Jesus Gonzalo Guzman Gonzalez He has dedicated 35 years of his life to teaching the high school math. For 30 years she shared her passion for numbers with the student body of the IES La Orotava-Manuel González Pérez, where this Thursday they gave him an emotional and well-deserved farewell. Hundreds of students, teachers and non-teaching staff gave unanimous applause to this lover of math that today, on his first day as a retiree, he only has words of thanks for his students and colleagues the last 35 courses.
The video of his leaving the center, moved by the surprise that his classmates and students gave him, has been shared through the social network facebook and gives an idea of the affection and respect reaped by this teacher after more than three decades of uninterrupted teaching. This Friday, March 25, 2022, still with the nostalgia and doubts of the one who has just left his usual job, Gonzalo Guzman He assured EL DÍA that he did not expect that farewell and that his intention was to leave “without making much noise.” It was not possible, he had to leave the center escorted by hundreds of people, in an “exciting and emotional” moment that his protagonist confesses that can never “forget”.
He acknowledges that he leaves him grateful and proud: “I always felt loved, I leave with the feeling that I have received more than I have given. I never stopped liking my job, nor mathematics, and I have enjoyed until the last day with my students. I have been happy watching my students learn new concepts and I think I have been able to transmit that happiness in my explanations. I have been a lucky person because I have always enjoyed teaching”.
“I have been happy watching my students learn new concepts and I think I have been able to transmit that happiness in my explanations”
“I have been at ease personally and professionally in what has been the institute of my life, the IES La Orotavawhere I arrived in 1992, after passing through other institutes such as the IES Alonso Perez Diazfrom Holy Cross of La Palmawhere I did the filming in my first two courses in the 80s”, recalls this graduate in mathematics.
Gonzalo Guzman He grew up in a humble family in the town of Icod of the Wineson Key Munoz Streetand his childhood was not easy at all. When he was barely ten years old, he lost his father. and he had to “mature suddenly” to get ahead with the help of his mother and his sister María Candelaria, also a retired teacher. She is still moved when she remembers the efforts that her mother made and the key role that she played in her life. Anthony Acevedoa mathematician and basketball coach at the CB Hercules, who passed on his love for mathematics. “To get out of the situation we were in, and to be able to improve in life, both my sister and I focused on studies and it hasn’t gone badly for us,” she concludes.
