Walk across the mountains and rivers to go to school

This is a documentary. The latest episode tells the story of two children in Papua New Guinea, 8-year-old boy Daniel and 12-year-old girl Ruth.

Their village is more than 100 kilometers away from the school, because all the way is tropical rain forest landform, so we can only walk, which takes about a week.

After breakfast, Daniel's father used delicious meat worms as a side dish, took his son to school with a machete, and took his neighbor's daughter Ruth.

No one in the village is educated, and only these two children will be the only ones. Although I don't know if I can reach the school safely 100 km away, both families have to make up their tuition and living expenses before they set off resolutely.

Three people walked barefoot through the dense forest, carrying their simple bags. Daniel's father opened the way with a machete to prevent poisonous snakes.

It is almost a virgin forest that has never been developed. There are many rivers, and they have to wade through nearly 100 rivers. When I reached the last big river, I couldn't see the people crossing the river or canoes because of the rain and rising water level.

Just like in Survival in the Wild, they built a shelter by the river, made a fire, cooked the python caught on the road and had a good meal.

The next day, the weather improved, the water level of the river became lower, and people crossing the river rowed boats. So they spent twice as much money as usual to cross the river, cross the last checkpoint on the way to school, and rush to the door of hope.

Perhaps the journey went smoothly, and the biggest challenge appeared at this time. The river is rough and rough. Whether you can swim or not, you will die if you fall into the river. Speaking of which, people can't help but think of the Tongtian River in The Journey to the West. There is no choice but to cross the river by luck.

Daniel is so scared that he can't overcome it. Ruth decided to cross the river alone. Daniel's father encouraged Ruth and could only accompany his son home with regret.

In the end, Ruth successfully crossed the river and spent the night alone in the jungle before arriving at school safely.

When Ruth finally sat in the classroom and opened the textbook, she smiled and her new life accepted her. She also plucked up the courage to embrace her new life.

Reading has never been easy since ancient times. Whether living in a forest or a city, from the moment you decide to explore your own world, you should be prepared for the unknown wind and rain. This is the price of exploration and the meaning of growth.

I don't blame the children who live opposite the school, nor do I blame the children who live a good life in education, because every child has different experiences on the way to school, and every child has his own difficulties of "wading through mountains and rivers". Regional factors are only visible differences, and many invisible differences exist objectively among children.

Just sigh and sigh, it turns out that the road to school can be so difficult. Just because of the hardships along the way, it is enough to make a movie. Compared with these two children, are we unconsciously happy?

Of course, every generation has its own difficulties in going to school, so going to school is really endowed with a sacred sense of mission and decisive significance.

Since we talk about the significance of going to school, we might as well delve into it. What is the purpose of going to school? This question is usually answered many years after graduation, rather than having a correct answer at the beginning.

Sometimes children don't study hard, and adults usually say, "If you don't study hard, you can only grow up ...! "And it is amazing that every child hears a different answer to" intimidation ",which leads children to know that it is an expression and unreliable when they communicate together.

Therefore, how to teach children to study hard has become a very important course. Unfortunately, there is no place to teach this important course, and everything can only come from practice.

As a result, the lives of all children are very different, even those of children in the same family are completely different. There must be parents' prejudice and children's own problems, but in the final analysis, complex and changeable environment acts on children, forming the final result.

But in any case, it is almost everyone's knowledge to go to school no matter how difficult it is. Going to school is not an easy road, especially in poor families, but there is obviously no way out without going to school, so every time "knowledge changes fate" seems to be right and cannot be refuted.

Times are developing. In China, from nine-year compulsory education to twelve-year compulsory education, more and more children can receive education. Although some areas lack educational resources, a good education system is a necessary guarantee for more children to go to school. Whether it is fair or not, it reflects the greatest attention to education.

With the great development of education, new problems have emerged. Originally, college graduates were relatively high academic qualifications, but now almost all of them are college graduates, making it more difficult to find a job.

Of course, this is also accompanied by the great development of other aspects of society. Every industry is experiencing its own rapid changes. Every day, industries are eliminated and new industries are born. Many concepts are constantly refreshed every day. How to find a foothold in the rolling tide of the times can't be solved just by going to school. The knowledge learned in school is only a tool to settle down, some are not even available tools, others are directly abandoned tools, and social experience has become the first hurdle.

How can I have social experience? For every child who goes to school, it is better to leave the protection of his family and go to the outside world to learn how to survive, how to get along with others, how to find his dream and how to realize it.

The road to school itself is to learn social experience and knowledge by the way. Learning the code of conduct and understanding the world we live in, mastering the necessary common sense, feelings and thinking of life, exercising hands-on ability, cultivating language ability and forming good behavior habits are probably as important as learning knowledge.

So what's the point of going to school? You gave it. If you think it can change your destiny, it can. If you think it can make your dream come true, it can. If you think it can make your life more meaningful, it can do it. ...

The key for every child to go to school lies in what he does at school. It is also nine-year compulsory education, but due to different time and energy, different absorption and digestion abilities, different talents, different influences on family environment, different perceptions of the outside world, various factors such as acting forces and children's own reactions, the result of struggle is not necessarily happy, and usually there are more or less regrets.

Education is regrettable and irreversible, but there is one thing that almost everyone can do without regrets, and that is love, even if you lose yourself and love to exhaustion, you will never relax.

Everyone has crossed mountains and rivers, rapids and rapids, rivers and ghosts with his own life. Courage is more meaningful than stopping to complain, overcoming difficulties is more meaningful than standing still, and finding self-realization is more meaningful than following the crowd. As long as you look for it, you will find all the meaning.