Everyone is born with a facility, I was born to teach. Maria Teresa Gonzalez de Giron. Rural teacher.

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Category : Empowerment
Subtheme Professional Activity

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Mexico City, October 2001, 52p., letter size.

Fund: DEMAC. Series: DEMAC Awards.

Contest: DEMAC Awards, 2001-2002. Published: Yes.

Reference source: Jimenez Alvarez, Ana Victoria. “Everyone is born with a facility, I was born to teach. Maria Teresa Gonzalez Giron. Rural teacher” (“Cada quien nace con una facilidad, yo nací para enseñar. Maria Teresa González de Girón. Maestra rural”) in 11 Estampas de mujeres mexicanas. Mexico, DEMAC, 2002, p.179-227.

Abstract

In Everyone is born with a facility, I was born to teach. Maria Teresa Gonzalez de Giron. Rural teacher. Ana Victoria Jimenez Alvarez rescues the biography of rural teacher, Maria Teresa Gonzalez de Giron, through an interview. In it, she reveals her happy family environment during her childhood and youth. From a large family, in which she received teachings from her father, merchant, and from her mother, educated in a college of nuns where she learned sewing, embroidery, knitting, cooking, oil painting, activities that as well she taught to her daughter. Maria Teresa always had a vocation for teaching, she enjoyed teaching reading and writing. She was a teacher in several schools in different towns near San Luis Potosi. Being more than eighty years old, almost fifty years married, one daughter and a granddaughter, she feels happy of being able to narrate her life.

Keywords: childhood, embroidery, family, father, happiness, kitchen, knitting., mother, nuns school, oil painting, pdf, reading, rural teacher, sewing, stages of life, teaching, youth

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