“If you love your place, you love kids and if you push them into the plain of love, all you have to do is load their minds with stories, memories and images. Otherwise the place will cease to exist and that if you tried it will be demolished without even listening to noise. “

This principle of life and a teacher as a teacher was shared with RES-EIA by George Smbokos the Anogian teacher who was affected, as they say in Crete, with his vision of educated children, social progress, preservation of the identity of Psiloritis and before 1960 in his place.

“This happens when you as your work and goal you set to start as much as you can in culture and transcend principles, values, wisdom and love for letters to young children and young people. That’s why I’m telling you reborn. “

As he told us, he couldn’t all feel that he felt for honorable and historical Anogeia to bury him in his emotion. For this reason he decided to write books that would help maintain memory to everyone but mainly to young people. “Memory is not just about making good friends. This leads you to tomorrow, your memory corrects mistakes and it acts as a wise Elder for the decisions you are about to make. My memory kids, it has it all. Music, stories, fairy tales, struggles, joy and lament, tears and sweat. Memory especially passing through the words looks like a heavy footprint on earth. “

The more than 30 books by the teacher, researcher, folklore, are about a huge archive that joins at most, yesterday and today with expectations for tomorrow, as explains in the EIA. In 1992 he decided to write his first book and despite his advanced age, he feels very alive and “I have no reason to stop … I continue because I love. Anogeia and children are my power, so I nest in my books from songs to legends, from images of mountaineering life, to the funny daily life, the idioms of our language, our customs and customs, all that defines the face and the body of the Anogia. And all this through deep research, personal testimonies, conversations with my fellow citizens and others, as well as from my personal archive. “

He insists that if the Anogeans are seriously concerned with their history and teach it all the matter to their children and grandchildren: “… this place has a lot to win. But Crete will come out to win, but all of Greece. And I’m not talking selfishly. I am talking about pain because I cry out to hear that without our tradition and the elements of our local culture, we will be lost in an undetected tank, impersonal and fast information that their average life is a few minutes, if a few hours. “

He has been a mayor twice and is proud of his terms as he proudly feels about his course as a teacher. “My suggestion to all teachers is to teach children critical thinking, to lead them to love reading so that they have encyclopedic and other knowledge. Be able to stand in whatever corner of the earth they are found. Let our children become ambassadors and advocates of history, memory, today who also have weapons with modern means of communication. Unfortunately, I find that young people let us fade, get lost and believe me, tear some nights sitting on the couch next to my office … It is also your debt to say that without the past we can go nowhere and what is now created and what is created and what is created and what is created.

When we asked him what it means to press correctly, he told us with emotion in his eyes … “You have to press roots if you don’t press roots, you won’t be able to get anywhere. Let me tell you something but don’t misunderstand me. Unfortunately I see a lot of things with the teacher’s perspective and experience. As a teacher I am not satisfied with the course the education has taken. We, with the few as supplies, after the liberation, finished the Academy in 1955, I remember that our first concern was for the kids to make people first. Then comes the knowledge and the letters … What I am telling you passionately all the teachers and we brought results. I see it today from my students who are really I can tell you, many became scientists some became great in their field but all maintain their dignity and humanity. The state I believe must definitely take into account some of the things that have omitted for years, so you are reduced and lost the past and together some values that have kept us up as societies. “

The teacher’s proposal, as he loves to be told, is “… simple. It is enough for the state to say in the region, in municipalities, small societies that it will help them in every way to collect and preserve local information and data. Write history and studies through which the problems will be studied. Whatever the place has, they are all subjects of study and to enter special booklets into the school program so that children learn to participate, have an opinion and functioning in the public. All in common, from yesterday to today. Children to see will wake up, feel responsible, take roles and not feel that they are in a corner with indifferent teachers, parents of fellow human beings. ” As he testifies, he did this since 1950, before he even went to study a teacher. He began to concern him with the issue of elements that would help him move forward, learn more about society and evolve as a human being. “I’m not stuck. On the contrary, I feel much freer with the knowledge of what follows me as a story, for what I have lived and live as a member of society and for what I think about tomorrow where our children will live. You know in the stories I write in my books and about tradition there is a personal revolution of mine. When I came back from Germany where I had gone to serve, I came into conflict with the program they had given to schools because they had abolished the Greek grammar. My revolution was that I personally put the grammar in notes, in language lessons, and I call the Inspector Mr. Vryxanakis … Nice man … And I say John, I will not abolish the grammar in my class and put it in the program. We will teach Grammar John, because I knew how much children are helping. And the inspector tells me … Do George that you understand. And I asked him to send me 23 grammar books. Believe me, grammar even helps in the character of a child as it grows and matures. “

In Anogia and Mylopotamos, teacher George Smokos is of particular appreciation, because, as was pointed out by many in RES-EIA, he takes care of the future of children and young people. “What we cannot do with our history and tradition, what we do not know about the characters are made, by the teacher of Smbokos from old to today,” we were told, expressing the belief that such teachers need today’s generation.

“On the blackboard I was writing and at the same time telling the children to hear and see how great it is to be the right person in your life. And this is also digested in so many books, which when one reads them, he realizes with great ease that societies in difficult and even harder went ahead and survived because of good people. You write this truth. I want to see it written, “were the latest conversations of George Smbokos before getting up from his chair to greet … Anogiani Mr. Smokos who after nine decades can still care and tear about his young people and his young people there.