Sedc Coalition EUROPE

Being a teacher means having on your back the weight of educating those who are going to take the world forward in the future. To educate these young children, to mark them, to teach them not only to read and write, but also to be empathetic with their classmates , to be good people, kind, loving, respectful … an artist who shapes the capacities and abilities of the adults of the future, and that means that you must be prepared to give everything, and have a great vocation for this work. There are people who think of teachers as civil servants on a two-month vacation who simply hang out in class and present easy assignments when they don’t want to try too hard. But their responsibility is enormous, and that must also be taken into account. Because being a teacher is not the same as being a good teacher.

It does not matter if you are teaching young students or older people who want to get that title they need once and for all to better manage their lives and find a good job. It doesn’t matter if you are a physical education or English, math or religion teacher. The important thing is that take into account all the work that you are doing, that you enjoy it , even when worse and more complicated times come when you think that none of this is worth it. The effort must be there at all times, because being a teacher is a long-distance career, of more than forty years of effort , sacrifice, but also a lot of satisfaction in knowing that you are contributing something to society with your work, that you are facilitating, improving and even changing the lives of many students, who will remember you forever. These are, for us, the qualities that every good teacher should have .

The official inauguration of the academic year has been used by the rector to remind political leaders of the needs of the University, the shortage of teaching staff, the few resources for research or the debt, always present in speeches. In addition to making a balance of what was done the previous year, of the attainment of objectives and of the fulfillment of its electoral program. But on this occasion, the current political situation has forced a drastic change of script: with the cases of the masters and doctoral theses of politicians daily in the media, José Ángel Narváez devoted more than half of his speech to analysing these “deplorable and unjustifiable facts” within the university institution which, he regretted, are calling into question university education, the efforts of students and the work of its professors.

In a very critical tone, he referred, without expressly citing it, to the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, the center of the controversy over these master’s cases, which have cost the resignation of the Minister of Health and reached the Supreme Court in that of the president of the PP, Pablo Casado. On the other hand, he did not mention the case of the doctorate of the President of the Government, which he did at a private university. “The public university cannot tolerate matters of this type happening and from here I want to condemn them and defend the work and effort of students, and the responsibility, ethics and commitment of all those who make up the university community.