text/Flying Yu Talks about Education
Teachers are like candles, burning themselves and illuminating others. Many people are familiar with this sentence praising the teacher, but if you have heard the story of Teacher Hou Changliang teaching in the mountain village, you will feel that this sentence is far from evaluating his noble sentiment.
As a volunteer, this teacher has taught in the deep mountains of Guangxi, Guizhou, Yunnan and other places. He persisted for 11 years and devoted his youth to mountain village education.
His teaching story in the mountain village has been reported by many media. In 2015, he was named "Top Ten News Figures of Guangxi's Model Citizens" and has been on CCTV many times. However, such a responsible and caring teacher eventually left the mountain village school. Perhaps it is impossible for ideals to compete with reality.
from Hunan, Dongkou County, Dongkou County, Shaoyang City, Hou Changliang has been from a poor family since childhood. In order to support him and his younger brother, his parents saved money. His brother dropped out of school and went out to work before he finished the second year of junior high school. He cherishes the opportunity to study more than many people; Hou Changliang also has a deep understanding of the importance of education.
When I was in college at Hunan University of Arts and Sciences, Hou Changliang learned that remote mountainous areas not only lag behind in education, but also lack teachers. After graduating from university, he wanted to do something for education in remote mountainous areas.
As the only college student in the family, his parents originally expected Hou Changliang to earn money to support his family, but Hou Changliang chose another way. came to Youqi Primary School in Dahua Yao Autonomous County, Hechi, Guangxi to teach through college student volunteer service plan .
Before registering at school, Hou Changliang was full of longing, but after coming to school, reality hit him hard. In the first two years of teaching in Guangxi, students always dropped out of school.
In the first two years, Hou Changliang's main job was not to teach, but to conduct home visits and persuade parents to support their children to come to school. For this reason, he even accompanied his parents to do farm work. Despite his great efforts, the results were still not ideal. From the fourth grade to the sixth grade, a total of 15 students dropped out of school one after another.
Seeing this situation, Hou Changliang was shaken by . After two years of teaching support, he came to Shenzhen to work. When he left, students and parents came to see him off. Everyone hoped that Hou Changliang would not leave. Even after arriving in Shenzhen, the students still called and sent him text messages through the phones of his aunt and uncle, hoping that Hou Changliang could come back to teach him.
If Hou Changliang will not go after going to Shenzhen, we may not hear his touching deeds, but he is Hou Changliang after all. He cannot let go of the education in the mountain village, nor can he give up the children he taught. He earned 3,000 yuan during the summer vacation and returned to Youqi Primary School again.
However, after coming back this time, Hou Changliang's teaching life was a little unstoppable. When the operating conditions and teaching staff of Youqi Primary School improved, Hou Changliang went to Jipo Primary School in Guizhou and Xiangyang Primary School in Yunnan to teach.
According to Hou Changliang's own statement, he will run wherever he is remote and where he needs a teacher more.
Fortunately, on the way to teach, Hou Changliang met his fellow villager, a graduate student Thunderstorm Pill from Northwest A&F University . Lei Yudan also has a heart that dedicates the education of the mountain village. The two supported each other when teaching at Xiangyang Primary School, encouraged each other, from strangers to familiarity, and finally got married and dedicated their youth to the education of the mountain village together.
This year, the road was built at the gate of Xiangyang Primary School. This school will be cancelled and the children will go to township central primary schools with better teaching conditions. Hou Changliang, who had been teaching in the mountain village for 11 years, finally decided to leave and return to Hunan to work with his wife.
Hou Changliang chose to teach in a mountain village for his own ideals, but teachers are also ordinary people, and their parents need to support them. He also hopes to give his wife Geng Aihong a life. If he continues to stick to it, he may not be able to give his family a better life.
When Hou Changliang was interviewed by the media, he revealed that his monthly salary was 500 yuan. Many people may not look down on such a salary standard, but Hou Changliang has been teaching in the mountain village for 11 years.
With this, whether Hou Changliang leaves or not, he deserves our respect and admiration, because he has done things that many people cannot do and contributed his youth to mountain village education.
Pursuing ideals can realize oneself, but ideals are ultimately hard to match reality
Teaching in a mountain village is undoubtedly the career pursued by Hou Changliang and his ideal.
But there is an important premise, that is, life must be secure, be able to take good care of your family, and give your parents and wives a better quality of life. Hou Changliang has already started a family and his parents need support. If his monthly salary is only this little, continuing to teach in the mountain village will make you lose sight of one thing.
We must not engage in moral kidnapping . Everyone has the right to pursue a better life. Although the identity of teachers is more special, they are also ordinary people, and they also have joys, anger, sorrows, and happiness, just like you and me. What's more, Hou Changliang, who only teaches as a volunteer, is not a teacher with a staffing position. We have no reason to let him continue to stick to mountain village education.
If you move out Maslow's demand hierarchy theory , Hou Changliang is now leaving.
Maslow's hierarchy of needs divides human needs into five layers, from low to high, namely physiological needs, safety needs, social needs, respect needs, and self-realization needs.
It is not difficult to find that Hou Changliang teaches in a mountain village. It seems that he can achieve security needs, social needs, respect needs and self-realization needs, but the most important premise is that his physiological needs are not met. To put it bluntly, his income is not high and his life is not guaranteed. His monthly salary may only be able to cope with his life and cannot allow his family to live a better life.
is not satisfied with the lowest requirements, and even if other more advanced needs are met, it will be difficult to last long. can also be said that pursuing ideals can realize oneself, but ideals can never compete with reality. sounds cruel, but it is realistic.
We can imagine how reluctant Hou Changliang and his wife Lei Yudan would leave, and how sad the local students and parents would be when they bid farewell.
But we should also know that the conditions for running mountain village education and whether children can receive good education cannot be achieved by Hou Changliang alone. More young teachers need to join and the strength of the country can reverse the backward situation of mountain village education.
We are very pleased to see that the basic education facilities in mountain villages and rural areas have gradually improved in recent years, but there is a problem that has not been completely solved, that is, the teaching staff of mountain village schools is still very weak, and young people are unwilling to go to mountain village schools to teach.
What should I do to encourage young talents to take root in mountain village schools?
Is it possible to increase salary or provide staffing, or can I transfer to townships or county towns to teach after working for many years? This is a question worth our consideration. Teaching and educating people cannot rely solely on a certain person, nor can you just talk about dedication. Do you think this is the case?
