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"Well, on this, my position is quite radical. I think we learn to teach by contagion, we learn to teach because we have met a teacher, we learn to teach through the impact we have had with a master, and the art of teaching comes from the love we have for a master. I remember a teacher telling me how his passion for physics was born, and it began in high school when an old professor of his, while teaching, would work hard at the blackboard and come out at the end of the lesson all plastered up like a house painter. This teacher, at a certain point in his life, when he became a physics professor himself, leaving the classroom, after struggling with the blackboard for an hour, realized he was covered in chalk in exactly the same position his professor was in when he ignited in him the desire to know. This is the transmission: one becomes a teacher because he has been taught, but with an addition - good teachers are not only those who are so-called competent, competence is certainly an attribute of the teacher, I for one For example, I wouldn't be able to talk about anything other than what I know, and it's not such a given that you should talk about what you know and avoid talking about what you don't know. But beyond competence, there's another fundamental element: the desire to teach. When is a teacher effective?A teacher is effective when he or she is in the classroom and wouldn't want to be anywhere else. While he or she is in the classroom, while I am in a university classroom, I only want to be there, in that moment, with my students, with my notes, with the ideas I have in my head and that I am trying to convey. There is no other place I would rather be. If we ensure this present presence of the teacher, we have already achieved a lot. Teaching without a relationship, without the teacher's present presence, without the desire to teach, does not exist.
On this point, there is an Infinity Lessons from the series "How We Treat People" , written by Afrika Bambaataa himself , which shows us how he was taught by his teacher at that time.
Infinity Lesson
The Cleaning Lady
During my second month in college, our professor gave us a test. I was a conscientious student and quickly passed all the questions until I read the last one: "What is the name of the woman who cleans the school?"
It was definitely some kind of joke. I had seen the cleaning lady several times. She was tall, dark-haired, and in her 50s, but how could I know her name? I handed in my paper, leaving the last question blank. Just before the class ended, a student asked if the last question would affect the test grade.
"Absolutely," the professor replied. "In your career, you will meet many people. All of them are important. They deserve your attention and interest, even if all you do is smile and say 'hi.'"
I have never forgotten that lesson. I also learned that her name was Dorothy.
Another moment where Bambaataa was taught , and drew inspiration, inspiration that then led to the vision of the Universal Zulu Nation , was the example of the Ghetto Brothers and the Peace Treaty signed between the gangs . This shows us how Bambaataa created , with other people, the Universal Zulu Nation because he in turn was taught , and this led him to teach and transmit knowledge through the Infinity Lessons , creating a chain reaction that brought about the change in the lives of many people around the world, as well as the creation of this very article, if we think about it carefully. Furthermore, Bambaataa and the Zulu Nation were so struck by the importance of teaching, that they made it a lifestyle, the desire to teach and transmit knowledge did not become just a scholastic opportunity, creating classes, but it became one's own lifestyle, one's behavior was the personal example that one carried in every moment of one's life, this meant and means BEING a Zulu , in every way. In the Green Book this is confirmed through the statement:
"We are all teachers in life, whether we realize it or not. Zulu members know they are teachers and strive to do just that. We share the knowledge we learn with other Zulus and all other people in life, so that we can create balance in other people's lives, allowing understanding to be achieved, and from that understanding peace can be achieved."
"This plague is, let's say, the lack, the absence of respect for the symbolic authority that the school and a teacher embody. This is a general problem of our time, our time, the time of the evaporation of the father, which means, not only that fathers are having difficulty doing their job, but that in the educational field - which introduces limits - it introduces the impossible, reminds us that not everything is possible, this concept is in crisis, and in great crisis in our time. The school suffers from this crisis, with a further addition, that every time a teacher rightly takes on the responsibility of a disciplinary measure or a negative evaluation, every time he takes on this responsibility he is looked at with suspicion. It is looked at with suspicion by parents for example, it is what we were saying last time, parents tend to always side with their children and against the teachers, breaking that generational pact that over the years has constituted what we call custom. The idea of the minister (...) is that we get out of it by returning to the past, that is, that If we get out of it by restoring, so to speak, order, discipline, obedience and respect for authority through measures that are clearly repressive, my particular and personal position instead holds that a return to the past doesn't work, in general it never works, and it wouldn't work in schools either. It's really a matter of rethinking the issue of law, the issue of authority, (...) as a teacher in various contexts, what I've noticed is that, every time, it's like saying "you're not recognized for the symbolic position you occupy as a professor" but you have to be, you have to rebuild from the ground up, from the bottom up, let's say, the value of your position. While before the teacher's position was authoritative as such, now we can no longer live off the proceeds, but we must each time rebuild from the bottom up the trust, the esteem, the value that our position entails. This is what I say when I maintain that while before it was tradition, the automatism of tradition that gave value to the teacher's word, like the word of a father in a family, well, now this automatism has jammed, it has become interrupted. We must, therefore, reconstruct the value of a father's or a teacher's words, starting from the ground up, from the bottom, starting from our ability to testify that the word still has weight, still has value. It is a question of moving from the teacher as authority to the teacher as witness, the teacher who is able to testify with his words that knowledge can be an erotic body (...) What is important is that the teacher, that is, the professor, the teacher, knows how to love those who learn; this is the definition of one of the fundamental attributes of a teacher. To love those who learn.The teacher's gratification would be exactly this: seeing one's students being formed through one's words is one of the greatest gratifications a teacher can have, seeing one's words shape life, and this implies that the teacher knows how to love those who learn."
Reading this part of the article it becomes obvious how in Hip Hop this aspect is transformed into the concept of respect , respect that must be earned through merit, or commitment to disciplines, in Hip Hop Culture through the Knowledge that is acquired and demonstrated, and in Zulu as the person one is in everyday life.
Furthermore, Zulu Nation has always known the importance of the word and how great its value is, which is why very specific terms are used: one greets with "Peace" because every true Zulu works for peace, tries to bring peace and comes in peace; this is why the term "Ahki/Akhi and Malika" "Brother and Sister", because this allows us all to see ourselves as brothers beyond the culture of race; this is the meaning of King/Queen , understood within Zulu as King of oneself and a beacon for others through the awareness of one's divine nature, divine understood as the sacredness of possessed consciousness , and how possessed consciousness can be an agent of positive change on this planet called Earth.
A Zulu's respect is earned day after day through actions , not beliefs. In fact, a Zulu demonstrates his respect through his Essence , the life he leads , the improvements he brings to himself and his community , which earns him respect for himself and his community.
Universal Zulu Nation stands for facts.
It goes without saying that UZN has in its principles and in its nature the love of others and its community and this is evident from these Infinity
Zulu was founded after realizing that it could better benefit the community; if gangs came together and used their strengths to better each other, they would in turn improve the community.
Infinity Number 5
While we are true believers in Hip Hop Culture, we as Zulu realize this world is real—with real problems and real solutions. So as a Zulu family, we strive to do our best, to elevate ourselves first, and then show others how to elevate themselves, mentally, spiritually, physically, economically, and socially.
"We talk about the death of the book, the death of reading. Reading is an experience that requires time, thought, and even effort. It is very different from the immediate access to information that social media allows. We should re-evaluate the role of the teacher, just as we should re-evaluate the fundamental importance of the book. (...) I agree (...) with the idea of leaving cell phones out of the classroom. This is a very important point. Our children must be detoxified, and access to books excludes simultaneous access to cell phones. Our children are finding it increasingly difficult to detach themselves from that object. I don't want to demonize technology and social media, because there are different uses for technology or social media, but there is no doubt that there is a widespread phenomenon of intoxication and that schools must introduce - let's use an expression that refers to psychoanalysis - a weaning of our children from their dependence on smartphones, the technological object that has become a sort of extension of their bodies. This weaning, in my opinion, must be the work of schools. But it's clear that when you take the breast away from a child, you have to give another impulse in return. We know that a child, for example, when he loses the breast, usually acquires the ability to speak, which is another oral object; it's not an oral object like the breast, but another oral object, a real object that provides much greater satisfaction than that of breastfeeding. So, let's move this example to the school level. Weaning means removing this perpetual connection with the smartphone, and replacing it with knowledge, therefore with access to books, but books that have become and must become an erotic body.
This is the same reason that led us to create, together with HipHopSeeds, our book , as we believe that beyond the information we have been providing since 2008 on our website, it is important to have a material object that makes the study of Hip Hop and its knowledge more intimate, more individual, and internal, allowing a dialogue of growth and knowledge between oneself and the concepts expressed in the book , something that rarely happens through the web, where the information is then dispersed in the sea of the web, continuing to spread the concept that the mind, and the conscience of man, are sacred, and therefore their development is sacred.
Infinity Lesson 5
Mind is the universal principle of the Infinite
"To understand the very soul of school, we must start from the word encounter. Ultimately, what our lives are made of, what we are made of, we are made of the encounters we have had, among these encounters that are fundamental in shaping our lives. School is the place of encounters, of the Loving encounter for example, which is the one that develops in the corridors, in the meetings between boys and girls. We must not forget that school is also the place where that extraordinary initiation to life, to the Loving discourse, usually occurs. But it is also the encounter with the teachers, this encounter leaves a mark. I recalled before how the word teaching has as its etymology that of leaving a mark, but what is this mark that the teacher leaves in the student made of? We could say that it is not only made of knowledge, it is made of something that ignites. The encounter with a teacher is what ignites life, or we could also say what sets life in motion, sets life in motion. So, this seems to me to be the fundamental function of school, which is not to distribute information, school is the place of a An encounter that can truly change your life and reveal your true inclinations, which you don't know before school. It's school that brings you into focus, that gives you the opportunity to rediscover those inclinations that were already within you, or to discover worlds you never imagined existed, worlds that perhaps reflect your deepest inclinations.
This last excerpt immediately highlights the fundamental role the scene plays within hip-hop culture, with its parties, jams, halls of fame, and so on—places of encounter, exchange, and growth, where, once upon a time, people actually grew up. Let's return to the concept of "street school." Hip-hop has often managed, over time, to reach places where school couldn't, sometimes even making school itself popular again. Happy New Year and Happy Self-discovery, everyone.
Peace
[Article by Ahki Smogone]
[Quote by Massimo Recalcati from the Radio 1 program "Mondo Nuovo"]
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