我小时候比较调皮，写字马马虎虎。老师对我说：“请你放学后留校，我改作业，你要认真做功课！”从此，我的作业再不马虎。我在老师身上学到了认真学习的态度，我相信严师出高徒。当我长大后成为老师，我会对每位家长说：古人云，子不教，父之过，教不严，师之惰。我的学生也发现，在我的严格要求之下，学习在持续的进步。而且明白了只有辛勤的付出才有真正的收获。这种严格要求背后，充满了对学生真情关爱！

我的中学老师则不断鼓励我追求新的知识。他曾语重心长地对我说：“不要因为考试拿到高分就满足了，许多知识是在课堂上学不到的。我们应该博览群书，在知识的海洋中吸取更多的养分！”认真、辛勤、求新、博学，是我学习生涯中的老师给我的指路明灯，感恩能在求学中与这些人生导师们相遇。

人生第三阶段是工作历程中的恩师们。一位是带领我走向国际化教育管理的周惠卿校长，我们一起在香港及北京工作，她手把手地教我如何科学合理化地排好30个班的课表，如何编排学校的重大活动，如何协调老师们的工作，如何与各个部门进行沟通与合作。鼓励及支持我在中国实施国际化的教学方法。

工作很累，但很充实。另一位是恩师则是北京市鼎石学校大校长－闵茂康先生。闵茂康先生以中国主线造就了中国的世界学校，他的睿智，对全球教育的前瞻性的看法及根植中国、放眼世界的教育理念深深地影响了我。

我跟随他把中国主线的理念付诸于教学实践，获得极大的满足感和成就感。至今我与老校长们虽然在不同地域生活和工作，但仍然时时想念，感恩能在工作中与这些人生导师们相遇。还有我现在的志同道合的老师们，你们身上各自的专长永远是我学习的榜样。感谢你们的陪伴与支持，让中国的教育事业蒸蒸日上！

如今，我将积累了20多年的丰富国际教育经验带到成都，与我的团队在此辛勤耕耘，希望成都墨尔文成为中国西部地区最优质的国际化学校，将学生培养成为具有中国情怀的世界公民。在教师节到来之际，我向支持我、鼓励我、指导我的人生导师们致以节日的问候和深深的谢意！正是与你们的相遇，才有今天我的成长。

Julian Jeffrey  天津惠灵顿学校 校长

04

感谢恩师 Gratitude to My Teachers

I have been a teacher throughout my adult life. I enjoyed my own school life and studying history at university was always more than just seeking a gateway to a commercial career. I wanted to be able to talk about the subject I loved every day, and the most obvious route from there was into teaching. I have been privileged to teach at some of the finest schools in the UK and, since 2013, here in China.

Becoming a teacher was not part of my plans as I grew up, though. There are no teachers in my family, and my father was very surprised when I told him of my plans to train as a teacher. In fact, he said he thought I would last just 6 months in my first job before I got fed up and tried something else. But teaching has made me. Working with lively young minds has given me a sense of purpose and fulfilment that I had not found in other opportunities and it has rewarded me with a career rich in new opportunities, challenges and great fun. I have never really wanted to do anything else.

I had plenty of teachers in my own background who inspired me. Teachers like Mr Crawford, who taught me English and history when I first went to senior school and bred in me a lifelong love of reading. Or Mr Noble, who taught French and coached the senior football team as well as showing me that teachers could laugh with their pupils, not just at them. These were teachers who stood out. To me, the most important teachers are those who respond to the individual needs of their pupils, who light a spark that can burn far beyond the time in the classroom. Young people always remember their time in school, and for me it is those teachers who made the difference.

All teachers, I think, aspire to be remembered by their former pupils, but inevitably that cannot be the case. Ultimately, it is the teachers who believed in their pupils; who helped them to work towards their goals; who shared in their academic ambition; and who supported and challenged them to keep going, despite the difficulties – these are the ones who live longest in the memory.