“I grew up in a village with 500 people in rural China. My parents were rice and vegetable farmers. There wasn’t much education, but the people were very pure and uncomplicated. Everyone talked to each other, and they didn’t think about the outside world very often. But the isolation could be limiting. I had to leave the village when I was eleven to get an education. And recently the village’s only primary school closed because there was no one left to teach. So after I graduate, I’d like to go back and open a school. Then I’d like to open schools all across rural China.”