The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-31
The Teachers Case
By JOSEPH KALAR.

Teachers are in absolute swinish slavery Their per
sonates, and personality the keynote of successful
teaching, ignored by the politicians who formulate
the educational CODE A teacher is machine, curiou
and humorous mechanical contrivance to enighten tn
pupils in mathematics reading writing, geography, ant
the like. That he be able to perform his duties in
mechanical way is the first requisite but God help hin
if he attempts to use his head! God help him i
he tries to do any real cultural work. work Of rea
significance He is only machine, an automaton-
and must perform such, and if he steps outside o.
his immediate duties he is dealt with as we deal will
rusty machine, he is oiled back into shape, the oil il
this case being threats.
In the first place teachers are not chosen for the
real innate intelligence for their personalities for the
ability to teach Normal School Training is the mil
from which all perfect teachers come! County Super
intendent of Schools in Minnesota sent form letter t
all of her dutiful slaves in which, among other things
she sad II had to get rid of the best teacher had
the county because she didn't have the proper training
ii. the proper scrap of paper)," Get that The bes
teacher she had! And what is this wonderful norma
school training that will convert the most of OLE
maids into perfect teacher? High talk about eye
span curves poetry study (no wonder all school children
hate poetryD technique, observation-stuff that hal
actual relation to teaching than Cal Coolidge
has to intelligence In other words teacher that wouC
brighten and revolt any child by the severity of he
physiognomy, a teacher that looks upon children al
brats and very unruy brats is yet hundred per
cent teacher because she has mastered CD the purely
mechanical aspects of education.
After graduating from a normal school a teacher il
castrated of all original intelligence all personality al
humanity He is machine.
In normal school he is forced to attend period SCI
aside for chapel. During this period he must join his
voice with the rest in singing HOLY HOLY, HOLY
and must sit mute and submissive through TRADE Of
pous vomit from some heavenly reverend.
The scrap of paper he receives graduation presum
ably fits him for the arduous moulding of the brats
his charge into his own image And what is this image!
Let M Guest.
dge the Stars and Stripes the close relationship be-
tween the president of the U. S. A. and God white
supremacy, antred, Longfellow the Saturday Evening
Postthat is the image in which, Worker your chile
shall be moulded.
His slavery, upon beginning teach, is apparent
everyone except himself He is told what to teach
how to live how not to live what to read what to be-
eve, what church is especially ordained by Cod Fol
instance if teacher rash to tell his pupil;
that the World War hardly fought for democrac!
and that the Germans not rapers of crippled chill
dren he would go the mat. Not long ago during
National Education Week he even told to tell his
pupils all about the Red Menace (captalistc defnition
the Communist threat to religion, morals, ETC.. That
was National Education Week!
very good friend of mine, possibly the only ntell
gent teacher have yet met, indiscreet a.
to read part of SMOKE and STEEL by Carl Sandbure
to his pupils. Almost Immediately colossal caricaturt
of rushed to the board and told them that hi
reading indecent literature She read an extract
that presumably cinched her argument and then sale
There is lot dirty stuff here but couldn't
it before all you men!!r
We have the Anti Evolution Bills. Science is hated
word among the putocrats that control the educational
system. New discoveries in the spiritual" line of sci
usually taught century after they have be
property to everyone. In certain rura
communities teacher has to teach Sunday School ant
most of them are glad to)-or get out.
All of the history she teaches is subtle propaganda
for and class hatred Many pupils, upon gradual
ffrI
revulsion for the English people. Many of them have
never a real Englishman, and yet they have thai
prejudice.
The teachers are expected to teach that the Bolshe
viks to civilization, that they aiming
to destroy the very foundations of our government
Very well. But the teachers not permitted 81
into any detail concerning this chimerca foundation
government because if they did, the pupils would
welcome the Red Menace!
teacher is not rated according to ability or ntel
gence There are those poor ptied teachers who pos
sess only second grade certificate there is the middle
class, those possessing first grade certificate ant
the elite the professional first class have known
teacher who had only limited Second Grade Cor Class
certificate, and yet she perfect if over in
teligent, teacher. have known another that belongs
to the elite, and he is worthless Yet the former re
ceives $40 month and the latter about $3.50.
When such importance is placed on a mere scrap o.
paper is it any wonder that our children grow up int
Rabbits into lynchers of the l. w. w. burners of Ne
groes, staunch uphoders of the very class that exploits
and brutalizes them?
The very irony of it is that very few teachers care
teach evolution know anything about it, very few
teachers are class conscious intelligent But wha
can you expect? To be able to teach they had e
through the whole educational cesspoo and very few
people able to get through the cesspoo without re
tanning little of the odor By the time they had the
scrap of that them legal rights to teach they
had become willing, unconscious slaves of the politicians
who run the educational system