Lin Qiuyun

Ms Lin taught maths at a county secondary school for thirty-one years. Her students remember two things: she never rushed a problem, and there was always a radio, opened up, on her office windowsill.

She used to say that mending a radio and solving a problem are the same thing: first listen carefully to what is wrong, then go one part at a time.

She applied for this plaque herself. She is very much alive, and comes back now and then to add to it.

Ms Lin is fictional. This plaque shows what a plaque can hold.