22 * Adriana Arboleda, famosa modelo y diseñadora colombiana, le ...

A Good Teacher
Teaches from the Heart
Teachers are never just teachers. We, as students, always wonder what
they do when they go back to their houses, what they eat, where they
hang out; who they love or hate… We always wonder, but never have the
guts to ask them… Tribuna* opened this space for those never-asked
questions that students always wanted answered.
BEATRIZ TRUJILLO ¿Cual es el filósofo con el que más te
identificas? – Anónimo
Cada época tiene filósofos apasionantes. La Antigüedad tuvo
a Aristóteles que a pesar de su misoginia aportó aspectos
maravillosos desde lo ético-político. La Edad Media, recibió
aportes de Santo Tomás de Aquino, quien concluye que es
fundamental analizar la naturaleza humana por ser la fuente de las
normas morales. La Inglaterra del Siglo XVII fue la cuna de Locke
y Hobbes, fundamentales para las diferentes visiones políticas
de hoy en día. El siglo XIX trae a Nietzsche, Freud y Marx, “tres
maestros de la sospecha” que consideraron una dimensión de la
conciencia humana que no había sido tematizada anteriormente.
El siglo XX, con el Existencialismo, trae una toma de conciencia a
las atrocidades producidas por las guerras mundiales y reflexiones
sobre una sociedad cada vez más compleja. Hoy me acompaña
además, un marcado interés por la Filosofía Latinoamericana y los
procesos de-colonizadores.
MR. BIDERMAN what is your favorite
book, besides 100 Years of Solitude,
why? - Helena Llano
Hard to say. Jose Saramago’s Blindness
and Cormac McCarthy´s The Road come to
mind. Both of those books left me thinking
for weeks—I was unable to sleep well for
many nights after reading The Road. They
offer glimpses into the uglier side of human
nature; our greedy, animalistic tendencies
that we hold at bay until things fall apart, until
the entire world goes blind, or a nuclear war
renders cows extinct.
MR. GRAHAM what was it like having
your stepdaughter in class?
In the past I have taught my brother
and several cousins. I try not to see
my students in terms of outside
relationships. My response is usually
confined to how well they do their work
and how they treat people, including
me. The only difference in this case
was that I got to see my student at home
everyday so I got to see two separate
individuals. Luckily for me, she was
a very good student and a very easy
person to live with. The real question
here is how did she feel having me as
her teacher? I know my brother wasn’t
always impressed.
MS. ARMSTRONG what has been the best experience
you’ve ever lived? Why? - Laura Gutiérrez
Living in Shanghai: my first “real” job as a professional
teacher, first exploration of a totally foreign culture, and
first try at solo travelling. I stayed for three years, and it
cracked the world open for me. I spoke Mandarin,
exploded fireworks, got drenched by monsoons, ate
things I could never have imagined, underwent traditional
Chinese medical cures, climbed holy mountains, learned
my fortune in a Taoist temple, travelled the Silk Road to
Kashgar, camped out on the Great Wall, sang “American
Pie” to entertain a Kazakh family and their goat, slept in
the Gobi desert, drank yak butter tea with Tibetan monks,
discovered Buddha, Chairman Mao, and Queen Victoria...
the list goes on.
MR. JOHNSON: What do you like to do for fun? - Anonymous
“Pounding the pavement” is my mental therapy. I’ve done several marathons and half
marathons and while running 42.2 kilometers might not sound like fun to most people, it’s a
huge adrenaline rush to be able to finish.
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