Sister Corita Kent, Immaculate Heart College Art Department Rules
At some point in time, it is necessary to let go whatever you hold as unmovable or dear. Call it a position in a fulfilling job, a future that was expected or just whatever notions of what your life should have been by now.
A week ago, after months of tension, I was set into a position that may or may not tamper with one of these issues and after a Pilates class, came out really shattered. What I claim to be fighting for, is the minimal aspiration of something so abstract called quality. Quality in teaching translates in the execution of many small tasks from the students, always aspiring for their best job. If this premise is lacking, then, there's no objective for the students to adhere to.
What I'm asking for is not simple, it requires an impressive amount of demand on the teacher, to work side by side in aiding on whatever the students may come up with. The result is clear when students have a solution to what was unresolved, when they clear the path and learn through a process that exerts only the best in them. Also, because the best can be placed in a more ambitious or a larger scheme of things that can provide them with a head start in life.
If this was not needed of me, then I might have been wrong all along. Then, it is absolutely necessary that things can be lost in the way while attempting to make the best for others out of something. It will hurt, no doubt. I will cry, I'm sure. But the recurring list that keeps coming to my mind is the following, originally elaborated by Sister Corita Kent but then popularized and completed by John Cage (Rule no. 10):
A week ago, after months of tension, I was set into a position that may or may not tamper with one of these issues and after a Pilates class, came out really shattered. What I claim to be fighting for, is the minimal aspiration of something so abstract called quality. Quality in teaching translates in the execution of many small tasks from the students, always aspiring for their best job. If this premise is lacking, then, there's no objective for the students to adhere to.
What I'm asking for is not simple, it requires an impressive amount of demand on the teacher, to work side by side in aiding on whatever the students may come up with. The result is clear when students have a solution to what was unresolved, when they clear the path and learn through a process that exerts only the best in them. Also, because the best can be placed in a more ambitious or a larger scheme of things that can provide them with a head start in life.
If this was not needed of me, then I might have been wrong all along. Then, it is absolutely necessary that things can be lost in the way while attempting to make the best for others out of something. It will hurt, no doubt. I will cry, I'm sure. But the recurring list that keeps coming to my mind is the following, originally elaborated by Sister Corita Kent but then popularized and completed by John Cage (Rule no. 10):
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