HEARINGS BEFORE THE COMMITTEE ON UN-AMERICAN ACTIVITIES
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES EIGHTY-THIRD CONGRESS
FIRST SESSION
JUNE 17 AND 18, 1953
Mr.
Clardy. You say some of the law schools you are acquainted with in New
York have actually dropped the study of constitutional law?
Dr. Dodd. In most places, it was not a compulsory part of the curriculum.
Mr. Clardy. It is compulsory in the school I graduated from at Ann Arbor.
Dr.
Dodd. It wasn't compulsory in the school I went to. You will be
interested in noting the catalogs about ethics, courses on religion,
courses on the Bible ; they have practically been dropped out of the
college curricula. It is a method of despiritualizing the American
people.
Mr. Clardy. A part of the overall movement ?
Dr. Dodd. Yes.
Mr. KuNziG. Why are teachers, above all, so desired by Communists.
Dr.
Dodd. Well, I guess the Communists know that the old people living in
America today are not going to make the revolution. They are not the
people who are going to count. They count on the young people, and those
who control the youth are the people who control the future of this
country.
Mr. Clardy. That is the reasoning that Hitler used, isn't it?
Dr. Dodd. That is the reasoning that any people have who are out to control.
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