at The New School in 1933 with the experimental composer Henry Cowell, taught at The New School from 1950–1960, including courses such as Experimental Composition and Mycology. Cage's teaching at the school inspired the founding of Fluxus, through his students, including Yoko Ono. Cage was forced out by the Graduate Faculty who did not feel that he was appropriate to their ideal of an academic professor.
==== Motto ====
The New School uses "To the Living Spirit" as its motto. In 1937, Thomas Mann remarked that a plaque bearing the inscription "be the Living Spirit" had been torn down by the Nazis from a building at the University of Heidelberg. He suggested that the University in Exile adopt that inscription as its motto, to indicate that the 'living spirit,' mortally threatened in Europe, would have a home in this country. Alvin Johnson adopted that idea, and the motto continues to guide the division in its present-day endeavors.
==== University in Exile ====
The Graduate Faculty of Political and Social …
