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LETTER TO THE UNKNOWN MASTER, William Ospina
LETTER TO THE UNKNOWN MASTER .
William Ospina .
Born in Padua, Tolima, in 1954, poet, essayist and translator, National Poetry Prize Colcultura, 1992, has published among other books "those strange fugitives from the west", "a haunted algebra" and "with whom Virginia speaks walking towards the Water".
LETTER TO THE UNKNOWN MASTER.
Governments often entrust warriors with the mission of saving their peoples. "Save the country," they tell a man on horseback that he has a spear in his hand, and that he has a heroic duty to disrupt fierce groups of armed enemies. Today, the situation in Colombia is different. It is the teacher who has the duty and the possibility of saving society. But who is the teacher? Not necessarily someone who has that profession and who is paid to teach: I believe that in all of us there must be a teacher, just as in all there must be a student. There is so much to learn that no one can afford to be only the one who teaches and no one can afford to be only the one who learns. We are in difficult times, we are in gloomy times, so we cannot afford to think that there are only specialized sites called schools where teaching and learning. The whole country is the school, the whole world is the school, and a good teacher must help us also learn the lessons that rivers give us when they overflow, the jungles when they are cut down, the industry when they are not aware of their responsibilities, politicians when instead of fulfilling their noble mission of administering public resources for the common benefit, they abandon themselves to corruption and selfishness.
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By LETTER TO THE UNKNOWN MASTER .
William Ospina .
Born in Padua, Tolima, in 1954, poet, essayist and translator, National Poetry Prize Colcultura, 1992, has published among other books "those strange fugitives from the west", "a haunted algebra" and "with whom Virginia speaks walking towards the Water".
LETTER TO THE UNKNOWN MASTER.
Governments often entrust warriors with the mission of saving their peoples. "Save the country," they tell a man on horseback that he has a spear in his hand, and that he has a heroic duty to disrupt fierce groups of armed enemies. Today, the situation in Colombia is different. It is the teacher who has the duty and the possibility of saving society. But who is the teacher? Not necessarily someone who has that profession and who is paid to teach: I believe that in all of us there must be a teacher, just as in all there must be a student. There is so much to learn that no one can afford to be only the one who teaches and no one can afford to be only the one who learns. We are in difficult times, we are in gloomy times, so we cannot afford to think that there are only specialized sites called schools where teaching and learning. The whole country is the school, the whole world is the school, and a good teacher must help us also learn the lessons that rivers give us when they overflow, the jungles when they are cut down, the industry when they are not aware of their responsibilities, politicians when instead of fulfilling their noble mission of administering public resources for the common benefit, they abandon themselves to corruption and selfishness.