I take special delight in adding my voice to all those who wish to thank Professor the Honourable Errol Miller for his many years of service to the cause of education, and particularly for his UWI years of national, regional, and international achievement and recognition.

I agree with Neville Ying about the significance of computer technol­ogy. But then I said to Sir Roy Augier, I take it all this is predicated on people being able to read and write. And then Dr. Ying came up with the wonderful technical phrase of numeracy and literacy, and we had to retreat. I was tempted at first to say something about what my colleague Errol Miller has been identified with-gender. Yet I cannot resist re­marking how interesting it is that we mere men, our mothers' sons, are the people who are now talking a great deal about "gender imbalance".