Word: buckleys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Buckley's broadcast is running as a Crime because it manages to advocates, in a compact 15 minutes, most of the bad things that could happen to American education. It calmly calls for student indoctrination, one-sided curricula, and alumni regulation of what a University may teach, all carefully wrapped up as a "responsibility to guide students...
What makes Buckley's broadcast a lot less funny than the proof-reading mistakes or misplaced slug's is that its sponsors claim they have received more than 18,000 requests for reprints. A director of Kalamazoo College has requested copies for the College's Trustees. The "Editorial Director" of the broadcast's sponsoring organization says "Buckley may be leading an educational crusade." If so, he is leading it straight downhill...
SLATER: This is Bill Slater reminding you that it's a good old American custom--and a priceless American privilege--to speak your mind. We have as our guest this week a senior at Yale University who is eminently qualified to speak up for straight-thinking young America. Bill Buckley was on the Yale team that 'won from Oxford the debate on Socialism. He served as Chairman of the "Yale Daily News"--and he has a mind of his own about what is being taught, and what is not being taught, in American colleges. After you hear...
...friends, it's a pleasure to welcome Mr. William Frank Buckley, Jr., a senior at Yale University...
...BUCKLEY: Thank You, Mr. Slater. I do have serious misgivings about present-day trends in American education--because my generation is going to bear the consequences of educational policies which you of the older generation have permitted to go unchallenged--or at least unchanged...