Word: teachings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...decision to teach, the teacher admits with irony, "was forced on me by the very urgent need to eat." For two embittering years after World War II, Edward Ricardo Braithwaite, sometime R.A.F. fighter pilot, searched for a job. He was a well-qualified physicist with degrees from New York University and graduate experience at Cambridge. But he was also a British Guiana-born Negro, and the London engineering firms to which he applied told him politely that there must have been some mistake: no jobs were available. Then Braithwaite heard that London's schools were desperately short of teachers...
...letter also denied that the loyalty oath abridged the freedom of "heretics" "to voice radical opinions." "Academic freedom," it said, "implies recognition of everyone's right to teach, advocate, and peacefully support his own ideas. Conspiracies to impose an ideology or form of government upon the people by force of arms, violate the academic and personal liberties of every member of society...
Edmund Wilson--critic, historian and novelist--will teach two courses here next year. The first, a full year undergraduate course limited to 100 students, will deal with the literature of the Civil War; the other, a one-term graduate seminar, will investigate the use of language in literature...
...fear and hesitancy in the academic community. This is not to say that professors and others should not take care to support only groups that work for what they believe in. The "loyalty oath" provision, however, must not be allowed to interfere with the right to believe and to teach, freely and honestly...
Spinster, by Sylvia Ashton-Warner. A rage to teach fires some first-rate action about a child-intoxicated woman...