EDUCATION IS LIGHTING A FLAME NOT FILLING A CONTAINER
INTRODUCTION My name is Alexander Carvajal Urrego. I´m 40 years old. I´m from Barranquilla city and I´m a student of Bachelor Degree in English as a foreign language, and this a resume of my pedagogical experience. In the first class session, I tried to communicate the program of the class entirely in Enlish language, but it was not possible, the students had a very low level, they expressed feeling scared and pressured, every time that I made a question. Obviously, they didn´t have neither the developed skills nor the tools to understand a class entirely in English. So I said, "don´t feel pressured, this is a chance, you have all the freedom in the whole world to commit mistakes, don´t try to be perfect, just try to listen, and just dare to speak, don´t be silent, if you don´t commit mistakes it´s because you don´t even try". During this process, I could notice many worrisome aspects that affected the learning of the students, some
