“It is a well-deserved recognition of the Melillense society towards that work, but also towards that commitment that you acquired at the time and that you have carried out throughout your professional career.”
The head of the Government Delegation, Sabrina Moh, has highlighted the role of the 21 teaching professionals and non-teaching staff who have been honored today on the occasion of their retirement, for their outstanding contribution, in the different educational centers of the city, to educational improvement and a better society.
The emotional event that the Provincial Directorate of the Ministry of Education, Vocational Training and Sports (MEFPyD) gave this afternoon on the occasion of his retirement in the Golden Hall of the Assembly Palace, was attended by a large representation of the MEFPyD of Melilla, headed by its Provincial Director, Juan Ángel Berbel, as well as the First Vice-President of the City, Miguel Marín, and the Councilor for Education of the City, Miguel Ángel Fernández.
The highest representative of the Government of Spain in our city has recognized that, for her, it has been an enormous pride to be able to recognize these professionals for a lifetime dedicated to teaching.
Moh has reiterated the importance of this “vocational” profession, “we not only teach, but we also help to educate in values and that is why I believe that all of us in this room must feel fully proud of all the teachers and non-teaching staff who are retiring today.”
“It is a profession that also allows us never to disconnect from the reality of society because every day children, young people, adolescents pass through our hands, who besides having us as their teachers, also have us as their reference, as confidants, as that complement of the family in school,” he said.
The Government Delegate has referred to teaching as an important and necessary profession for society, “because it is the tool that helps us change the world.” Coinciding with the day of the patron saint of the Faculty of Education and Sport Sciences, San José de Calasanz, has highlighted the emotiveness of this tribute after having been able to spend the morning “seeing the new generations that are being formed to join the world of teaching”.
In her speech, the Delegate wished the honorees all the happiness of the world. “The teacher never ceases to be one,” he said. “I know that you will continue to do the profession, but it is also time for this well-deserved rest after a lifetime of dedication, a lifetime of teaching, accompanying and guiding many generations that today are present in this society,” he concluded.
Deserved rest
For his part, the Provincial Director, in his speech, highlighted the intensity and vocation of the teachers who today have been honored for a whole professional life educating hundreds of people, “all of you have worked tirelessly during all these years, so many generations of speakers have to say the first of the words with which I began this speech: thank you”.
Berbel has highlighted the “immense debt of gratitude” that society has incurred with the honorees whom she has thanked for “having contributed to their training and education.” “You have provided society with the service that was required, but those of us who are still in the field of education and want to contribute to a fairer, freer, more caring society, have much to contribute and learn from those who are now honoring you,” he said.
“Discipline, training, instruction, knowledge, science and art are values that have been accompanying us, and you and yourselves, in this service of the Magisterium,” he said. “That same discipline and effort that for many years you have generously dedicated to your students,” he added.
“I trust that the newly acquired retirement, that well-deserved rest after so many years in the classrooms, will become a period of peace, of greater freedom to dedicate to people or aspects that daily work prevented us from doing with the desired intensity,” he said.
In the words of the head of the Provincial Directorate of the MEFPyD, “I do not believe that there is any nicer profession like the one we are practicing, despite all the setbacks or despite the social prestige that this fluctuates according to the time”.
The event, in which the Delegate, the Provincial Director, the 2nd Chief of the General Command of Melilla, the 1st Vice-President and the Councillor gave a plaque of recognition to teaching professionals and non-teaching staff on the occasion of their retirement, has been enlivened by the Professional Choir of the Professional Conservatory of Music of Melilla.