Word: teachers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sarah Lawrence girls in particular questioned the value of having many "great scholars" on the teaching faculty. "It is not always the great scholar who makes the great teacher," Miss Deborah L. Day, Sarah Lawrence '59, observed...
...such freedom may be destroyed by the myopic teacher who will not discuss the great issues of the day because he does not know what they are. The vitality of the medieval university was thus destroyed when scholasticism lost touch with reality. So also, the renaissance university became decadent when, in the eighteenth century, the classics stopped being exciting and became merely edifying. In both cases, academic freedom was subverted from within, as the interior logic of the 'discipline' replaced the experience of the scholar as the final arbiter of truth...
...inevitable outcome of this dependent relationship is a growing antagonism toward the U.S. Foreign Minister Victor Andrade, onetime Ambassador to Washington and Manhattan teacher, complains that U.S. aid is niggling and adds: "I think the whole trouble is the U.S. was forced to take a leading role in the world before it was really ready. Your people need some preventive education before going abroad...
...hate him. We had a very close relationship, but how could I know he was going to turn into an Emperor Jones?" There are some mocking ditties to the effect that he takes himself too seriously. There is the blues of his first wife Marguerite, a former school teacher in Manhattan, who says: "I remember when he used to speak about not being hired because he was a Negro. Now his secretary in New York is white...
Hash &. Eggs. Harry and his wife moved into a tiny $55-a-month apartment in Harlem with Marguerite's mother, lived for the first few months on Marguerite's salary as a teacher at Bethany Day Nursery. Marguerite remembers Harry in those days-the subway-riding days -as "a big, playful animal." A friend. Painter Matthew Feinman, remembers that he was seething with racial feeling. The two of them played chess, and when they were arranging the chessmen, Harry used to say: "I'm taking the black ones, man, because they're better than the white...