The German teacher taught in Guangxi for free for 10 years, why did he regret to leave? Could it be that the mountains cannot retain people?

Lü Buwei: There is no ancient sage king who did not respect his teacher. The German Tang Ruowang was ecstatic when he heard from Father Matteo Ricci that Chinese people valued mathematics and astronomy knowledge. He also came to China as a Western missionary in 1622, and was valued by Dorgon because of his astronomical knowledge.

In addition, he also cured the disease of Meng Guqing, the niece of the Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang. He was recognized by Xiaozhuang as his adoptive father and could enter and exit the palace freely. During his interactions with Emperor Shunzhi, he taught Shunzhi some Western scientific knowledge and became the first "foreign teacher" in the Qing Dynasty. Shunzhi called him "respected grandpa."

Tang Ruowang has lived in China for 47 years. He not only introduced advanced Western knowledge to China, but also studied Chinese classics, history and ethics, and built a bridge of communication between China and the West. In 2011, China had 15.39 million teachers, and there were more than 3.3 million rural teachers. However, there is still a shortage of teachers in some poor areas, especially foreign teachers. However, the foreign teacher Lu Anke originally had a good academic qualification and could find a better job, but in 1997 he went to the mountains of Guangxi to teach for free. However, he regretfully left after teaching for 10 years. Why is this?

Luanke, like Tang Ruowang, is from Germany. He was born in Hamburg in 1968 and is a graduate of industrial design from the Hamburg Academy of Fine Arts. In 1990, I traveled to China for 3 months to experience Chinese culture. This three-month trip to China left a great impression on him. In order to have a longer time to understand China, he was admitted to Southeast University of China in 1992 and then transferred to Guangxi Agricultural College. It was at Guangxi Agricultural College that he met Guangxi and decided to pursue a career in education in China.

Luanke initially taught German for free at a disabled school for men, but because he did not have an employment certificate, he was suspected of being a trickster. The German Embassy paid a deposit before he was released. Lu Anke did not give up because of this incident. Two years later, he went to teach English in a school in Guangxi County.

The teaching philosophy of Westerners is to pay more attention to children's imagination and creativity, rather than to the standard answers of education. Therefore, his teaching method is not to use textbooks, not to take exams, and to encourage children to speak English. Come out, it doesn’t matter if you say something wrong. Although Luanke's idea was good, the reality was cruel. Only 6 people in the class passed, and the average score was in the low 20s, the lowest in the school's history. Parents jointly asked the school to replace him, and Luanke was fired.

In 2001, Lu Anke went to teach in Aidong Town, Guangxi. He rented a classroom for 10 yuan a month to teach. The children who came to school were 14-18 years old, but some of them had very poor academic performance. Some people, some of whom have never been to school, are so reclusive that they cannot even speak Mandarin. Lu Anke has nothing to do. A foreigner has to take on the responsibility of teaching Chinese people to speak Mandarin. However, Luanke gradually discovered that he alone could not change the rigid thinking of these children. They would only complete the assigned tasks and had no creativity at all.

Lu Anke learned a lesson from the students in Aidong Town. He believed that education must start from childhood in order to change their rigid thinking patterns. In 2003, he walked a five-hour mountain road to Gangshen, Guangxi. I teach in Banlie Village, a place with rugged mountain roads, inconvenient transportation, and surrounded by mountains and rivers. Almost all the children are left-behind children. However, Lu Anke integrated well into the life here and became a "fake foreigner". He would wear Chinese peasant clothes, and the children would play around him. He would go to different students' homes every week to chat and do things with the children. Farm work is like a biological father and son. Some students said to him: "Lao Lu is my father."

Some people say that Lu Anke is an invisible rich man. In fact, he has been teaching in Banlie Village for 10 years without receiving a salary or other sponsorship. All expenses come from manuscript translation fees and the 5,000 yuan sent to him by his parents every year. He spent 100 yuan at his own expense to rent teachers and buy stationery for the children. There was a better job in the county for him, but he refused for the sake of these children in the countryside.

Like Zhang Yimou's movie "No One Less", Lu Anke's class had fewer and fewer students day by day, from 46 to 8. Some of them went to work, some got married, and some Jail? But none of these were the reasons for Lu Anke to leave Banlie Village. Instead, after he became famous, rumors outside the mountain forced him to leave. Some people suspected that his purpose of teaching was impure, and some said that he had weird quirks with children. Finally, he left: "I am not a native of the country, but I have to take care of some things that outsiders should not take care of. I shouldn't take care of it." ?Then he left with his wife, a volunteer who had been teaching for 8 years.

Guan Hanqing: "Once a teacher, always a father." Lu Anke went to Vietnam after leaving Guangxi. There is not much information about his current situation now. Although he was not kept in the mountains, the children in Banlie Village will remember that there was a yellow-haired father Lu Anke who brought them care and concern. .