Word: teachings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mere fact of membership in an organization should bar no teacher from his job. Membership in leftist groups does not affect a man's competence as a teacher. In some cases even a card-carrying Communist might be perfectly competent to teach his subject, and so long as this possibility exists, general proscriptions are wrong. Professional competence and professional competence only should be the criterion for the hiring and firing of teachers...
...controversy. During the Spring of 1949 Tenney had submitted five loyalty oath bills to the California legislature. These and twelve other pieces of similar legislation were the products of Senator Tenney's state committee on un-American activities. Among other things, they would have made it a misdemeanor "to teach any system or plan of government except the American system upon any state school property or to inculcate preference in the mind of any pupil for any such system...
Pierre Emmanuel, French poet, was last year refused an entry visa to the United States to teach at Wellesley College...
...report is believed to say that, in a strict sense, Boldgett's right to teach as he wished was not infringed upon...
After graduation, Adams went to teach school at Worcester, a "place of torment" where nobody had any ideas and everybody voiced them vigorously. At Worcester, John gave up his father's notion that he should be a minister and began reading law. Two years later he was sworn to the bar and took up practice in Braintree...