Weeping as she went: The early schools of the mountain areas were even more lacking in resources than are their counterparts of today. Some of them had a lot of children whose lives were both materially and spiritually very poor and there were also some "exiled frontier teachers" and principals there who were not really up to the job.
早年的山區學校，比現在更缺乏資源，有的是許多物質及精神生活都很匱乏的小孩，還有一些「發配邊疆」，在教學、人格上並不是很適任的師長。