Word: teacher
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Torment" is the story of an 18 or 19 year old schoolboy who falls in love with a shopgirl of poor reputation. Their love brings about her regeneration as well as much happiness to them both. Unfortunately, the girl has been having an affair with a sadistic school teacher who has been regularly getting her drunk and subjecting her to the sort of depravities the demented, educated mind dreams up. Between tormenting the girl at night, and the classroom torment he gives the body during the day, the schoolteacher causes one death and one near-ruin among the young couple...
Imposing amounts of evidence were presented by Simpson to illustrate the run down condition of public schools in the Commonwealth. More than 80 pre Civil War buildings and 176 one-teacher schools are still in use in the Massachusetts education system...
...Poet Mark Van Doren: "The issue should not be what a teacher is or believes, but how he teaches ... A Communist who . . . deliberately twists or distorts the truth ... is a bad teacher and should not be kept in his job; but so is a pragmatist, a Christian Scientist, or a Mohammedan who does the same thing...
...Sociologist Robert S. (Middletown) Lynd: "Until the present year I have held the general position that it is unwise to engage a Catholic or a Communist to teach the social sciences ... I believe that a teacher should not teach with a bit in his teeth controlled by any organization able thereby to control what he teaches and omits from his teaching and with a record of exercising such control . . . Today, anti-communism is actively fostered as a blanket political weapon, and pressure is being brought on educational institutions to dismiss uncritically actual or alleged Communists ... I have accordingly changed...
...Columbia College Dean Harry J. Carman: "Any person who is a member of the Communist Party is not free to seek or disseminate the truth . .. The end product of the Communist teacher's work is Communist propaganda...