Among the touching figures in China over the years, there will always be several supporting teachers. They sacrificed their glamorous life in the metropolis, gave up the convenient and fast urban technology, and willingly went to the mountain villages far away from the city. They spent their lives building a communication network for the children in the mountains so that they could go out of the mountains and embrace a colorful life. A bridge to the ideal.
Those who are willing to stay after devoting themselves to teaching must definitely have a hard-to-leave feeling for the area where they support teaching. Although volunteers or students from schools from major cities go to mountainous areas every year to support teaching, each arrival and final farewell is actually an invisible harm to the children in the mountains.
With the development of the times, China's economic and construction progress have attracted the attention of the world. But in some mountain villages where development is still relatively backward, there are still many people who have never seen the outside world in their lives. They need someone to sow the seeds of hope in them and lead them to a broader sky. But the road of supporting education is not easy, but even this kind of thing that most Chinese people cannot do, a German has done it, and he has been doing it for ten years! He is Luanke.
Passionate and dedicated to education
Luanke is a pure German who graduated from the Industrial Design Department of the Hamburg Academy of Fine Arts. He loves traveling and has traveled to many countries, seeing different customs and customs, making friends and gaining more knowledge along the way. He has always wanted to find what he really wanted to do and the meaning of life. By chance, he came to China and was immediately attracted by Chinese culture.
He enjoyed getting along with the Chinese people, especially when he was with the students. He felt as if there was a surge of blood in his body, which guided him to the idea of ??settling in China to engage in education.
He began to try to enter the campus as a volunteer and study with the students. Perhaps because the blood of German freedom flows in his body, he is not willing to teach comfortably and simply in ordinary schools. By chance, he learned that there are still many impoverished mountainous areas in China, where there is an extreme shortage of teachers. They even have no chance to understand the world outside the mountains, let alone have the urge to go out of the mountains.
So with passion, Lu Anke walked into the mountains and began his ordinary but great educational career. It was the decision Lu Anke made at that time that will help tens of thousands of children in the mountains who are eager to learn in the future. While Luanke realized his own ideals, he also helped many people achieve their dreams.
Combining Chinese and Western education methods to become a good teacher and helpful friend for children
Lu Anke came to Banlie Village, a poor mountain village in Donglan County, Guangxi. It is located in a remote area, a full 5-6 hours drive from the city, and is basically isolated from the rest of the world. On top of that, Luank was largely unable to communicate with the locals. Because people here basically have no communication with people from other places, Mandarin is not popular here, dialects are very strong, and most people speak Zhuang, which has caused great difficulties for Luanke.
The locals are also very surprised to see Lu Anke, a foreigner, and they also have some doubts and distrust, which further increases the difficulty of their communication. However, after a long period of running in and trying to communicate, Luanke gradually became able to understand the local dialect, and the locals began to learn to speak Mandarin. The language barrier could no longer isolate them.
Lu Anke came to the classroom and was a little overwhelmed by the mixed children of all ages in the seats. The children also looked at him with novel and defensive eyes. But Luanke quickly adjusted himself and began to tell the children about his previous experiences of playing around, which immediately aroused the children's curiosity. Since Luanke still advocates the Western education method of equality and freedom, he mostly communicates with the children in the tone of a friend in class. Over time, the classmates all dropped their guard against him and began to mingle with Luke.
In life, Lukean also went deep into the students' families, communicated with the students' parents, and even did some farm work with them.
When the parents saw that this "foreigner" seemed to be quite warm-hearted and good to the children, they began to treat Luk'an as a family member. Occasionally, when I cook something delicious at home, I will specially call Luke An or send it directly to Luke An's dormitory to share it with me.
In such a harmonious atmosphere, Lukean felt unprecedented warmth and satisfaction. But the real difficulties are also clearly before our eyes: the lack of teaching tools and teaching books; the concept of "the uselessness of reading" is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people; the serious shortage of teachers?
Various difficulties lie between education and children between them. Since there were no teaching tools or textbooks, Luanke drove several hours to the city to buy them and made some simple teaching aids by himself. People believe that reading is useless. He uses his own experience to tell children how wonderful the world outside the mountains is, so that children can yearn for it, take the initiative to learn, and look forward to going out of the mountains and into the world in the future. Luanke used his actions to nourish this dry land and bring motivation and hope to the children.
He believes that true knowledge can only come from practice. He often leads a group of students through the farmland and does various practical activities. He never emphasizes discipline issues because he feels that this is a great constraint on the students. Discipline must be maintained by students on their own initiative, rather than by teachers forcing them not to speak through forceful means.
He also wrote a script himself and filmed a TV series with his children. The purpose is to hope that children can solve the problems encountered in life cheerfully and optimistically, and love themselves and the people around them. , love this world. He published his experiences in the education process on his blog, hoping to play a role in China's education.
Although Lu Anke encountered various difficulties on the road of teaching, he still persisted as always out of his original intention. Rather than saying that Lu Anke brought knowledge to the poor children here, it is better to say that it was the people here who made Lu Anke understand the true meaning of life better and realize his more important life value.
It’s not about moving China, it’s China that moves me
In 2006, Lu Anke was selected as the person who moved China. He was shocked when he found out he was selected. He didn't feel that what he was doing was a great thing. He felt that he had just found something he really liked and devoted himself to it. Lukian wrote a letter to the selection committee and said: "I am not trying to move China, it is China that is moving me." ?and declined the nomination.
He said that the customs and customs he experienced in China and the pure, curious and eager eyes of children he encountered during the education process made him truly realize the meaning of life. Although he was teaching the children, he also learned many of the most precious things in the world from the children, the warmth of humanity that cannot be learned in any book. Facing the disadvantaged groups in life, Lu Anke only gives them attention and love. Although he cannot take into account every individual in detail, he still retains a kindness to each individual. This is what we need to learn from.
Luanke has always refused to be interviewed because he doesn't like others to describe him from the perspective of a celebrity, let alone think of himself as a celebrity. The only time he was interviewed was because host Chai Jing promised not to make him a celebrity. He devoted his whole life to this small mountain village, and harvested countless equally sincere emotions with his true feelings. He had no children in his life, but every one of his students regarded him as the most respected father. He used his life to prove that the choice of leaving home was worth it!
Human life only lasts for a few decades. How to live a meaningful life is a lifelong study topic. Luanke's life is ordinary and great, worthy of admiration and learning from each of us. He not only made his career valuable to others, but also made the most of his own life value. When applying these to the fields that we are good at or love, we must also have a professional spirit. At the very least, we must ensure that we are fully committed to it when working.
Lu Anke has been studying and practicing the educational concepts he believes in throughout his life, and has achieved certain results, providing valuable experience for the education industry.
And we must also learn to develop our "little love" into a "big love" and do more things that are beneficial to society. There is lingering fragrance in the hands of roses given to others? Every goodwill will merge into a stream, passing through the wild forest and the hustle and bustle, nourishing the land that needs it and nourishing the soul that is thirsty for watering. We pass on a love and responsibility to others, and one day we will taste the fruits of happiness.