A CULTURE OF FEAR: EDUCATION AND THE DISCONNECTED LIFE

What are some of your fears in the classroom? How have you dealt with them? What have you learned about yourself and about fear as a result?

well,if I met someone and I don't know who the person,I am a shy person and it is one of my fears, but when I am teaching some of my fears are my mistakes in the class like the pronunciation, if the students ask me the meaning of the words and I don't know what is the meaning, or if the nerves betray me in class but I dealt with them because I love to teach and I began to think what I can do to better my fears so before to start the class, I prepare all the information and I do my lesson plan, then I study all and I practice the pronunciation and I study all the words or the questions that the students can ask me and before I leave of my house, I shout and then I go to the school and as a result I am quiet and sure of myself and all goes well but the best, It is that we have to be careful and  we always have to prepare all before each class.

Palmer writes, “Good teaching is an act of hospitality toward the young, and hospitality is always an act that benefits the host even more than the guest”

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the teachers can be hospitable to students when they are prepared and give an effort for each class. Also, the teachers should give them all the tools that they need. And so, students can increase their knowledge in each class when the teachers give a good teaching, it is a gift for each students.
During a class, we have to be prepared and we have to give the best of us, we have to be a support them and if they need and ask some thing or they don't understand something, we have to help them because It is the way where the students can benefit of it.
As a teachers, we always want that our students have the best teaching but there are some teachers that they don't give a good teaching and they don't prepare. But they don't think that the most affected are them because if they don't give a good class and they don't help to the students. So the teachers don't do an act of hospitality with the students. It is like that the teachers don't give a good teaching. in this case the teachers fail and the students don't pay attention and they don't learn enough.
Not only the students have a benefit when the teachers practice hospitality with the students because the most benefit are for the teachers and they can have good environment in the class, the teachers have a good result of each students and as a result, the teachers can be proud to the good knowledge that the students can acquire during the class.

 What caused you to confront that fear? What helped you get loose from it? What were the results? What did you learn?

One of my fear was to be alone all the time, when I was a child, I remember that my parents had to worked all the day and my grandmothers could not look after me, my fathers didn't have enough money for to pay a babysitter and I am an only child, for that reason I could not play with brothers or sisters, it was kind of boring, so I had to stay alone all the time and I felt fear all the time but I always thought that I had to be strong because God expected more of me and my parents too, so I had to be positive and I had to have a good attitude all the time for overcome all.

Evelyn Fox Keller says of Nobel Prize—winner Barbara McClintock that her knowing came from “the highest form of love, love that allows for intimacy without the annihilation of difference”.

we can love the education but we have to be careful with the obsession in the education, we can love teaching in each class but with limit because our knowledges are the heart in the education but we need a balance into our teaching. We cannot be disconnected of the world because we need to have a relationship with the human. As teachers, we like to have the control in each class but we might abandon our illusion of control and enter a partnership with the otherness of the world.

we can teach our students that the knowledges are important in our live and they have to love the education because the love takes away fear and co-creation replaces control but also It is important that we have a connection with the world. It is a way of knowing that can help us reclaim the capacity for connectedness on which good teaching depends.