Word: muchnick
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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John Ciardi, Briggs-Copeland assistant professor of English Composition, and Theodore Brameld, professor of educational philosophy at New York University, disagreed with Ralph W. Sullivan, author of last year's controversial bill to remove tax exemption privileges from schools employing Communist teachers, and Isadore H. Y. Muchnick'28, formerly on the Boston City Council and at present a member of the city's School Board. The Forum was moderated by Francis Keppel'38, Dean of the Faculty of Education...
Speaking first, Muchnick asserted that "avowed or proven" members of the Communist Party should be prohibited from teaching in American schools. Drawing an analogy between moral corruption and the beliefs of the Communist Party, Muchnick said it was the duty of American legislators to defend the nation's youth against what he termed the "political immorality" of those who advocate the revolutionary overthrow of the government...
Ciardi, speaking next, answered Muchnick by denying the need or advisability of laws barring Communists from faculties, and said that such legislation would place a restriction on "the basic principle of the educational process--a mind free to observe data without outside influence...
...quartet of speakers at the meeting will include: John Ciardi, Briggs-Copeland Assistant Professor of English Composition; Ralph W. Sullivan author of a bill, defeated last spring, to exclude Communists from Massachusetts schools and colleges; Theodore Brameld professor of educational philosophy at New York University; and Isadore H. Y. Muchnick '28, a member of the Boston School Board. The program will be moderated by Francis Keppel '38 Dean of the Faculty of Education...
...last year's elections, is a vigorous exponent of complete academic freedom and is opposed to any system that would require political qualification for teachers or professors. Sullivan asserts the opposite principle that the state is justified in excluding know Communists from teaching in its schools. Brameld and Muchnick are expected to take stands somewhere between the order two speakers...