{"id":45208,"date":"2016-07-21T13:50:24","date_gmt":"2016-07-21T11:50:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sanejoker.info\/en\/?p=45208"},"modified":"2025-10-05T23:07:48","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T21:07:48","slug":"oh-captain-captain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sanejoker.info\/en\/2016\/07\/oh-captain-captain.html","title":{"rendered":"\u201cOh captain, my captain\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It\u2019s always easier to blame others for what is happening in our lives. To pronounce ourselves helpless and alone, while facing a system which tends to transform us into another brick in the wall. But while we nag how society is, we fail to remember that we are society.
\nNo-one objects that a fish rots from the head down, whose head is the millionaires\u2019 who experiment mercilessly with people, as if they are insects.
\nIt\u2019s the politicians who reneged those who elected them, to serve lobbies.<\/p>\n

It\u2019 s the intellectuals who isolate themselves in their ivory towers, blind, deaf and mute, like the three monkeys.<\/p>\n

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But a man\u2019s power to make up their mind to \u201cbecome the change they want to see in the world\u201d is unharnessed. Most of the times it looks like they sacrifice themselves pointlessly, serving a chimerical purpose.<\/p>\n

But if we take a look at human history from a distance, we\u2019ll see that no sacrifice or attempt goes in vain and that our world changes – slowly and torturously\u00a0\u2013 thanks to this one man, any man, who dares to stand on their desk and utter \u201cOh captain, my captain\u201d.<\/p>\n

I am not referring to this wonderful movie of our youth, the \u201cDead Poets Society\u201d, but to a real teacher, not as funny as Robin Williams for sure, but equally gifted and totally influential on the first-class high school students of a small town.<\/p>\n

His name was Papageorgakis. Of the many teachers I met in my life, he is the only one whose name I can still recall.<\/p>\n

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He was late to be appointed. It was the very first days of October, but the sun this day stupefied us, and we chorused the old known school chant \u201cIf we don\u2019t go on an excursion, get ready for school incursion\u201d.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t think that the teachers were intimidated but they took us to the nearby seaside settlement, three kilometers away from our school. There, we saw Papageorgakis for the first time.<\/p>\n

A classmate had the blues that day and she was sitting all alone on the beach, casting stones into the sea. An unknown man approached her and began asking her why she didn\u2019t join the other children, if she liked loneliness and the sea and weird things like that.<\/p>\n

Kelly thought she had met a freak. She sent him to hell and resorted to the protection of her classmates.<\/p>\n

On the way back Kelly spotted the \u201cfreak\u201d among the rest of the teachers. The truth spread fast: He was the new philologist of the school; and he was weird \u2013 as teachers go.<\/p>\n

He bore a great resemblance to Vasilis Kazoulis. His hair was sparse and long, his skull shone under the sun. He wore glasses a la John Lennon, white linen shirt and harem pants respectively. On his shoulder hung a worn-out leather bag. His face was so peaceful and meek that it would have the schoolchildren in stitches, because they would assume that he must just have smoked a joint or two at the beach. We, the newcomers, were looking at him with awe and curiosity, since in our small society we had never seen a man like him.<\/p>\n

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In my class, unfortunately, Papageorgakis was appointed to teach only history. The very first time he entered the class he greeted us cordially, as a friend I might say \u2013 that\u2019s how we felt – and he introduced himself by saying a few things about himself.<\/p>\n

After the first shock \u2013 since the other teachers used to write their name on the board, believing that we would respect them more \u2013 Papageorgakis told us to close our books. We did so obediently \u2013 and shaking. The cover of the book showed a statue of the classical period, perhaps Hermes of Praxiteles.<\/p>\n

\u201cTake a look at this statue\u201d began Papageorgakis and we all fixed our gaze on him. \u201cWhy do you think Praxiteles carved it?\u201d<\/p>\n

We thought it was a rhetorical question and he would start reeling off information and dates. But he stood silent.<\/p>\n

After a few seconds of unbearable silence, he repeated the question.<\/p>\n

The best student in the class (from primary school it was obvious she would succeed) raised her hand and started quoting what the book said about Praxiteles. She had already memorized the first pages.<\/p>\n

Papageorgakis asked for her name. Then he thanked her.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t want you to tell me what the book says\u201d, he told us in such a peaceful manner that we got scared. \u201cI want you to imagine\u2026Imagine that you are Praxiteles and you take on the task of carving a statue of Hermes. Why would you make it like this? So perfect?\u201d<\/p>\n

My seatmate, whose voice was heard during breaks exclusively, raised his hand to answer:<\/p>\n

\u201cTo pay tribute to the gods\u201d he said and then he lowered his head, believing that the teacher would make fun of him and his classmates would laugh at him.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s right\u201d Papageorgakis said.<\/p>\n

My seatmate blushed, but a grin cracked his face, feeling proud of himself. I felt so jealous at that moment that I wanted to talk too.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut why did he opt to make it so\u2026human?\u201d asked Papageorgakis.<\/p>\n

More children raised their hand this time. The good students, as always, among them but also some others who were unaware of their own hands and voice.<\/p>\n

\u201cBecause gods were also human\u201d said a shy girl, accenting the word \u201chuman\u201d incorrectly in her hurry. Papageorgakis let it go. She understood it by herself and rephrased: \u201cThey were humans, they were just like humans, they had their defects too.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat\u2019s your name?\u201d Papageorgakis asked her.<\/p>\n

She told him in a low voice.<\/p>\n

\u201cHelen\u201d, said Papageorgakis, \u201cthis is the most astute answer I\u2019ve ever heard. Well done.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tears welled up in Helen\u2019s eyes. Nobody had ever congratulated her in school.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut why did the ancient Greeks gods have defects?\u201d asked Papageorgakis.<\/p>\n

No-one raised their hand this time. This was more than what 12-years-old students could handle. Wrong! Children are much smarter than we allow them to be.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery time you ask why\u201d, said Papageorgakis \u201cand every time this \u2018why\u2019 is answered, a new \u2018why\u2019 results from your answer. No matter how much you learn, no matter how many questions are answered, there will always be a \u2018why\u2019 that neither you nor anybody else can answer positively\u2026because that\u2019s the nature of human intellect.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Since the first meeting with the \u201cfreak\u201d-teacher we all became a tad wiser, somewhat more confident about ourselves. We felt like we had entered a new world, totally different from the one of primary school, as if, all of a sudden, we had ceased being children, since someone valued our opinion.<\/p>\n

The history lessons kept on being interesting, weird, different. When it was about time to begin, we all couldn\u2019t wait to start. Did I say \u201call\u201d?<\/p>\n

No. The good students, the excellent ones, the flag bearers, couldn\u2019t stand Papageorgakis. Why? Because of him, parrot-learning was of no use.<\/p>\n

Plus, there have always been some children that for them school was, one way or another, sheer drudgery.<\/p>\n

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The children abovementioned were excited when the time came for the first obligatory test. We knew it beforehand, Papageorgakis had informed us many days before, without pointing out anything too important to focus our attention on.<\/p>\n

The day that the test would take place, we had already carefully written our cheatsheets; on our hands, desks, slips of paper, concealed in the most unimaginable hideouts.<\/p>\n

Papageorgakis gave us the tests and he told us to take the books from our bags. We would give a test with open books! We could refer to them when we wanted to.<\/p>\n

We did so as if we were guilty and we pored over the questions of the test. It became clear why books wouldn\u2019t be of any help. We should use our judgment to all questions, just like this famous \u201cwhy\u201d.<\/p>\n

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When the time had come for the marks of the first trimester, the excellent students were in tears. Their parents grumbled to Papageorgakis and to the headmaster of the school. Their children hadn\u2019t been awarded 20, the highest of the scale, but with 18 or 19, just like many of the \u201caverage\u201d students.<\/p>\n

No-one had failed, in other words no-one had got marks below 10, and this \u2013 according to the mothers of the excellent students- was unfair, because their children tried harder. Papageorgakis, with the ever-present Buddha\u2019s smile on his face, attempted to comfort the weeping students stressing to them that they had done pretty well. But their mothers didn\u2019t see eye to eye with him.<\/p>\n

Rumours had it that the director had a go at Papageorgakis but he remained undaunted to alternative teaching.<\/p>\n

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Sometime later in the spring, he told us that while he was reading a story, a mouse edged towards him. The mouse told him that he got sick and tired of all these lukewarm stories. It would be better, if only \u201csteeses\u201d existed, that is stories made of cheese. He asked us \u2013 Papageorgakis, not the mouse \u2013 if we could imagine how a \u201dsteese\u201d might be.<\/p>\n

I set out writing the same night. It was a war-story between the soft and hard cheeses.<\/p>\n

Influenced by the \u201cFrog-mouse war\u201d that our history teacher had read to us as extracurricular reading, I wrote a comic story\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 with cheeses that used thermo weapons to melt their enemies, mice that were let loose to devour their enemies and Gruy\u00e8re\u00a0cheeses that when decapitated were transformed into ordinary cheeses.<\/p>\n

Papageorgakis was thrilled with my story and read it aloud to the class. For a child that was not an excellent student, not by a long chalk, and his self-confidence was inversely proportional to his weight \u2013 in other words a fat and average student \u2013 this \u201cpublic\u201d reading was something like a Nobel Prize.<\/p>\n

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The school year came to an end without any sensational event. No student committed suicide, Papageorgakis wasn\u2019t laid off and we spent most of our time concealing our blackheads, playing pacman and masturbating while watching black and white commercials.<\/p>\n

Papageorgakis never taught in our school again and nobody bothered to track him down.<\/p>\n

Adolescence is a very difficult age, nothing but yelling and fantasies.<\/p>\n

Now that my child began going to school, I hope he will have the chance to meet a teacher like Papageorgakis. Or somebody like the inspiring teacher in a village in Crete (I\u2019m sorry but I can\u2019t recall your name). Or someone like my friend Z. from Naxos who pinches \u2013 mentally speaking \u2013 the children to wake up and see what\u2019s going on in the world in which they live.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s something that money can\u2019t buy, it\u2019s something that only the educator can do with love. To teach children that \u201cimagination is more important than knowledge\u201d and that all of the students \u2013 even the \u201caverage\u201d or the \u201cbad\u201d ones \u2013 are worthy. They are important, as long as they are not afraid of asking: \u201cWhy?\u201d<\/p>\n

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