Citas

[…]”We think of the revolution as something truly creative, as something which does not stop creating for a single minute, with a ceaseless surge of ideas, with a ceaseless improvement of ideas, every day, every month, every year, we do more and we do it better.”
References to the original: Speech given at the graduation of 300 Revolutionary Instructors at Schools for Household Servants,Chaplin Theatre, March 16, 1962
“What is the most important thing for a Revolution that hopes to radically change the life of a country and build a new society? It is the teacher, comrades; the teacher is the most important thing in a Revolution.”
References to the original: Speech delivered at the Sierra Maestra Teachers’ Vocational Center in Minas del Frío, June 17, 1962

“In Cuba, the social and human nightmare denounced in 1953, which gave rise to our struggle, had been left behind just a few years after the triumph of the Revolution in 1959. Soon, there were no longer (…) undernourished, barefoot, parasite-ridden children, without schools or teachers, even if their schooling took place beneath the shade of a tree. They no longer died in massive numbers from hunger, disease, from lack of resources or medical care. No longer were the rural areas filled with unemployed men and women.”

References to the original: Speech given by Fidel Castro at the ceremony commemorating the 50th anniversary of the attack on the Moncada and Carlos Manuel de Céspedes Garrisons, held in Santiago de Cuba.

“We must ensure that the teachers working in our classrooms today stay working there, we must add to their reserves, jealously guard the young human resources we have trained over the last few years, paying special attention to their professionalism and up-grading. We must continue to analyze the inescapable changes that our technical professional and senior high school education must undergo; we must improve the way higher education is made accessible to all and we must make sure that all of the country’s universities move forward from this idea towards the academic and revolutionary excellence that the country demands from its university students and professors”.

References to the original: Speech given at the closing session of the Young Communists League 8th Congress,held in the Havana Convention Center, 5 December 2004

"What is the ethic of a revolutionary? All revolutionary thinking begins with a bit of ethics; some values acquired from parents, others from teachers, but no one is born with these ideas. No one is born with the gift of speech, either; someone has to teach us to speak. The influence of the family is huge".

References to the original: Speech delivered by Dr. Fidel Castro Ruz, President of the Republic of Cuba, at the Commemoration of the 60th Anniversary of his admission to University of Havana, in the Aula Magna of the University of Havana, November 17, 2005

"Since the beginning of the Revolution, Cuba has been engaged in training doctors, teachers and other professionals; with a population of less than 12 million inhabitants, today we have more Comprehensive General Medicine specialists than all the doctors in sub-Saharan Africa where the population exceeds 700 million people."

References to the original: THE ENGLISH SUBMARINE; May 21, 2007.

"This will be an acid test for all Latin American governments and peoples.  So it will for all of our doctors and educators who carry out their lofty and peaceful work in that country, no matter what may happen there.  Should they face any risky situation, they will not abandon their patients or students".

References to the original: REFLECTIONS AN ACID TEST, April 30, 2008