Word: teachings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Communist teachers exercise, as part of an organized conspiracy, an influence far more extensive than their numbers would indicate ... It falls upon the educators themselves to devise criteria and methods to deal with teachers whose adherence to the Communist conspiracy, though not legally provable, makes them morally unfit to teach." As for the teacher who takes refuge behind the 5th Amendment, he "violates his trust and forfeits his right to shape the character of our youth...
...just as lively as ever, a leathery, vigorous extrovert who likes nothing better than tilting at established institutions. He expects to have the time of his life in Salzburg with his 40 students. During his month-long course, financed by the provincial government, he has no intention of teaching his pupils how to paint in any classroom course. Says Kokoschka: "I will teach them how to see again. This is a faculty lost to modern society...
Wisely, Artist Houston has not tried to teach the Eskimos the kabloona's styles. Says Houston: "The Eskimo carves the way he feels he should carve, and he doesn't feel inferior simply because his work doesn't conform with accepted standards." So far, Houston has brought back nearly 30,000 tiny works from the Far North; the guild sells them at prices ranging from 50? to $200, and the demand in the trade is greater than the supply. Edinburgh and Paris have both asked for the London exhibit, and there are plans for U.S. exhibits later...
...teach democracy to postwar Germans, the United States Information Service set up 40 Amerika Häuser and stocked them with a wide selection of reading material in English and German, including books banned by Hitler. Last year some 15 million Germans flocked to the U.S. libraries, and the then U.S. High Commissioner, John J. McCloy, praised the scheme for counteracting twelve years of "one-sided information...
...days after that, Stout summoned Richardson to his office, told him that he had been hired to teach biology, that he should "mind your own business and stop being a buttinsky all over the campus." Richardson, still convinced that it is a professor's business to be concerned about educational philosophy, went right on discussing the matter with his colleagues. To President Stout, such talk amounted to a "vicious conspiracy." Last March he ordered Richardson and four other like-minded professors to show cause before the board of regents why they should not be fired...