There is such a German. Since 1997, he has gone to remote mountain villages in Guangxi, China, where there is no telephone or highway, to accompany the left-behind children in the local villages. In the eyes of the local villagers, this German who does not smoke, drink, eat meat, do not have a salary, or fall in love, and spends his entire day with village children, is a "weird".
His teaching behavior attracted CCTV reporter Chai Jing, who went to the mountains for interviews twice. After the first interview, Chai Jing felt: Facing this person, let herself fall apart...Invisibly this middle-aged German man has become Chai Jing's spiritual mentor.
After his deeds were widely reported by the media, some people said he was a saint, a contemporary "Bethune", and some said he was an alien and a loser...
But he did not do what he did Move, I’m just following my heart and doing what I want to do.
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This German once had a Chinese name: Luanke
Luanke, a native of Hamburg, Germany, graduated from the Industrial Design Department of the Hamburg Academy of Fine Arts. A three-month trip to China in the summer of 1990 changed his life. Since 1997, he has been in the mountains of Guangxi, China for 18 years, traveling to many mountain villages and living a simple life. He has been teaching in China for ten years and is a candidate for 2006 that moved China.
was once known by everyone because of the CCTV seeing , but what happened later?
2010.11. Back to home in Germany.
2010.11.-12. Due to the inability to extend the volunteer status, I returned to my hometown in Germany to accompany my parents for more than two months.
2011.1-8. Before the Spring Festival, I returned to Banlie’s students, but did nothing except sort out "What Brings Power" and compose songs.
2011.9.- Become an employee of the non-governmental charity organization "Changsha Mengchuang Charity Cultural Development Center", responsible for studying the relationship between left-behind children and rural volunteers.
2011.11.- 2012.6. Created "Heart Mirror" with the fifth grade students of Banlie Primary School.
2012.7.- 8. Help Changsha Mengchuang Public Welfare Cultural Development Center to carry out the training of support teachers in rural areas of Xiangxi.
2012.9. Living conditions are unstable, and finally had to leave to wait for Vietnam.
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Luanke also has a lot of practical experience in the front line of education in China, even longer, which lasted more than ten years, and went further: deep into Guangxi, China, no telephone, no highway In the remote mountain villages of China, where they don’t receive wages, they don’t have to pay for their education, and it lasts more than ten years.
By moistening things quietly, he practiced the idea that love and companionship are more important than so-called education. Letting children experience the beauty of life itself is more important than "instilling knowledge".
What he faced in Banlie Village were mostly left-behind children who were out of school. Not to mention a decent formal school education, even the minimum family and loving accompany, there is a lack of it. And Luanke, a blond and blue-eyed uncle from thousands of miles away, serves as the "family" of these children.
However, in the winter of 2013, Luanke had to leave the small mountain village where he had been teaching for ten years due to unavoidable reasons. Before leaving, Luanke, who had always avoided media interviews, accepted the CCTV "Seeing" program Chai Jing as an exception. The interview with him, that episode of the show, has made him countless fans at the same time, many netizens have also been forced to leave because of him.Tears of regret were shed.
After finishing the "Farewell Luanke" program, Chai Jing wrote in her blog post:
"Education is between people and between themselves and themselves , It never stops, just like a tree shaking another tree, a cloud touches another cloud, one soul awakens another soul, as long as this transmission and awakening does not stop, we will not say goodbye to Luanke.
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Practicing the utopian dream of education in a small mountain village.
There are always some people in the world whose personal characteristics are difficult to use "common sense" to analogize, Luanke belongs to this kind of person.
This German was born in Hamburg, Germany in 1968. After graduating from high school, he wandered around, worked as a sailing factory worker, sailing coach, and soldier, and later entered the Hamburg Academy of Fine Arts to study industrial design.
He first arrived in China as a tourist, and then soon found that he liked to be with Chinese students, and in his heart, he had a utopian dream about education.
As a volunteer in China’s education sector, after several setbacks and encounters, he finally found a place to practice his educational dream, which is Banlie Village, Pola Township, Donglan County, Guangxi. A remote mountain village with no telephone, no road, and villagers who only speak Zhuang.
It takes more than four or five hours of bumpy mountain roads to arrive here from any slightly larger city nearby. This is a place where the locals are eager to flee, but the foreigner seems to have discovered his own paradise and stayed for more than ten years.
The blond Luanke came to Banlie Village in 2001 to support education. At first he also aroused the vigilance of the local authorities. Later, because he was really "very honest", he was able to settle down in this small mountain village for a long time.
He is a weird person in the eyes of many people.No home, no house, no children, and often wear shoes barefoot, because there is no pair of size 45 socks nearby. He doesn't smoke, drink, eat meat, and don't fall in love for a long time, because in his heart, there is "greater pleasure than these." He does not take a penny of salary, is not on the school staff list, he does not even use textbooks in class...
However, he is enthusiastically supported by the children, in the eyes of the children, he is the best friend, teacher, A playmate who can climb trees together and roll in the mud. Luanke often plays with the left-behind children, taking them to film science fiction dramas, playing mud, catching mud loach, designing river dams, and even spending a few hours to plow the ground. Some students said that he was "like a warm man."
Luanke loves this land from the heart. The mountains and plains are full of his steps. Every grass and tree is his pleasure. When Chai Jing interviewed Luanke who was about to leave here, he found that he often said nothing. Looking at the mountain in a daze, it seems that the whole person is also immersed in the last time with this land.
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Give up and change children, and change will happen naturally
When it comes to Luanke’s unique teaching method, the media often mentions the scene where he led the students to shoot the science fiction TV series "Mirror of the Heart"—the children became a crew. Make props by yourself and perform different roles respectively.
A boy named Ya Han Yun plays the protagonist Rong Cheng. His superpower does not come from force, but comes from his ability to withstand the humiliation, beating and bullying of every faction against him. This role he plays, Will finally understand: "The strength of man is not what he has conquered, but what he has endured." A complaint...
After interviewing Luanke, Chai Jing wrote in her blog: "Facing Luanke, I fell apart." What she used to be common sense in her mind suddenly wavered.
The way Luanke treats children is more like companionship than teaching. In this regard, Luanke said: "The most important thing the children of need to see is,'There is a person who is acting as his true self. When he was with me, he forgot all his thoughts and only kept his true self. '”
Luanke uses as little language as possible to explain to his children. He took the children to play games and play to their heart's content. In this regard, Luanke said, "Language is often fake, and what we have experienced together is true."
He believes that "experience" is more important than "knowledge". "Whether it is an adult or a child, the real education is to'educate yourself','knowing' and'experiencing' are two different things."
He opposes standardized education, a uniform campus, and an educational philosophy of "death to the heart". He used to compete with the problems in the real world. But now, he doesn't want to change, "If you do something with the purpose of changing, then you don't have to do it. I don't want to change, so there is no pressure."
Chai Jing asked him: "I don't want to change, then education What is the purpose?"
He replied: "Change is not the purpose, nor is it my responsibility, but change will happen naturally."
He even emphasized that as a teacher, you should not imagine or expect students." As a teacher, with a kind of imagination, imagine what students should do, and always compare their appearance with what we think they should be. This is the biggest obstacle in education. This way, there is no way to establish a relationship with them. A wall."
He said: "As long as we give up the idea of'what is good',Through observation, we can find the angle that best suits them.
"There is nothing necessary in life, only unnecessary expectations. Life without any expectation and face is the most beautiful and free, because in this way, people can hear their own heart.
Chai Jing asked, if they do not "compare" or "progress", will they not become weak after children enter the city and society?
Luanke said: If they can learn to create their own things, when they arrive in the city , There is no need to think "others are so rich, I don't have it, I was abandoned", "He can create it by himself, he doesn't need to escape. "
Luanke also particularly emphasized the three words "sense of belonging", "Chinese left-behind children will also become a factor of losing control, unless we can bring them a sense of belonging.
In Luanke's view, discipline can bring order, but it is passive. Only when a person belongs to one thing, a group of people, and a society can there be identification and the desire to take care of it from the heart.
In Luanke's heart, what can provide a sense of belonging is "creation", "play", and the color of life itself...
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This educational concept is full of " The color of “ruling by doing nothing” reveals the Zen machine of “realizing life”, with the color of utopia.
But Chai Jing feels that Luanke’s educational philosophy is supported by a set of powerful logic for careful thinking. This concept Harmony logic, in Luanke’s past practice, has encountered resistance and is improving step by step.
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Taking children to “do not do business properly” is actually building the mind
Luanke’s earliest practice of supporting education in China was in 1997. He taught German voluntarily at a school for the disabled in Nanning, but was fined 3,000 yuan by the Public Security Bureau for failing to obtain an "employment permit".
In 1999, he returned to Guangxi from Germany.When I went to a county middle school as a middle school teacher, because he couldn't improve the student's test scores, the parents had opinions and the school expelled him.
After he taught illiterate youths to build roads and draw maps, trying to change their lives, but found that they did not have the sensibility and creativity that they should have. After that, he started from elementary school children to teach music, art and other side subjects, but when the children grow up, when they go to junior high school, a large number of children will drop out of to study and work, and disappear into the vast crowd.
After that, he completely abandons the design of the result, puts down the expectation, and only accompanies the children, silently doing the most invisible but most essential spiritual construction of being a human being. The ten years in Banliecun was a career in which his ideas were truly put into practice.
Even in Banlie village, he was not unquestioned. Some parents felt that Luanke always took the children to "do not do business properly" and went to the wild, so he asked the principal for theory...
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But The story of a German who spent ten years like a day in a remote mountain village in China for teaching support has finally attracted the attention of the media and the Internet. The spotlight came on and various voices followed.
Some people regard him as a maverick hero of rural education experiments, a "Yang Leifeng" who moved China, and some people think he is a dangerous person, and even suspect him of "pedophilia".
The media attention destroyed the tranquility of the past and overwhelmed him. Later, he turned off the Weibo . He wrote in his personal book "What Brings Power": "I have become a bomb that can be ignited by the media at any time." I left China briefly several times,But it came back again.
Until the winter of 2013, he was at risk of being deported due to the invalidation of his visa and no stable job. In addition, a female volunteer who has served in the mountainous area for many years married him. His wife has reached the age when she hopes to be stable, and she is also afraid that Luanke's idealism will be used by others. She hopes that he will find a stable job in the city. .
Luanke, who is 45 years old, has stayed in this remote mountain village from 33 to 45 years old. However, this time, he had to consider the feelings of his family. In the winter of 2013, he left Banlie village. , This time, he didn’t come back again...
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Curiosity and confidence, the wealth left by this warm male teacher
In 2016, three years after Luanke left, some media came to Banlie Village to look for Luanke taught for ten years, is there any "trace" left.
The reporter came across Ya Hanyun, who once starred in the science fiction drama "Heart Mirror" and participated in the production of props. Now he is a young man. He entered the city to study at university. He chose automobile maintenance. The engine disassembly and assembly made him enjoy it. He felt that this was a bit similar to the props he had made in science fiction dramas.
The reporter also encountered a girl in the village who likes to paint. Teacher Lu's education made her shy and lively.
People in the village generally believe that curiosity and confidence are the wealth Luanke left to his children. The headmaster of Banliee Elementary School is now thinking about Luanke’s education methods, “Why do some children dare to draw on Luanke’s face with a brush, and Luanke is not stunned?”
A villager said: “Luanke is a foreigner Come to teach our children selflessly, think about it, we should also be with our children,But because of life is unavoidable.
Banlie Village without Luanke has become more lonely and depressed. Many volunteers who came to Luanke at the beginning have retreated. Due to the unsatisfactory teachers and fewer students, many parents put their children in Brought to the county school. Now, because most students live at Banlie Primary School and the gate is locked all day, the school puts up a sign: No swimming in the river.
(Take children to play in the river and ride a cow. Luanke’s normality)
It is said that after Luanke learned of this, he sent an email to the school teacher. The email said: "This is to restrict the freedom of students. The more stringent, the more problems there may be..."
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No news
The children Luanke accompanied are growing up, but the village itself is in depression and decline.
Chinese professors fight for ranking, German professors pay attention to curiosity.
Follow Chai Jing to interview Luanke’s director Fan Ming, After finishing the program, she was also very emotional. She mentioned in another article that a German professor who had participated in the founding of a Shanghai Institute of Biology. When working with some Chinese professors to determine the development goals for the institute, the Chinese professors proposed This point of view:
"Strive to become the world's top ten research institutes in the field of XX." The German professor disagrees with this statement very much, because "we are the only research institute in this field in the world, where is the top ten? His view is that makes the institute “a place where science is driven by curiosity.”
(the most famous modern science master Einstein is a man full of curiosity)
Fan Ming said with emotion that the motivation for many of our classmates to work hard comes to a large extent from comparison with others. Only if we win can we have confidence.
We live in comparison all the time, and we must compare it. Reflecting excellence, our Tsinghua Peking University is one of the goals of running a school,It is also "strive to become a world-class university". Our desire gradually becomes "let others praise us", but we forget what our most primitive desire is.
The real pleasure in life is the moment when you are submerged in something and completely forget about yourself. What it triggers is the simplest desire in people's hearts, just like our childhood, we are always full of pure curiosity about the world, and feel that life is full of freshness and beauty.
After finishing the episode of "Farewell Luanke", Chai Jing wrote in a blog post: " Luanke is not moving, not the kind of touch that will shed tears, he let you sit still In the night, I think'what kind of life I am living now'."
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