The first time I saw this movie was in the first year of junior high school. In the bungalow classroom of a public junior high school in a township in northern Jiangsu, the head teacher took two English lessons and showed it to us on the TV in the classroom. A year later, he went to a private junior high school in a well-received county, and now he has moved to the city again. Every year and festival, the parents of the students will send him back home.
Many former junior high school students have entered the society after receiving nine years of compulsory education. In recent years, students from their alma mater have also been lost. Every time they go home, they can only see the renovated campus empty.
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Coinciding with Teachers' Day, there are students holding flowers everywhere on campus, and four or five flower sellers are also waiting at the school gate. A few days ago, I was planning a gift in the laboratory. After thinking about it, I bought a box of moon cakes. After being politely rejected by the teacher, I happened to share the meal. After seeing the massage chairs, air purifiers, etc. sent by other students, I suddenly felt that the moon cakes were really out of hand.
I don't know when, Teacher's Day has changed its nature.
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I haven’t watched the news deliberately for a long time. Anyway, I feel that the frequency of education problems in poverty-stricken areas appearing on the screen is getting less and less frequent. The media are becoming more and more skilled at hype, trying their best to attract the attention of the audience. What they need is only new and exciting topics. The problem of lag in education seems to be out of the audience's taste.
But, is it?
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When your teacher Wei has grown up, this movie has brought earth-shaking changes to her life: "I'm really lucky to be able to film with Uncle Zhang Yimou. The experience of filming "No One Less" changed my life Trajectory. I might have the opportunity to go to college and go abroad for further studies... Without this film, I might have been raising pigs at home, getting married, having children, and being a housewife."
What is the current state of education in remote areas? Some time ago, I read a compilation of Lu Anke's blog. The original blog has been closed for reasons that everyone knows. We don't expect education in those areas to get better all at once, at least let us see hope for it. In a country where even the Red Cross can't believe, there's just too much to doubt.
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