"If nothing is done immediately, many cohorts of students will miss their educational opportunity and sink into poverty." A quote from the final paragraphs of the book in front of me. It is a World Bank Country Study, Peruvian Education at a Crossroads: Challenges and Opportunities for the 21st Century. Written in 2001 the book has five chapters that only take up 68 pages of this 281 page book. The remaining pages are all taken up by the appendix and background notes. Por ejemplo, for the chapter that most intrigued me, the one about teachers, there was a background note last 15 to 20 pages explaining how teachers become teachers. Why this couldn't've just been part of the normal chapter I'll never know. I just finished this book not but an hour ago...and when I say "finish," I don't mean that I read every page, cover to cover. It means that I "finished," all of the chapters and only read the background notes that appealed to me...like the one about teachers.
This book is just one book from the stack of books I have about education in Peru in my room. Combine those with the education books I have to read for my classes then I'm doing to major learning about learnering. I am going to start coaching at BV again in the afternoon but I still I'm longing to find work for the morning/early afternoon and weekends. I would love to have a job in a school because I miss being around students all of the time, I miss the lil' scamps.
My reading is a nice way for me to stay connected to Cusco. I sit here now with the TV off and no music...ergo, no distractions. This is when my longing is the strongest. My life is so connected to Cusco that it will truly never leave my mind ( don't worry Cusco you'll always be on my mind when I am living in you again...not creepy, I promise) I am choosing not to build a bridge and get over it (here comes the garbage metaphore) but instead to build a dam and channel that energy towards making my all my decisions focused and I am able to live up to my dreams.
Random factoid: Peruvian teachers make roughly $3,000 a year
La Cultura Cura
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