In the lives of the elderly, the adjectives "humble" and "noble" reflect each other. Although his legs were disabled and his mobility was impossible, in those most difficult years, he insisted on teaching and educating people, paying silently without expecting anything in return. And when the happy time came, he chose to serve the elderly in the community, selflessly dedicated, and became a model teacher. There are noble students, who are interpreting the "nobility" of the teacher with a "humble" life.
After receiving the task of interviewing an old man with a noble life, although I consulted some materials about him, I still muttered in my heart: a disabled old man who does not speak Mandarin teaches other elderly people some simple "1", "2", "3" ...... How newsworthy can this be? But after spending an afternoon with Youguisheng, I was still deeply impressed by the noble personality reflected in him.
When he walked into the old man's house, he was preparing for the day's lesson. Books such as "Xi Jinping on Governing the Country", "A Brief History of the Communist Party of China", and "Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era" are lined with simple folding tables, which are his teaching materials.
An old man humbly told us that because his foundation was not solid when he was studying, his cultural level was not high, and he had forgotten many words after losing them for decades, so he had to "prepare for class" in advance before class every day.
On the simple bookshelf, we were also surprised to find a set of famous writer Lu Yao's famous book "Ordinary World", some Guisheng said that he was like Sun Shaoping in the book, he experienced a lot of pain and setbacks in the most difficult years, but he always had a positive attitude and was full of hope for the future.
When some elderly people came down from the upper floor in electric wheelchairs, the aunts of the elderly study class were already sitting around sewing Lisu satchels and headdresses, and the dads were doing the work. The class for the elderly not only offers cultural classes such as Chinese, mathematics, music, ideology and morality, but also offers manual skills classes, and now the finished products have been sold for thousands of yuan.
The old people were in a very good state of mind, and they also took the initiative to show us an allegro.
Huang Xiaomei, head of the Lushui Kangde Social Work Service Center, said: "After the old people came to the community, they deeply felt the care and care of the party and the government for the ethnic minorities in the border areas, and were full of gratitude to the party and the government in their hearts. ”
Huang Xiaomei told reporters that many songs were composed by the old people in the study class, including the teacher Guisheng, who would write some songs of gratitude to the party and lead everyone to sing them together.
On that day, a teacher of Guisheng gave a lecture on the theme of the Communist Party's kindness, which lasted for two hours. He conscientiously wrote down the words "the Communist Party is for the people" on the whiteboard, and then read it aloud to everyone over and over again.
Because most of the elderly in the community had little contact with Chinese before, it was difficult to understand the meaning of Chinese, so some noble students first explained in Chinese, and then made a detailed introduction in Lisu language, so as to try to make gratitude education into their minds and hearts.
"The Communist Party has been very good to our people, building us new houses, digging roads, and building bridges, and we must always remember the good of the Communist Party and always follow the Party. "You Guisheng said.
Except on weekends, the Senior Learning Class starts at 2:30 p.m. every day for a total of one hour. However, as the number of students grew, it was sometimes necessary to divide the classes into classes, and the class time was changed from one hour to two hours.
It was almost 5 o'clock in the afternoon after the two classes, and Gui Sheng, Huang Xiaomei and the two students of the study class went to the 90-year-old Pujiayi's home to teach him. They chatted with the elderly, sang folk songs, and had a great time. Huang Xiaomei said that for the disabled and the elderly with limited mobility, they have set up a volunteer service team with noble students as the backbone, and often come to their homes to provide them with warm services. Now the old man is no longer as autistic as he was when he first arrived in the community, and he is very happy every time he goes to his house.
Born in October 1959, you are born with two feet disabled, because his family is poor and has not been treated, so he has been able to rely on two wooden sticks to walk. The wheelchair he is currently in was distributed to him free of charge by the Disabled Persons' Federation after he was relocated to the Harmony Community.
Youguisheng's hometown is in Aqimeiluo Natural Village, Yabiluo Village, Gudeng Township, which was a very poor and backward small mountain village in the sixties and seventies of the last century. Although the village is small, the parents do not attach importance to education, and the children are also very casual about learning, often dropping out of school at the age of eight or nine to join the production team to work and earn a share of the work.
Because of the inconvenience of his legs and feet, some noble students did not go to school until they were 11 years old, but he was very studious, and after finishing primary school, he went to the county seat to study for three years of junior high school. When he was in elementary school, there was no dormitory at the school, and he had to walk more than an hour earlier than others every day with a disabled leg. Although every day was very hard, he never gave up. After entering junior high school, I was further away from home, so I lived in the school all the time, and only returned home once in three years when my mother died. At that time, except for him, who was physically special, all the other students had to participate in labor, so he spent almost all his time and energy on studying, so his grades were always very good. After graduating from junior high school, the principal recommended him to teach in a school with good conditions, but he refused and chose to return to Yabi Luo Aqimeiluo to become a private teacher.
A noble student said that the main reason why he gave up the opportunity to be a regular teacher and chose to become a private teacher was that he saw that the village was really backward and there was no intellectual, and he wanted to cultivate some literate and numeracy talents for the village through his own efforts.
At first, there were only 15 students in the school, and they belonged to different grades. Because they have to help the family work regularly, they can't study with peace of mind, and in the long run, many students can't keep up with their grades, and in the end, only 5 students finish primary school, which makes you very sad. Later, a noble student realized that the fundamental reason why the students could not study with peace of mind was that their families were too poor, so he tried his best to help the poorest students. There is more than one acre of open space next to the teaching point, and some noble students take the students to use their spare time to reclaim it and plant it to give to the most difficult students.
In winter, the children are very thinly dressed, and when winter comes, they shiver with cold. Youguisheng took out all his savings and hired someone to buy a sewing machine for 164 yuan, taught himself sewing skills, and helped sew clothes for the children when he was free, so that they could dress warmly.
Most of the students and parents do not know the importance of learning, and some noble students often drag their broken bodies from house to house to persuade and mobilize them.
Some students firmly believe and tell students that if they study well, they will have a certain future.
With the unremitting efforts of your students, many parents are willing to send their children to school, and many children have successfully completed primary school. Some noble students are very proud to say that eight of the students he has taught have participated in the work, and some have even become leading cadres.
In 1988, with the education reform, the teaching point where Youguisheng was located was withdrawn and merged, and he also retired from the education post with honor, and it became a regret for Youguisheng that he could not continue to teach and educate people.
During the period of poverty alleviation, Lushui City carried out ex-situ poverty alleviation and relocation for the poor people in some areas with poor living environment, and the Aqimeiluo group where Guisheng was located was relocated to the harmonious community as a whole. Although it is indeed much more convenient to move from a remote mountainous area to a city to live, because of his limited mobility, you Guisheng feels that his life is still boring, and it is not until he becomes a teacher in the old people's study class that he regains the long-lost value of life.
Harmony Community is the largest relocation and resettlement community in Lushui City, with a total population of more than 10,000 people, including more than 1,200 people over 60 years old. Everyone comes from different towns and different ethnic groups, with different living customs and many differences in language, and many elderly people are not used to living in the community for the first time.
She said that most of the people in the community are Lisu people, and there are only a few Lemo people, so she can't find anything to do after moving to the community, and it is difficult to find someone to talk about.
La Sizi said: "I can't read, I can't write my name, I can't speak Chinese and Lisu, and my life is very inconvenient." ”
Huang Xiaomei, the head of Kangde's social work, said that there are still many elderly people like La Sizi. "Because our seniors are moving from the countryside to new urban communities, we find that they often lose their homes, can't find their way home, can't make phone calls, and can't write their names. ”
How to help the elderly adapt to the new life in the community has become a key consideration for community cadres. The community decided to set up a study class for the elderly led by the Kant Social Work Service Center, but it became a new difficulty in determining who would be the teacher. After continuous investigation and selection, they finally selected a teacher with teaching experience. Unexpectedly, as soon as he opened his mouth, he was rejected by Youguisheng.
Huang Xiaomei said: "His health is not very good, and he may not have taught for many years, so he is worried that he may not be able to teach the elderly." But Huang Xiaomei did not give up, she learned in detail that you have not only teaching experience, but also enthusiasm and love, so she patiently mobilized him again.
Huang Xiaomei's patience ignited the long-buried dream of "teaching" in Youguisheng's heart, and finally agreed to be the "teacher" of the elderly study class. Subsequently, Huang Xiaomei and Youguisheng carefully formulated the teaching plan, discussed the teaching content and methods, and made full preparations for the opening of the study class.
"When I found him at that time, he was actually reluctant at first, but through our mobilization, we told him that there are many elderly people in the community who have learning needs, and after consideration, he agreed to be the teacher of this class. Huang Xiaomei said.
In October 2020, the Senior Learning Class was officially launched. Some noble students start with the simplest words such as 1, 2, 3, 4, person, mouth, hand, etc., and teach them carefully word by word. He said that 98 percent of the elderly in the community had never been to school, and because of their old age, their memory was poor, and sometimes they had to repeat a word for two or three days before they could remember it.
In order to improve everyone's interest in learning, some students came up with a good way to write the students' names, building numbers, house numbers and ID numbers on the whiteboard, and let everyone memorize them during class. After a period of teaching, the students have made great progress. "Now they can make phone calls and recite their ID numbers, which saves them a lot of trouble. Huang Xiaomei said.
In order to increase the enthusiasm of the students, some noble students took advantage of the characteristics of the Lisu people who can sing and dance well, and taught the old people a lot of red songs that praise the party Central Committee and sing about the new life. Some noble students said that living in safe and comfortable buildings provided by the state, the elderly receiving monthly pension subsidies, the young people being organized by the government to work abroad to earn money, and the children attending school for free are all the concern and care of the party and the state for the people in the border areas, so the education of gratitude to the community residents is the main content of his teaching.
In order to facilitate the understanding of the elderly, in addition to Chinese singing, some noble students also changed many red songs into Lisu language. In addition, he also created more than a dozen Lisu "red songs".
With the diversification of teaching methods, the enthusiasm of the students has become higher and higher, and some elderly people who were previously reluctant to participate have gradually joined in.
"At first, there were only three people in the class, but later there were five, a dozen, and now there are more than 300 old people on the roster. Huang Xiaomei told reporters.
Up to now, the elderly study class has carried out 95 learning activities for the elderly to integrate into the new life, taught more than 500 courses, benefited nearly 20,000 elderly people in the community, and indirectly benefited more than 2,500 children and adolescents.
Huang Xiaomei told reporters that in the past, many people wanted to go back to their hometown because they were not suitable for community life, but after the study class, basically no one had this idea anymore. Moreover, the masses from different towns and ethnic groups have become more united, and harmonious communities have become more harmonious.
Huang Xiaomei said: "The cohesion between ethnic groups is stronger, and they can learn and do things together. If the elderly of a family do not come to the class for a few days, they will also take the initiative to visit him at his home to find out about his condition. ”
Jin Xiuhua, deputy director of the harmonious community of Daliandi Street, told reporters that with the elderly study class with noble students, the old people in the community have become the real masters of the community from not being able to listen to or speak Chinese at the beginning, not adapting to community life, and unable to find things to do.
They voluntarily participate in various literary and artistic activities in the community every day, and at the same time, they also give full play to their surplus heat and set up a civilized etiquette persuasion team for elderly volunteers, becoming the spokesperson of community civilization and harmony, and also becoming a good helper for the community to carry out social governance work. Jin Xiuhua said.
A noble student said: "It is my happiest thing to be able to help the elderly as much as I can, so that their old age life will be happier and more exciting." Now the elderly in the community need me, and I need them, and I am willing to continue teaching until I can't move. ”
Lushui financial media reporter Duan Guochun Yang Quan