Although Lewis Carroll Thought Of The Hunting

Biographical History, As Taught In Our Public Schools, Is Still Largely A History Of Boneheads; Ridiculous Kings And Queens, Paranoid Political Leaders, Compulsive Voyagers, Ignorant General The Flotsam And Jetsam Of Historical Currents. The Men Who Radically Altered History, The Great Scientists And Mathematicians, Are Seldom Mentioned, If At All.

If Present Trends Continue, Our Country May Soon Find Itself Far Behind Many Other Nations In Both Science And Technology Nations Where, If You Inform Strangers That You Are A Mathematician, They Respond With Admiration And Not By Telling You How Much They Hated Math In School, And How They Sure Could Use You To Balance Their Checkbooks.

Indeed, There Is Something To Be Said For The Old Math When Taught By A Poorly Trained Teacher. He Can, At Least, Get Across The Fundamental Rules Of Calculation Without Too Much Confusion. The Same Teacher Trying To Teach New Math Is Apt To Get Across Nothing At All.

If God Creates A World Of Particles And Waves, Dancing In Obedience To Mathematical And Physical Laws, Who Are We To Say That He Cannot Make Use Of Those Laws To Cover The Surface Of A Small Planet With Living Creatures?

A God Whose Creation Is So Imperfect That He Must Be Continually Adjusting It To Make It Work Properly Seems To Me A God Of Relatively Low Order, Hardly Worthy Of Any Worship.