Sowing seeds in the mountains

(ANTV) - To bring knowledge to students in mountainous areas, many young teachers are ready to sacrifice their youth, accepting all hardships and difficulties. In the festive atmosphere of welcoming the new school year, we visited a school in the mountainous area of ​​Ban Phung commune, Sa Pa district, Lao Cai province.

The road from the center of Ban Phung commune to Ban Toong village in Sa Pa district, Lao Cai province, has been cut off due to landslides caused by heavy rain. It takes nearly two hours of crossing streams and climbing mountains to reach this remote Hmong village.

The dilapidated buildings perched precariously on the cliff face serve as classrooms for over a dozen first and second-grade students in the village. Their first days at school were filled with apprehension, but they found joy in meeting their teachers and friends.

The joy of the students is also a source of encouragement for the teachers in the highlands. Having been in the profession for over 5 years, Teacher Hoang Van Hoc has spent that same amount of time living in the most difficult and remote villages of Sa Pa district.

The Toòng Mông school has only one teacher. The makeshift classroom, with its simple bamboo walls, offers no protection against the biting cold of winter or the scorching heat of summer.

Without friends to talk to, without electricity, and of course without phone signal or internet… for a young man like Mr. Hoc, it was difficult to adapt to the new environment. But there seemed to be an invisible thread connecting the teacher and students here, so that all difficulties and obstacles could no longer stand in his way, allowing the young teacher to persevere in his classes and school.

The innocence and thirst for knowledge of the students are what motivate the teachers to have more strength and love to impart knowledge to the children in the highlands.

For the most part, the teachers stationed in remote villages are young people who volunteer to "plant the seeds of literacy" and "nurture the people." For these teachers, the educational career doesn't just stop at teaching children to read and write in the classroom; it also includes climbing mountains and crossing streams to encourage students to attend school, and sharing the hardships and difficulties with the local people.

And so, young people like the teachers in Ban Phung, and many other young teachers in mountainous areas, have been diligently sowing seeds of knowledge in this challenging land, carrying literacy across the mountains, and bringing love to the children of the highlands.

Source: http://laocai.edu.vn/hoc-tap-lam-theo-tam-guong-dao-duc-ho-chi-minh/nguoc-non-gieo-chu-274467