Help

I thought it interesting the lines of this chapter in which politicians are compared to the rest of the people. I couldn’t agree more with the fact they have worse reputation than us, just because their acts are more public than ours. If we look at it closely, politicians are not very different from us. Last Sunday, my uncle told me about this chain help the TV show CQC carried out some time ago in which a rural school located in an inaccessible place in the South of Argentina was given a pick-up truck for the teachers to be able to carry materials, food, etc. Some time later, CQC received a phone call from a teacher of that school denounced the very same teacher who had called CQC the first time asking for help. Now, he was the “owner” of that vehicle and was using it for his own benefit, not for the school’s benefit. This is a sad example of what many people do and it is also a way to show that we don’t need to be politicians to be dishonest, amoral or corrupt. Apart from this, I truly believe there are many politicians who are not like this either. Like this story I think we have heard many. People like this teacher are the ones who make of the world a corrupted place and discourage us as human beings, but it is necessary to show the counterpart of this also, especially to our students, and to discuss this issue carefully and tactfully with them. There are much more people working for this world to be better so we shouldn’t let the bad actions of some make us give up on the good things we can do for our peers.