Choung Chum Socheat is the Director of the Aeon Mango School. (July, 2001)
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The Cambodia Rural School Project
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Choung Chum Socheat is the Director of the Aeon Mango School.
(July, 2001)
Choung Chum Socheat is the Director of the Aeon Mango School. He has been a teacher for 20 years and a school director for 18. He is 46-years-old and married with one son and two daughters. He lives 2.5 km away from the school and comes by motorbike.
| On becoming a teacher: | “I like Cambodian literature,
and I think it is important for my students to learn all about the
history and culture of the Khmer people. When the Democratic Kampuchea time was finished, there were
no teachers, so I volunteered to become one.”
[Democratic Kampuchea was the name given to country of Cambodia
during the Khmer Rouge regime.]
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| On teaching: | “I like helping the children
improve. It was difficult
at first, when I had no experience.”
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| On subjects: | “I like to teach Khmer, but mathematics is difficult to teach. My students like Khmer because that makes it easy for them to read. Mathematics is difficult for them because we have no equipment to demonstrate the examples.” |