POST III: A teacher that inspired me

The teacher who inspired me is Agustín Zamora, also known as "Loco Zamora", my language teacher in high school. I met him in the third year of  secondary school in one of my two language classes (I chose the humanistic speciality in high school). He has a little overweigth, although his height compensated it; his hair was curly and somehow messy and he was tall and a little overweigth.

I think he achieved inspiring me because he could passionately talk about literature, one of my favourite hobbies. He could make sounds Shakespeare like the best thing of the life (i.e., not boring literature of centuries ago) and linking it with actual political issues or authors of other eras. He was specially good doing links amongst things that you don´t think that have it, a really cultured man who knew a lot of things out of his speciality.

With him, I learnt that the political preferences of an author can´t be an obstacle for reading him/her. For example, you can read Borges although he supported Pinochet in certain moment or you can read Neruda although he wrote "Oda a Stalin". Not all people can understand this. His class must be called "Literature and politics".

I think that in a peculiar way, with his accurates comments and jokes, he teached us that all is politic and that the critical thinking is one of the most important treasures that one can possess.