I am a retired teacher and have worked 36 years in teaching geography, history, language and literature in a high school in a working class neighborhood of Bilbao. My students were ESO students, that is to say, children from 12 to 16 years old. Most of them came from migrant families and so I worked with a diversity of learning styles and a variety of cultural contexts.
I have participated in Memorias Compartidas with the course “Dying with dignity under capitalist conditions” as a co-educator. I found this project extremely enriching and rewarding. It has reminded me of that great time when I was interacting with young people who pushed you to continually educate yourself to answer the questions of the group of students.
Throughout the course, these young participants have shown curiosity and a desire to learn. They are enormously respectful of us who are older people from another generation and are interested in our experiences, which must be distant to them due to age and cultural differences. For my part, I encourage anyone to join this experience.
