Word: teacher
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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President Strand, who had explained nothing about La Vallee, now considered the case closed. Actually, so far as Oregon State was concerned, it might be. All question of the Spitzer and La Vallee cases apart, U.S. citizens could understand the right of a university administrator to fire a teacher for professional incompetence. Did Communist Party membership lead to that kind of incompetence-by imposing a party line where there should be freedom to inquire? That was a big issue in the Washington case. Now, it seemed, U.S. public opinion, which had never decided for sure what academic freedom consisted...
...Could a teacher be "free" if he belonged to a group that dictated what he should think? Certainly not, was Hook's fast answer. Did the Communist Party dictate that way? Said Hook: look...
...most part the graduate schools are to blame, Carman believes. They have apparently decided that all a teacher needs to get along on a college faculty is "knowledge of the subject and ability to do research . . . The university graduate who is awarded his Ph.D. is recommended for college teaching on his promise as a scholar" -not on his promise as a teacher...
Earl James McGrath is one educator who would rather be an administrator than a teacher ("I like to make the wheels go 'round"). In his 46 years he has turned a lot of wheels, held many titles. He has been a dean at the State University of Iowa, wartime head (lieutenant commander) of the Bureau of Naval Personnel's educational services section, and part-time University of Chicago professor. Last week, subject to the advice and consent of the U.S. Senate, Harry Truman gave him his biggest title yet: U.S. Commissioner of Education...
...married life to see if it has been such a failure as to force her husband to leave her. The best episode is the one involving Ann Southern and Kirk Doughlas. In it, Mankiewiez, through Douglas, makes a keen and cogent attack on the social status of the school teacher in America and on the candy-coated moralities daily gushing forth from the radio. Nothing is said, or shown, on these subjects, or any other in the film, that must not have occurred to any thoughtful person, but it is vicariously satisfying to hear them from the silver screen...