The teacher and the path of the way taught

Abstract

The priority and great passion of María Victoria Morena, professor of Castilian Language and Literature, was the world of education. The commitment to and enthusiasm for the creation, during the Franco dictatorship, a different kind of school reveal other angles to this versatile cultural activity who was Galician in terms of her sensibility and lifestyle. She was engaged in teacher training, worked in the book trade and was a publisher, translator essayist, writer, poet, sociolinguist and public speaker. However, she was above all else a Teacher who dedicated the majority of her time to helping to train writers rather than seek her own glory in shop windows. Her most powerful resources inside and outside of the classroom where wisdom, sensibility, ethics, enthusiasm and commitment to the Galician language and nation. This article examines how she drew upon the impact that her own teachers had had on her in order to contribute to the formation of future artists from amongst her own pupils.