✏ Teachers: Changing lives

An "impossible profession". For Sigmund Freud, education, like government and psychoanalysis, represented an undertaking "in which one can be sure

Terms and conditions                                    View this email in your browser The UNESCO Courier | October - December 2019 WIDE ANGLE Teachers: Changing lives A second-chance school in Montreal The school under a bridge in New Delhi Mohamed Sidibay: The role of teachers is to restore our confidence Congo: A class of seventy-six Teach Me If You Can: From classrooms to the big screen Teaching behind bars in Valparaiso A teacher brings hope to a remote Chinese village ZOOM Archive treasure: The unpublished album of David Seymour Text: Giovanna Hendel Photos: David Seymour/Magnum Photos IDEAS Architectural lessons for the future, via the past Amin Al-Habaibeh OUR GUEST Nelly Minyersky: The green queen Interview by Lucía Iglesias Kuntz Trending An Inca suspension bridge is restored in Peru Jordi Busqué From the holds of the Clotilda to Africatown Sylviane A. Diouf Download the latest issue Teachers: Changing lives An "impossible profession". For Sigmund Freud, education, like government and psychoanalysis, represented an undertaking "in which one can be sure beforehand of achieving unsatisfying results. It is no easy task to simultaneously transmit knowledge, maintain classroom discipline, stimulate curiosity, impart the rules of living together and train future citizens. The challenge is all the more difficult to take on in contexts that are marked – too often – by a lack of resources and overcrowded classrooms. It is these teachers, who work in the toughest of circumstances, who are featured in this issue of the Courier. Follow the Hashtag #UNESCOCourier Since its creation in 1948, the UNESCO Courier has been spreading an ideal throughout the world: humanity united in its diversity around universal values and fundamental rights, strong in the wealth of its cultures, knowledge and accomplishments     The UNESCO Courier 7 place de Fontenoy, 75007 Paris, France courier@unesco.org Want to change how you receive these emails? You can subscribe, update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list.