Teacher's Day

China has an annual Teacher's Day, when people celebrate the teachers who are or were important in their education. It's a wonderful idea, and says a lot about how China has gotten where they are in the world. This year it was September 10, and a friend of ours, Yang Ke, sent us a photo of his teacher, Shi Jiaoying, with himself and some of Prof. Shi's other students. This is doubly wonderful because Jiaoying is one of our best friends and was part of my birthday celebrations this summer. Here's the photo, taken on the new campus of Zhejiang University; it's clear who is being celebrated, and Ke is the young man on the right, who has just finished his PhD and is about to start working with Microsoft Research Shanghai.