1933
Rosa Elena Fergusson funda en Aracataca la escuela María Montessori, de la que Gabriel García Márquez será alumno.
1936
Gabriel cursa preescolar y 1.º en la Escuela Montessori para ingresar posteriormente a la escuela pública de Sucre. Comienza su lectura de Las mil y una noches, obra que fascina al escritor con solo 9 años.



http://cvc.cervantes.es/ACTCULT/garcia_marquez/cronologia/1927_67.htm

Biografía[…] Gabriel García Márquez aprendió a escribir a los cinco años, en el colegio Montessori de Aracataca, con la joven y bella profesora Rosa Elena Fergusson, de quien se enamoró: fue la primera mujer que lo perturbó. Cada vez que se le acercaba, le daban ganas de besarla: le inculcó el gusto de ir a la escuela, sólo por verla, además de la puntualidad y de escribir una cuartilla sin borrador.

En ese colegio permaneció hasta 1936, cuando murió el abuelo y tuvo que irse a vivir con sus padres al sabanero y fluvial puerto de Sucre, de donde salió para estudiar interno en el colegio San José, de Barranquilla, donde a la edad de diez años ya escribía versos humorísticos.

http://www.biografiasyvidas.com/reportaje/garcia_marquez/


Lunes, 21 de noviembre de 2005
Muere la maestra de García Márquez
A los 96 años de edad murió la profesora que enseñó a leer y escribir al escritor colombiano Gabriel García Márquez.
Rosa Helena Fergusson Gómez, quien fue maestra del novelista hace 70 años en el Instituto Montessori de Aracataca, falleció de un infarto en su casa de Medellín.

El Premio Nobel de Literatura la recordaba como la maestra de su vida.



http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/spanish/misc/newsid_4457000/4457740.stm

Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Founders of Google.com, Jeff Bezos of amazon.com, and many others, credit Their Montessori Education For Much Of Their Success

TO BE CONTINUED...

About teaching

Lead your child by the hand to the great scenes of nature; teach him on the mountain and in the valley. There he will listen better to your teaching; the liberty will give him greater force to surmount difficulties. But in these hours of liberty it should be nature that teaches rather than you. Do not allow yourself to prevail for the pleasure of success in your teaching; or to desire in the least to proceed when nature diverts him; do not take away in the least the pleasure which she offers him. Let him completely realise that it is nature that teaches, and that you, with your art, do nothing more than walk quietly at her side. When he hears a bird warble or an insect hum on a leaf, then cease your talk; the bird and the insect are teaching; your business is then to be silent.

Diary entry (1774-02-15) Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi

COOL MADNESS

Tyger! Tyger! Burning bright,
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?

In what distant deeps or skies
Burnt the fire of thine eyes?
On what wings dare he aspire?
What the hand dare seize the fire?

And what shoulder, and what art,
Could twist the sinews of thy heart?
...

When the stars threw down their spears,
And water'd heaven with their tears,
Did he smile his work to see?
Did he who made the Lamb make thee?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPasXx-xiAg

Questions about our universe

Professor Stephen Hawking asks some Big Questions about our universe -- How did the universe begin? How did life begin? Are we alone? -- and discusses how we might go about answering them.

EXTINTION - EXTERMINATION - EVOLUTION?

“At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate, and replace, the savage races throughout the world. At the same time the anthropomorphous apes. . . will no doubt be exterminated. The break between man and his nearest allies will then be wider, for it will intervene between man in a more civilized state, as we may hope, even than the Caucasian, and some ape as low as a baboon, instead of as now between the negro or Australian and the gorilla”

“Looking to the world at no very distant date, what an endless number of the lower races will have been eliminated by the higher civilized races throughout the world!”

“With savages, the weak in body or mind are soon eliminated; and those that survive commonly exhibit a vigorous state of health. We civilized men, on the other hand, do our utmost to check the process of elimination. We build asylums for the imbecile, the maimed and the sick; we institute poor-laws; and our medical men exert their utmost skill to save the life of every one to the last moment. There is reason to believe that vaccination has preserved thousands, who from a weak constitution would formerly have succumbed to smallpox. Thus the weak members of civilized societies propagate their kind. No one who has attended to the breeding of domestic animals will doubt that this must be highly injurious to the race of man. It is surprising how soon a want of care, or care wrongly directed, leads to the degeneration of a domestic race; but excepting in the case of man himself, hardly anyone is so ignorant as to allow his worst animals to breed.”

Taken from: Charles Darwin's The Origin of Species.

That's why I'm not a Darwin's fan!

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