By Mercedes
Rodriguez Garcia
Photos:
Manuel Feria
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| Young students in Che Square. |
"You can not love what you do not know," Aristides
Rondon Velazquez assures rightly and moved. He has 45 years of experience as a
pedagogue and is a senior specialist in the Center for the Development of Youth
(CDJ) Francisco Gómez Toro, affiliated to the Young Communist League in the province of Villa Clara.
"You can not love what you do not know," Aristides
Rondon Velazquez assures rightly and moved. He has 45 years of experience as a
pedagogue and is a senior specialist in the Center for the Development of Youth
(CDJ) Francisco Gómez Toro, affiliated to the Young Communist League in the province of Villa Clara.
Rondon Velazquez knows well that young people begin to
like history when "you narrate and describes it to them first, and, then, you
explain".
Study, knowledge and preparation
The only one of its kind in Cuba, the CDJ's basic objectives are to promote
actions encouraging the study of the Cuban history, the thought of significant
personalities in the process of formation of the nationality and the
foundations of the Cuban social project.
Its lines of action include, moreover, to participate actively
in the political and ideological training of the young people, as well as carrying
out cultural and research that help to broaden knowledge on the work of José
Martí, Fidel Castro and Ernesto Guevara in that population segment.
"Young people need to expand their culture to
understand any political or ideological.event. If you know how to educate and
instruct properly, with examples, they will be good men and women in the
future,’ Rondon Velázquez says.
-Who supports
you?
"We count on the collaboration of all the centers
of higher education, mainly the University of Pedagogical Sciences and of the
Central University (UCLV). We also have an Advisory Council composed of
valuable professionals specialized in different areas. "Thanks to them we
can provide courses, lectures, workshops, graduate programs, in accordance with
the interests and needs of the universe we serve."
-Can you mention
some of these actions?
"The center was founded more than a year ago, and
in that time they are worthy of mention a graduate program in accounting and
finance, a course of writing and spelling, and other one to prepare students
for the entrance examinations.”
-Do you have
any course on Jose Marti?
"We finished one and now it is open the call for
another titled ' José Martí, American and universal', by Professor Clara
Niebla, from the UCLV.
Memory and example
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| Guerrilla Detachment with a member of the Granma expedition |
-Meetings to
remember?
"One of the most exciting ones was held by
students of 11th grade with Rev. Lucius Walker’s daughter. They belong to
Osvaldo Herrera High School in Santa Clara, and they have created a Guerrilla
Detachment. So, each one adopts the name and personality of a member of Che’s
guerrillas in Bolivia, no matter the sex or the physical resemblance. The group
was founded on June 14, 2011, when they were in 10th grade.
-Are you satisfied?
"Never, and less at present when the nation has
put its hopes in the youth relay, which we must prepare responsibly.”
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