No one can calculate how much diverse knowledge is grouped in the brain of a good teacher. Perhaps by the years of work, by the capacity they develop to delve into the minds of their disciples or by divine work, their memories are full of information. With the purpose of commemorating World Teachers' Day in October, we approach one of them: Adalberto Carmelo Valdés Pérez.
Adalberto Carmelo Valdés Pérez was born on July 16, 1952, in the city of Havana. At the age of nine his family settled in San Antonio de los Baños, where he completed Primary and Secondary Education. In 1968 he enrolled in the Geography specialty, at the Enrique José Varona Pedagogical Institute. Once he graduated, in 1973 he completed his social service at ESBEC Vanguardia de La Habana, in Isla de Pinos. In 1976 he began to work at the Preuniversity Institute IPUEC Niños Héroes de Chapultepec, of Güira de Melena. Two years later he passed to the Municipal Directorate of Education in that territory, assuming for more than a decade different teaching and union responsibilities.
Since 1986 Adalberto Carmelo Valdés Pérez has resided in Güira de Melena. In the second half of the nineties he was linked to Higher Education, at the Pedagogical Branch Eugenio María de Hostos. He obtained the Master's degrees in Didactics of Geography and Doctor in Pedagogical Sciences in 1997 and 2010, respectively. He was founder of the Higher Pedagogical Institute Ruben Martinez Villena and is currently a professor at the Center for Studies of Artemisa University. With a vast published work, research results and participation in national and international events, it has left its mark on several generations of educators. Men like this, demanding and generous, prestige the ariguanabense magisterio.
