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At 16:33 -0400 4/28/03, Bob LaMontagne wrote:
If all we expect a physics major to be when he or she graduates is a
The number of responses to advertisements for college level physics teaching
positions is overwhelming. It's nice to fill our departments with
students, but
it's somewhat unethical to send great numbers into a saturated market.
professional physicist, then we shouldn't be producing more of them
than the physics research market can absorb. But in fact, a physics
education can be much broader than that, preparing students to work
in many diverse fields, not all of them scientifically oriented. We
just have to decide what we want.