In life, you're going to have different fathers, the bio that accompanies you from birth and goes with you, most of the time, on your first steps. You have spiritual parents who give you a sense of life that are very special in your memory to recall them in moments of encounter with her. But parents have plotted your life, because they helped you find your vocation. That was for me, Luis Jaime Cisneros. I was his student since 1978 several times during my time in the classrooms of Catholic. In many ways, he was Catholic. Master classes in which the board and used some more word, speech, were classes in which he, as a teacher, you appealed your human qualities, your sense of humor, your broad understanding of the world and your love of language you'd acquired throughout your life so that dock in their classrooms. Suddenly, we did see how wonderful it was speech, and even more wonderful to know that this was the order of the universe, a language that I used as the measure of all things. In his classes, I remember the massive presence of students not only enrolled in their section, but other visitors, Luis Jaime us was opening the mind to the university world, to what is coming ahead of us, think the fact that you are a citizen of this world, this society and your place in it. Luis Jaime did not want memorizáramos, I wanted to think. Our notebooks were full of notes for, as were extensive, extensive bibliography was also had to address, reference books, elementary books, supplementary books. He invited us to read Saussure, Martinet, Benveniste, Jakobson, Chomsky. His intellectual side was splendid and rigorous studies with Peruvian literature of the colony and a wonderful course Quixote, who took 4 months to read it in all possible planes. His pedagogic and intellectual remain in my mind for the bright classes in which Cervantes phrases were crushed to enter fully into baroque Spain that had been in the making. His thoughts were accompanied by a broad intellectual source which we volcábamos at the time when the Internet was not even imagined. And we read, discussed, indágabamos by presenting topics that we would in class. I remember his classes Generative Grammar and passion that ignited in me by the Chomsky approach under discussion.
But the most interesting background and marked my life was the man, the Professor of flesh, blood and bone that lies behind the knowledge, the person you talks about life as it is understandable and you do not need someone to give you a light to go ahead. Et Lux in Tenebris Lucet. That's why he was in some way, the Catholic. I worked with him almost a year and a half practices dictábamos to cachimbos, until one day, his parsimony, I was invited to teach at a school in Lima. He spoke to another teacher, Leon Trahtemberg , to be interviewed. Luis Jaime said, "you paste a teacher" was a 1983.
Years later, in 1999, when it was installed in Trujillo, Luis Jaime called after many years of "having lost" his way. When phone, with remarkable memory, Luis Jaime said: "Gary, hello, man what has become of your life?" Approaching him after long absence was not hard, never was unavailable to their students, or divo, or capricious. A man who conversed with another. Life lesson I learned from their actions. All were received with kindness and respect. For their visit to Trujillo, I asked him a lecture called "The Importance of Humanities in the XXI Century." His lecture, as I mentioned it a number of attendees, was of a high intellectual level, many teachers who came other areas was recognized university. But as the world now, a football game was more important to many people (teachers included) to listen to the brilliant explanation that it had served for many people now that education is a factory to make robots and money. One has only curricula of universities to see the direction they took and what Luis Jaime somehow warned during his speech.
Luis Jaime is gone. In some ways, better for him not to feel the pain of seeing the dumbing down of education at all levels, to avoid being embarrassed witness this deplorable social situation where premium ease, speed, copying and the cult of success. Perhaps you have felt uncomfortable in life, having been a teacher of people currently known to dishonor their teachings. I'm sure.
I hope the site where he is now, if it exists, I hear his teachings. Great man.
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