Word: teacher
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Commission's stand against Communist teachers contravenes the position of the Committee on Academic Freedom and Tenure of the American Association of University Professors. Last year the A.A.U.P. Committee stated, "(A) teacher should be dismissed because of his acts of disloyalty or because of professional unfitness, and not because he is a Communist...
Howard plays a successful violinist who, returning to his home in Sweden from an American concert tour, must find a new accompanist because his old one is about to retire. Who should turn up to fill the post but his little daughter's piano teacher, played by Miss Bergman. Several arpeggios and one bottle of champagne later, the two have fallen deeply in love; a fortunate thing for the audience, but most unfortunate for Howard's wife and two children and Miss Bergman's promising career as a pianist...
President Conant has at last clearly stated his position on the issue of the right of Communists to teach in American schools and colleges. Members of the Communist Party of the United States should not be employed as teachers. Such membership . . . involves adherence to doctrines and discipline completely inconsistent with the principles of freedom on which American education depends. Such membership, and the accompanying surrender of intellectual integrity, render an individual unfit to discharge the duties of a teacher in this country...
...CRIMSON believes that membership in the Communist Party does not automatically "render an individual unfit to discharge the duties of a teacher." First, there is proof that many Communist card-holders are not required to follow the party line. In order to keep many "big names" in the party, the Communists do not demand blind obedience to party policies. Second, even if all Communists surrendered their "intellectual integrity," there are large areas of learning where politics is completely irrelevant. An ardent party-liner in the field of government is one thing--his dogma could well make him incompetent to teach...
...CRIMSON believes that competence along should be the standard for hiring or firing a teacher. A political standard is irrelevant; it is dangerous; it is a repudiation of the traditional American principle that in individual be judged for what he is, and not for what he belongs to. The communist Party is still a legal organization...