Many people offer advice about education--and, in particular, about mathematics education. I'm skeptical of general pronouncements because my encounters with learning (as student or teacher or parent) have been singular: one mind meeting another mind for a period of exchange. Here's a poem that recalls four of my teachers, three of them teachers of mathematics.
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Girls and Mathematics
In Indiana, Pennsylvania, my senior high school advanced math teacher was Laura Church--a Barnard College graduate and a flamboyant silver-haired woman who never let any of us suppose that girls could not do mathematics. In college my science scholarship kept me from fleeing mathematics to study literature when I was the only girl in my classes.
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