Word: teachings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reason why the cardholders should not be allowed to teach and why the Communist Party should be disbanded is implicitly found in John Stuart Mill's On Liberty, to which Mr. Wolff has already made reference. This treatise certainly contains the best arguments possible for the necessity of a "free market-place of ideas," as Justice Holmes used the term. Yet if one critically reads this essay, he will find that Mill does not advocate an unqualifiedly free market-place. He states that "as soon as any part of a person's conduct affects prejudicially the interests of others, society...
...read in the CRIMSON today an account of a speech made by President Conant. I see that he has decided that card carrying Communists should be forbidden to teach in "schools," and by this I assume he means colleges and universities as well as public schools. His argument, no doubt, is that by the nature of their affiliation, members of the Communist Party are intellectually dishonest people: that is, they pattern their statements, not after the facts as they see and interpret them, but after a party line the formation of which they do not influence, and the content...
Such an argument would be more than adequate if the sole purpose of a University were to place at the disposal of the students material of varied sorts, presented by a group of intellectually forthright and honest experts whose job it was to interpret and teach this material. This, however, is not the sole purpose of a university, although in recent years it has come to seem...
...choose that one, or combination of them, which is closest to the truth. It is becoming increasingly evident that this belief has all but died, and that a new belief, in truth by indoctrination, has taken its place. The argument has ceased to be--"Will a Communist teacher, teaching communism, contribute to the knowledge of the community?" and has become--"Will a Communist teacher openly teach communism?" If the answer to the latter question in "no," if we can count on a Communist dishonestly teaching a doctrine he does not believe, then it seems he is to be accepted, while...
...thus defend the right, the need, of the Communist teacher to teach in this and other universities, not on the ground that it is his natural or inalienable right to do so, but on the ground that he may have some truth, or near truth, to offer which can not be had elsewhere, and if Dr. Conant will say, before having heard the Communist, that he does not, cannot, have some truth to offer, then I say that he has forfeited his role as protector of free thought and expression in the university and should yield...