Friday 15 January 2021
Back to school
The Christmas holidays are over and we are back at
school. These holidays seemed bigger, because of the quarantine that
preceded.
Lessons are now continuing normally, in
the classroom and not online.
Fortunately for all of us, education and learning presuppose teaching live,
with the physical presence of the teacher with his students.
Distance education lags far behind and makes it difficult for young students,
especially in primary and kindergarten.
It filled the school again with children's voices, the classrooms found a
reason to exist again, the students and the teachers continued their lessons
and everything found its daily rhythm.
When I walk on empty streets, I think that the world will cease to exist when
there will be no more children. Children are life and
with their voices, toys and laughter, they give us strength and energy to keep
living. Children do not let you give up.
It is a source of life, joy and creation.
The morning I entered the teachers' office, the αrt
teacher noticed the mask I was wearing.
_ Let me see you! Is it Van Gogh? she asked me.
_ Yes, I
did. I'm glad you noticed, I smiled at her.
_ Where
did you get it?
After
informing her, I told her that I was very happy that she recognized the design of Van Gogh with sunflowers.
Then
she asked me laughing:
_ Did
I make you the day?
_ Fortunately, I replied, there is hope!
When she later
came into my class to teach, she
told the children:
_ Do you remember talking about a painter
who painted sunflowers? Someone in here
wears a mask like that, but not me.
Everyone
looked at each other, a student raised her hand to answer and another student was
thrown out:
_ The teacher!
_What was the name of the painter, remember?
_Vincent
Van Gogh, another student replied.
_Well done for remembering it, the αrt teacher told her.
_ Now I am doubly happy, I replied to my colleague.
Today you finally made me my day!
Anthoula P. Veziri
