A German boy has been teaching in the mountains of China for 10 years. His students called him dad. What happened next?

Do you still remember the original fantasy? Are you living the life you like now? You yearn for freedom, but have you made any effort for it? There is such a person who does not seek fame and wealth, does not like luxury, wears loose sportswear, and comes to China thousands of miles away from Germany just for the life he longs for. He is the candidate for the 2006 Impressive Chinese Person of the Year, Lu Anke. An education researcher who was born in Hamburg, Germany, but has taught in the mountains of Guangxi, China for 10 years

In the summer of 1990, Luanke, who was only 22 years old, and his family set foot on the land of China. This journey also decided his life. The trip to China lasted only three months, but Luanke was deeply fascinated. After returning to Germany, Luanke kept looking for opportunities to set foot on this mysterious and beautiful land again. Until 1992, when he was studying at the Academy of Fine Arts in Hamburg, he obtained an exchange student place with Southeast University. As an exchange student, Lu Anke came to China again. Since he could not live with Chinese people at Southeast University, he returned to China in 1993. Transferred to Guangxi Agricultural University. After studying abroad, when he returned to Germany, he found that he yearned for China even more. He wanted to stay in China and live there.

After graduating from college in 1996, he immediately set foot on the land of China and returned to the country that had haunted him. At the beginning, he came to a village in Guangxi and became a real farmer. He could do everything from plowing the land, sowing seeds, and drying millet. Moreover, he did not simply do farm work mechanically. He also liked to study methods. He found that the villagers The traditional working method was time-consuming, laborious, and extremely inefficient, so he used his theoretical knowledge to design a new type of threshing machine that was efficient and convenient. It was for this reason that he came up with the idea of ????establishing an educational institution. He found that he wanted to change this The backward current situation must start with education.

Since 1997, this young man who was far away from his hometown began his ten-year education and research journey. First, he founded a youth study class in rural Guangxi, but was fined and ordered to close because he did not have an employment permit. But do you think this little hardship will make him pack his bags and go home like a defeated rooster? This is not his style. When the class failed, he went to teach German to the disabled. When he was deported to the country due to incomplete documents, he changed his visa and continued to come back. In 1999, he returned to Guangxi from Germany. He became a junior high school teacher, but China's educational environment and educational philosophy were seriously inconsistent with him, causing him to be expelled from the local school. In order to be an unregulated teacher, he came up with a coup...

Lu Anke, who was expelled from the school in 1999, set up an office, an education affiliated to the Guangxi Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation Commission The bureau is not an organization qualified to intervene. With legal and compliant rights, he came to a remote mountain village in Guangxi in 2001, a place where no one could even speak Mandarin, and began his true education research. Here he lived the life he wanted as he wished. As a young volunteer teacher, although he also taught knowledge to the villagers, his method was different from traditional Chinese teaching methods, so he had to vaccinate the villagers in advance. He introduced the similarities of his classroom to the parents of the students.

In this way, special education with no textbooks, no exams, and no diploma became popular in a small village in the mountains of Guangxi, and he was warmly welcomed by the local villagers. His class is so homogeneous, there is no right or wrong, just what you want to do. The unique classroom made the children fall in love with learning, and also fell in love with this "foreign devil" teacher. Since most of the children in the village were left-behind children, he was always worried about the children, so he would often visit the students at their homes. , every day he changes to another house and eats and sleeps with the students, so he is affectionately called "Dad" by the students.

In 2003, Lu Anke came to another school that was equally difficult and welcomed him - Banlie Primary School in Chexue Township, Donglan County. This is a primary school that fully accepts him, no matter which stage of schooling, and also allows him to be the principal and continue his education and research in his own unique way. In this way, he once again started his new life of supporting teaching, integrating theory into the classroom, allowing children to start by themselves, think by themselves, invent by themselves, and even build bridges by themselves.

With the joint efforts of him and his classmates, a 300-meter-long small bridge designed and built by the classmates themselves was built. Under his leadership, the creativity of the children in this village has improved. A qualitative leap and no longer confused about the future.

Lu Anke's unique educational philosophy has given wings to fantasy to students in the mountains of Guangxi, changing the traditional thinking of smoking, drinking and fighting. Let them learn to think, learn what the value of life is, and learn how to develop inventions. There he mingled with the children, climbing trees, catching loaches, and swimming in the river together after class. He became the children's lifelong guide and lifelong friend.

In 2006, Lu Anke, who lived deep in the mountains, became known to everyone. Young volunteers and Chinese figures who impressed him began to vigorously promote him. But this is not the life he wants. He keeps a low profile and avoids interviews with the news media, but this has attracted social doubts. Some people say that he is a risk element, and some people say that he has "pedophilia." In order to clarify misunderstandings, better teaching , in 2009, he quietly accepted an exclusive interview with reporter Chai Jing, but this interview completely exposed him to the eyes of the public, breaking both him and the original tranquility of Banlie Village. Various unknown letters, various Overwhelmed by reporters who didn't know where they came from, he had no choice but to shut down Weibo in a low-key manner and withdraw from everyone's sight. Only then did he gain a moment of peace.

In 2013, this ideal pioneer. After taking root in China for more than ten years, he made a surprising decision to leave China, leave the training institution he founded, and take a long leave to return to the place where he was born. I think he was used to peace. , got used to the innocent smiling faces of children, but due to the influx of media, the life he longed for changed, and his heart gradually became overwhelmed. He had no choice but to leave China to find his ideal pure land. No one knows his current situation, but I believe that he will definitely set foot on the land of China again, because this is the place where he realizes his value and has his ideals and hopes.