Word: teaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Columbia University's undergraduate newspaper, the Daily Spectator, invited a few distinguished professors to express themselves on a pressing matter of the day: Should the Communist Party be outlawed and should Communist teachers be allowed to teach in U.S. colleges? Last week the Spectator published their answers. None seemed to want to outlaw the party; three out of four were against any categorical ban on teachers. Reasons...
Although, with the new wording, the instructor himself would be responsible for "communist teachings" and schools would no longer be liable to loss of their tax exemptions, the purpose and result of the measure remain the same. The important point is that the state would have the power to say who would teach and what should be taught in private educational institutions. A sleuth in a classroom is a threat to academic freedom whether he is compiling "evidence" against a school or an individual professor...
Frye Will Teach...
...program to educate adults-a 19-lesson course, with films, lectures and discussion groups. It meets for two hours twice a week, covers every field of postwar reform from taxes and public health to trade unionism and the new constitution. Given in seventh-grade language, it is designed to teach 30 million adults, in the next five years, "the principles of democracy which everyone can understand...
...greatest achievements was to teach Puerto Ricans the true value of the ballot. Against the then-common practice of vote-selling, Muñoz used an argument compounded of pity and scorn: "If you want to sell your vote for $2, all right. I don't blame you. I know $2 is worth something. But if you don't sell your vote, you can use it to get justice for your family. So remember: justice or $2. But you can't have both...