De Souza says it is increasingly difficult to support a family on a professor's salary, as most educators are finding themselves slipping out of the middle class and into the lower class. Research is almost an impossibility due to time and budget constraints and a lack of such basic necessities as libraries and computers. De Souza, who loves his teaching and his research, is very saddened by the situation. Einstein is my favorite hero. He hopes to save enough money to take back a computer, which would be impossible for him to purchase in his country, to aid him in his efforts to help educate a new generation of Brazilians.
Education is the most important thing.
You can't develop a country without developing the people first. Even if we start now, we would have to step back and wait for several generations to see any real change . . . De Souza hopes to continue teaching and to join groups of other people interested in bettering the living conditions of the country's people, particularly those in the more remote reaches of the Amazon. He envisions a system of waterways across the huge area that would allow for transportation and eventually open the area up to better education, medical care, and living conditions. Brazil is my country.