School on Cliff (Chapter One)

Isolated, impoverished but not desperate, Guilin Li, a primary school teacher who has been working in a school on cliff at Ta-liang Mountains in rural China, said he had no regrets to devote his life in teaching their lovely students for 27 years.

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Li was greatly shocked by the appalling poverty on his first visit to the village. Critical shortage in food and life supplements, barely educated in literacy and only 3 teachers had ever taught here for no more than 10 years. Their only path to the knowledge is a timber and rope ladder to a primary school at an altitude of 2800 meters high on cliff.

 

What made Lis decision to become a teacher on cliff?

 

Mandarin Producer Cindy Xie has more.