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Message: [QUOTE="SVCBeercats, post: 2974528, member: 7874"] BINGO!!!! We have a winner! However, it is my friend who was the wunderbar 7th & 8th grade math teacher. Our education system needs fewer Mr. Cantwell's and more BroadwayVas and TWs (my friend). I sporaticaly taught peers and customers in industry and a few years at the college level as an adjunct. Not the same as having a real impact with youth. But the few times I connected it was more rewarding than successfully completing a large project or sale. Just the look in their eyes was great. I have envied teachers such as yourself. But when I talked to them ... yikes! ... the politics and interaction with the administration seemed far worse than I ever experienced in industry. I hired an employee who had BA, MSs, and two PhDs who left industry to teach full time at a very respected university. I asked why are you returning to industry. I heard you disliked corporate politics. She simply responded "It is much worse in academia." Their loss our gain. Get a group of people together and before long you will have them in competition and disagreement and lumping together into factions ... you know like the Boneyard. [B]Just kidding!!![/B] Applied math: We wanted to update all of our bathrooms. We were referenced to the "best tiler in the city." Always too careful, we just had him tile the floor in a small first floor bathroom. As he began his work; I looked over the guy's shoulder to see he had sketched the entire floor on tablet with the measurements applied. He was calculating all of the angles and arcs required before touching a tile. I knew we had a winner. We had him updated all the other baths. Other tradesmen would just run their hands over his work peering at his very fine grout work. I would ask them Tradesman or craftsman? They all said "CRAFTSMAN" usually followed by artist. Someone taught our tiler the importance of math particularly in his craft. Math can be art. Thanks to teaches such as yourself. [/QUOTE]

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