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Last spring, a faculty committee met to revise a language requirement generally considered obsolete. But instead of making changes to bring the standards more into line with the recommendations of language department experts, the committee established criteria that are even more arbitrary and less realistic than the ones they replaced...
...perpetuate their cult, the Educationists have drowned their schools in "oceans of piffle." They spend hours on such research projects as a "Tabular Summary of Frequency of Mention of Correlation Between Aspects of Teachers or Teaching and Certain Criteria of Teaching Success." They give courses in everything from "Administering the Use of Audio-Visual Materials" to "Dance s193C -Social Dance...
...real web of conspiracy and intrigue [in] U.S. Government departments, in almost all cases, were cradled in our distinguished universities and colleges . . . Communist teachers exercise, as part of an organized conspiracy, an influence far more extensive than their numbers would indicate ... It falls upon the educators themselves to devise criteria and methods to deal with teachers whose adherence to the Communist conspiracy, though not legally provable, makes them morally unfit to teach." As for the teacher who takes refuge behind the 5th Amendment, he "violates his trust and forfeits his right to shape the character of our youth...
Vercors' own conclusion is that while all such criteria are technically important, what really matters is "that no one is a human being by a right of nature . . . What we call human is defined by us alone." Man can become man only when human society recognizes him as such...
...avert further misunderstanding by making clear why the soldiers are questionable cases. A full report on each soldier will wipe out the harmful speculation, and clear the innocent of this insult of their integrity. Especially in the case of these prisoners, facts, not guesswork, should be the criteria for accusation...