Educating for life: A teacher from the pedagogy of love

Abstract

Educating goes beyond a curricular planning, a daily teaching, or a need to know and learn. Education in all its processes needs of the pedagogy of love, which is to give a humanistic sense to the act of educating. Every educational activity, every teaching action, is and must be based upon the pedagogy of love.

Education from the pedagogy of love is to see nature from an ecological ethics, is to interrelate nature and literature. It is to perceive literature as another expression of life in order to build a critical thought and to perceive a more harmonious world, a world where poetry has to be human, as Vicente Aleixandre says, because if it is not human, it is not poetry. Moreover, as the philosopher Tagore states: "Poetry is the echo of the melody of the universe in the human hearts."

Love and education has to do with becoming creative and transformative human beings; to turn into the kind of human we long to be, as we teach and learn. The only law of every educator is to love their students, in which the Pedagogical Mediation is meaningful, integral, playful, pleasant and beautiful learning.