贫困地区之所以贫困,其原因可能各不相同:有自然条件的限制、有思想观念的束缚等等,但在这些原因当中,有一种原因是带有共性的,那就是教育的落后。地处湖北恩施土家族苗族自治州西南部的宣恩县,其贫困程度曾经是“国家级”。近几年来,当地党委政府充分利用当地资源,使这里的经济得以发展,而更可喜的是,这里教育事业的兴旺,特别是县第一中学的迅速发展,已成为该县全面建设小康社会的“星星之火”—— The reason why poverty-stricken areas are poor may vary for different reasons: restrictions on natural conditions, restraints on ideological concepts, and so on. However, one of the reasons for this is that they share commonalities, that is, backward education. Located in Xuan’en County, southwest of Enshi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture in Hubei Province, its poverty level was once “national level.” In recent years, the local Party committees and governments make full use of local resources to make the economy here to develop, but more gratifying is that the prosperity of education here, especially the rapid development of the county’s first middle school, has become the county building a moderately prosperous society “Fire of the Stars ” -