I've sat on a number of math hiring committees and have been repeatedly impressed by the inability of highly educated mathematicians to teach their way out of a paper bag. I can remember one committee which tasked all candidates to teach a twenty minute lesson on a limit in calculus. The only one that made any sense began with "Imagine an apple pie in an oven. . ." He got the job.

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