EL PRINCIPIO DE LA MEDIOCRIDAD, ¿Todo esto es un accidente?

“El principio de mediocridad sostiene simplemente que no es usted especial. El universo no gira en torno a su persona; este planeta no cuenta con ningún privilegio singular, su país no es el resultado perfecto de una secuencia de designios divinos; su existencia no se debe al influjo de un sino orientador e intencional; y ese emparedado de atún que se ha comido en el almuerzo no forma parte de una conjura pensada para producirle una indigestión. La mayoría de las cosas que suceden en el mundo son simples consecuencias de las leyes naturales, leyes de carácter universal, puesto que rigen en todas partes y atañen a la totalidad de lo existente, sin que haya excepciones especiales ni amplificaciones que redunden en su beneficio personal (y siendo además la diversidad un producto de la intervención del azar). Todo cuanto usted, como ser humano, considera investido de una importancia cósmica, es un accidente”. (Doctor P. Z. Myers, biólogo, de la Universidad de Minnesota; leído en http://www.jotdown.es/2013/02/juan-abreu-el-principio-de-mediocridad-sexual/)

CAMBIAR DE OPINIÓN, Progresando

"Necesitamos gente que nos haga cambiar de opinión. Es así como progresamos. En nuestra vida personal, en nuestro trabajo y ahora, más que nunca, en nuestro país." 

http://www.elperiodico.com/es/noticias/risto-mejide/they-might-right-2303465 

Mañana es San Valentín, PERO HOY NO.

"Entre lo poco que sé de la vida, también te diré que nada de todo esto vale la pena sin alguien que te haga ser incoherente.

Ni flores, ni velas, ni luz de luna. Ése es el verdadero romanticismo. Alguien que llegue, te empuje a hacer cosas de las que jamás te creíste capaz y que arrase de un plumazo con tus principios, tus valores, tus yo nunca, tus yo qué va.” 

(Risto Mejide, Publicista)

IN YOUR EYES, Peter Gabriel

                                                              "In Your Eyes"

love I get so lost, sometimes
days pass and this emptiness fills my heart
when I want to run away
I drive off in my car
but whichever way I go
I come back to the place you are

all my instincts, they return
and the grand facade, so soon will burn
without a noise, without my pride
I reach out from the inside

in your eyes
the light the heat
in your eyes
I am complete
in your eyes
I see the doorway to a thousand churches
in your eyes
the resolution of all the fruitless searches
in your eyes
I see the light and the heat
in your eyes
oh, I want to be that complete
I want to touch the light
the heat I see in your eyes

love, I don't like to see so much pain
so much wasted and this moment keeps slipping away
I get so tired of working so hard for our survival
I look to the time with you to keep me awake and alive

and all my instincts, they return
and the grand facade, so soon will burn
without a noise, without my pride
I reach out from the inside

in your eyes
the light the heat
in your eyes
I am complete
in your eyes
I see the doorway to a thousand churches
in your eyes
the resolution of all the fruitless searches
in your eyes
I see the light and the heat
in your eyes
oh, I want to be that complete
I want to touch the light,
the heat I see in your eyes
in your eyes in your eyes
in your eyes in your eyes
in your eyes in your eyes

ÉXITO = Talento + Suerte

'Yo creo bastante en la suerte. Y he constatado que, cuanto más duro trabajo, más suerte tengo.' Thomas Jefferson

THE POWER OF ONE, A teacher can make every child feel important.

Leído en http://www.edutopia.org/muse-power-of-one y compartido aquí (está en inglés):

 

"I work in the theater, which is a morally dubious occupation. But there is nothing morally dubious about educating a child.

Unfortunately, we treat our public schools as if there were. In New York City, where I live, there are schools that don't have libraries, schools that don't have desks. We need to give more money to schools, and we need to increase teacher salaries. If we don't give our schools the attention they deserve, we're in danger of depriving a whole generation of a decent education.

Still, I am not one of those people who believes that all is lost. I persist in believing that change can happen and that the heart of each student can be touched. I went to public school in Lake Charles, Louisiana. Schools were generally not very good there, but I got lucky. In a rather unremarkable school system, I had some remarkable teachers.

In sixth grade I had an English teacher who desperately wanted us to learn to write and speak correctly. She drilled English syntax and structure into us relentlessly. She was, to me at that time, incredibly scary and mean. All the students hated her, but the rules of language and clear expression -- pretty key ingredients in being a writer -- got pounded into my head.

This teacher is quite old now, and a little while back, she came up to New York to see a performance of my play Caroline, or Change. I met her afterward and tried to tell her how important her lessons had been to me. "Thank you," I said. "You really changed my life. I can't tell you how much I owe you."

She looked at me for a second, then said, "That's really nice, honey, but most of my students just think I'm an old bitch."

Each student, every day, is on a journey of discovery, and I believe that every single teacher can make a difference in that voyage. We can teach kids that they are special, that there are certain things in the world that don't have easy answers, that there are moments in your life that will open up your heart, that they are not just one of fifty goldfish in a small pond with a limited food supply.

When we deprive our children of an education, we've committed a crime because we've taken away their right to pursue happiness. There is no guarantee that any of us is ever going to catch up with happiness, but we need legs to pursue it. Often, those legs are supplied by a teacher.

One of the great paradoxes of life is that people are enormously resilient but also incredibly fragile. That is especially true in kids. It's hard work to be a kid, but kids have a wonderful generosity of spirit. It takes so little to make them want to try. They need loving parents and a loving home, of course, but they also need teachers who care and who don't give up. Every student needs someone who says, simply, "You mean something. You count."

That kind of support doesn't guarantee that the kid won't grow up to be a neurotic mess (although some of the most interesting people I know are neurotic messes), but it does offer them a chance to grow up to be coherent and have an internal organization that allows them to make sense of the world. Perhaps, if they are lucky, they will live a good life.

I believe that human society is essentially composed of our relationships with others. And those relationships start very early in school. As teachers, make sure you do everything you can do -- more than you've ever done. Even just a little bit more will make a big difference."

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