

Reaching university level, how many learn as educators despite the fact that here there are many professionals from different areas who provide their services as teachers, this is another process of total admiration, to generate relays in the different academic areas, which in the course of the years will be who will lead the groups and forge new professionals ... some decide to follow the example but others will only dedicate themselves to their chosen profession.

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To say I am a teacher is an incalculable value, every January 15th the social networks are filled with congratulations for this guild, although each one knows how they do it so that their enthusiasm for learning arrives, igniting the spark of knowledge. Those in rural areas who have to travel to their places on mules and horses, who have to move to these spaces, who live under the attacks of parents who want their children to work only in the fields. The city dwellers with their opportunities who also face situations in less favoured areas such as the neighbourhoods and their law.

They are courageous in the different spaces where they carry out their pedagogical practice and the satisfaction they receive for the work they do.

To all the Educators of Venezuela on their day, Active or Retired as we are divided in the payrolls, a huge hug wherever they are, in this world and in another plane. They gave a lot for the country.

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