Education is the soft power of national development, and poverty alleviation through education is an important part of rural revitalization. In recent years, as a public welfare activity to help rural education poverty alleviation and development, volunteer education has been widely concerned. Taking the university of South China’s poverty alleviation project in Gutang Township of Lianyuan city as an example, this paper analyzes the current educational problems in remote areas and puts forward some suggestions on the existing problems.