El profesor en el estudio

Abstract

My idea of a teacher is someone who enters into the classroom with texts which has already read and with books that will be slowly read again. The teacher will talk to students about these books, so they will have become, through this gesture of reading, students and studious. Teacher is someone who studies in a studious retreat, taking pleasure in it, and also someone who gives to study. It is also related with the space of a classroom, or a room, converted into a place (and not merely considered as a "learning environment"). Teacher is someone who makes his or her profession in a way of life and not just a means of livelihood or a job performance. My idea of a teacher is anachronistic, it is surely out of date and probably useless. It opposes the characteristic modes that define these times, where slowness, waiting and duration no longer seem possible and are being ridiculed as life choices. This paper is a vindication of the idea of the teacher as a studious professor who seeks to give study to his students, who go to school to learn together with others through study: reading, writing, thinking, talking.