IF - Rudyard Kipling

If

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or, being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise;

If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;
If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with triumph and disaster
And treat those two imposters just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with wornout tools;

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on";

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings - nor lose the common touch;
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run -
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And - which is more - you'll be a Man my son!

Decálogo de la maestra / del maestro - Gabriela Mistral

DECÁLOGO DEL MAESTRO - Gabriela Mistral


1. AMA. Si no puedes amar mucho, no enseñes a niños/as.

2. SIMPLIFICA. Saber es simplificar sin quitar esencia.

3. INSISTE. Repite como la naturaleza repite las especies hasta alcanzar la perfección.

4. ENSEÑA con intención de hermosura, porque la hermosura es madre.

5. MAESTRO/A, se fervoroso/a. Para encender lámparas basta llevar fuego en el corazón.

6. VIVIFICA tu clase. Cada lección ha de ser viva como un ser.

7. ACUERDATE de que tu oficio no es mercancía sino oficio divino.

8. ACUERDATE. Para dar hay que tener mucho.

9. ANTES de dictar tu lección cotidiana mira a tu corazón y ve si está puro.

10. PIENSA en que Dios se ha puesto a crear el mundo de mañana.

Fe, esperanza, testimonio, coraje, vida

Docente educador/a, tú eres un grito de fe porque crees en la persona;
un grito de esperanza porque siembras lo que otros cosecharán;
un testimonio de amor porque mueres un poco cada día para
que otros y otras vivan plenamente. No dejes de
sembrarte con coraje en el surco del corazón
humano, y volverás a ser pan en muchas mesas
para vivir cuando ya no vivas.