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Date: 23 Apr 91 23:50:53 GMT
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I think I mis-implied something in my posting about volunteerism.  I spoke of
"we favored few" ironically to mean us working mathematicians.  I did not mean
anything perjorative about current teachers...though there is little incentive
for good math teachers to teach K12 and as a result there are not as many
as there should be.  Nor did I mean to imply that "we" should drop everything
and donate all of our time to K12 education without sacrificed our academic status.
Mine was a modest proposal.  I had in mind ocassional visits to the local schools
to let the students know that mathematics is a live (literally) subject.

James