The Hungarian Student, 1958 (3. évfolyam, 1-2. szám)
1958-10-01 / 1. szám
permission. Art institutes will permit reentry only of those students who worked in areas similar to those their studies would require, if they have been avay for more than five years. The above ruling clearly indicates the difficulties the people would have to face, namely those who have come home from prison, concentration camps or from abroad (after illegal leave), in short, mostly the freedom-fighters. Permission to further their studies would depend on results of minute individualistic political examination given not by teachers but by political members of the university the main aim being to prevent these persons from getting into university groups and later in to white collar positions. In the May 1, 1956, issue of the «Hungarian Nation» the article of Paul Kiss, university professor, appears under the following title: «The 190 year old School of Medicine of Budapest, an intellectual cloud-castle of socialist Hungary.» A few paragraphs of interesting statements; «While learning subjects in their own field during six years, the students also receive a Marxist-Leninist education and within its framework they aquire the knowledge of philosophy, political economy and sociology.» . . . «Although the confusion about theories and ideas has cleared up to a great extent in the minds of our university and worker youth, we still have much to accomplish. N. Khruschev’s speech that was held at the M. J. Academy has helped a great deal. Within university faculty circles discussion groups meet monthly. From discussions and arguments conclusions are derived through which our professors can be sufficiently convinced of the superiority of the socialist system even from the viewpoint of university studies. This belief of the professors shall be transmitted and absorbed by their assistants thus forming a faculty with unified conceptions . . . which is a primary condition ... to achieve successful work.» It is obvious that Paul Kiss considers the University of Medicine as primarily a political institution. The task of the teachers is not only to produce good doctors but also good Communists. The autonomy of the University, the autonomy of the individual, freedom of intellectual choice is a thing of the past, something old fashioned. It is not the medical faculty’s responsability to force the students into an intellectual mold. With reference to the aforesaid we might draw a social-psychological and sociographical picture of the Hungarian College and University students as follows: 10
