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Good afternoon to all.
First of all, I have to speak of the speakers.
First of all, to speak of Helder, who is making a nice seam
In between speakers. Hear me, Helder?
And I must speak of the speakers.
I love the speakers. From Dennis, who spoke of the draught.,
By the way, back in 1930, my father told me, when I asked him
‘When will the draught be over?’
He told me: ‘It can’t be over, because
what will politicians promise to end during the elections?’
So, back in 1930, -- I told Dennis this.
And it is interesting that all of them have been teachers, the entire gang has
Explained things, the computer girl, they’re all remarkable.
So, what happens is that
I wanted to tell you that I too have sat there,
making all sorts of analogies
according to what the speakers were saying.
Well, touching our subject, here it is:
Brazil is a young land and it has immense natural riches.
And it already exports that, because we are talking about exportation,
about Brazil’ offering, what Brazil can offer the world.
Now, I think the export goods,
the main raw material that Brazil can export is right here in this group,
in all of you.
Because you are the people, you have ideas.
And Brazil can export ideas.
Each of you, regardless of age or anything else,
you have ideas, and ideas are inexhaustible inputs.
So, we have that by the bulk.
I am a teacher.
And my profession's mission is to lay the foundations for the professions of all.
Because reading and writing are the master key of knowledge.
You see it rhymes and all.
So, my profession is fantastic, and I’d like to tell you
that you should do as I do. See how important I feel?
Like me, who, first of all, love my profession and have zeal for it.
Secondly, I am pleased to have this profession,
because everything you like to do, you do better.
May you be enthusiastic, like that boy,
Guti was so enthusiastic that I was impressed
with all he was saying and feeling.
Enthusiasm, enthusiasm is what gets us up.
And also persistence.
Once, as it was common back then, I was assigned by the school
to teach the times table to a little girl
who had not quite understood what the times table was, what 3 times 8 was.
That it was 8 plus 8 plus 8.
So, I was assigned to help her.
I came to my father and said...
I wanted to quit, because she couldn't understand,
there was no way she understood what was taught to her.
And I became a *** at the times table.
You have no idea... It is not just the 9 times table,
that you get one less, one more, and the unit grows.
I know tricks for the 6 times table, I know tricks for the 7 times table.
All of that to teach Jerônima.
But she wouldn’t learn.
So, I went to my father, he was a school inspector and an excellent teacher,
and I asked him:
‘Father, if I teach someone the same thing for six whole weeks,
and the person doesn’t learn, what should I do?’
So, he looked at me head on, and without stuttering, he said:
‘Teach them for six more weeks.’
I really wanted to quit that job.
So I told him...
I kept increasing the time, increasing the time until it got to
‘What if I teach them three years?’
He was writing a report at the time and he was like:
‘Won't this annoying child leave me be?'
So he said:
‘Well, how long has it been, dear?’ ‘Three years.’
‘Well, three years is a long time, dear.
It’s a long time, indeed. If you teach three years and get nowhere?’
‘Yes, father, if I teach them three years and get nowhere?’ I had hopes he would say:
‘Then you should stop teaching’.
But he turned around like so, looked at me and said:
‘Three years is a lot, but in this situation, there is only one thing you can do.’
And he held up his finger, almost to my nose, and he told me:
‘There’s only one thing you can do, dear:
keep teaching’.
So, I am persistant, I never quit.
And it is because of these teachings, for we are the fruit of our upbringing,
of all that we learn throughout our journey.
But let me tell you about my profession.
I am a teacher and we are all teachers.
You saw that everyone here taught a class,
each taught their own, isn’t it so?
So, I want to tell you about my profession.
I am not going to complain, ‘because the pay is low,
and whatnot, because of threats by students...’
No! I will speak of the beauty of my profession.
So, I wrote some quatrains.
Because, you know that quatrains are an extremely popular form.
But they say so much.
I wrote 14 quatrains, which you will put up with.
Do you want to see how much a quatrain is worth?
There is one that says... Because they summarize things.
There is a quatrain that speaks of Jesus Christ, which goes like this.
Think about this quatrain and memorize it.
‘The carpenter’s son set a profound example.
With three nails and a cross, he reformed the whole world.’
How, I want to tell you about
what I think of my profession, in quatrains.
So, please allow me.
Being a teacher
Being a teacher is glorious,
is being able to become history,
by offering the child a future of hope.
Being a teacher is feeling, deep inside the heart skipping a beat
if a student respectfully looks at you and says:
Thank you very much.
Being a teacher is being able to ban ignorance,
inspiring in our childhood
the will to win.
Being a teacher
Ah, being a teacher is having a look of complicity for having discovered the world.
There is no greater happiness than knowing that the teachings have taken root.
Being a teacher
being a teacher is managing to touch the minds of people,
causing them to open their doors to a brand new world.
Being a teacher is being mother and father, teaching letters and caring deeply
and so, while fulfilled and happy, always to love and to show new paths.
Being a teacher
being a teacher is believing that the first verb is ‘to love’.
and then proclaiming that the second verb is ‘to teach’.
Being a teacher is really missing every group that goes
and crying from missing them with a skillful smile.
Being a teacher
being a teacher is having the gift of the divine to fill a boy’s eyes with awe
when he finds the enchantment of words.
Because the world is now his without any obstacles.
Being a teacher is faithfully asking God to enlighten the young minds,
making promises and even writing little prayers.
Being a teacher is asking, for those you like, a bit of help from the parents
for those who don't walk the line. And getting no answer at all.
Being a teacher is being the first lighthouse,
it is being able to proudly say that one is safety in paths
and a designer of routes.
Being a teacher
being a teacher, oh my God, I proudly thing thee
for granting me such magical calling
Because even if occasionally I stumble, I am happy I’m a teacher.
There’s one more!
And now this is the last one because I’m adding some romanticism to it.
You will see that it is so:
Being a teacher being a part, is being almost king of the universe,
it's being able to transform lives, it's being greater than king Midas,
it's being a word, it’s being a verse!