Choung Chum # 63

The Cambodia Rural School Project The Aeon Mango School 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 […]

The Cambodia Rural School Project

The Aeon Mango School



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.

In Their Own Words. . . 

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.]

 

On teaching: “I like helping the children improve.  It was difficult at first, when I had no experience.”

 

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.”