On a Certain Blindness in Physicists Available to Purchase

Shortages in people interested in science begin at the elementary level and continue at the secondary level for two fundamental reasons: inadequate teacher preparation and inadequate organization of curriculum materials. Solutions to the problem of shortages are being sought by physicists in the same tradition which has prevailed for the last fifty years, ignoring completely the changed high school conditions with which they must deal. Suggestions as to the lines of a possible solution other than the traditional one are indicated.