徐玉卿是我的班主任兼数学老师。那是上世纪70年代初的事,距今已有40年。1969年,他从江苏师范学院(现苏州大学)毕业,被分配到江苏师范学院附中(现苏州市第十中学)工作。他先是跟着老教师见习,我们入学后,他才开始“正式”地当老师。我们是他亲自带的第一届学生,他是我们中学时代的第一位老师。凡事往往先入为主,好一阵子我都以为,中学教师就应该像徐老师那样——用心做老师。那时,我们上中学不用考试,是以地段划分升学学校,因此,班上各种层次的学生都有。徐老师的成功在于, Xu Yuqing is my class teacher and math teacher. That was the early 1970s, 40 years ago. In 1969, he graduated from Jiangsu Teachers College (now Suzhou University) and was assigned to work at the middle school of Jiangsu Teachers College (now Suzhou No.10 Middle School). He first followed the old teacher trainee, we entered school, he began “official ” as a teacher. We were the first student he brought personally and he was the first teacher of our high school years. Everything is often preconceived, and for a while I thought that secondary school teachers should be like Xu, a teacher. At that time, we did not have to sit for high school, so we decided to go to schools based on lots. Therefore, students of all levels in the class had it. Xu’s success is that,