Fascism does not even try to temperize with its brutality. It is explicit in its racist and anti-democratic program. As long as a Communist or fascist teacher conforms to the standards which his profession has set up in his field, he should e allowed to teach, and his rights must be defended even by those who are against everything he stands for politically. The only group in society which is competent to decide whether or not a teacher is conforming to professional standards and other members of his profession as represented by the faculty of which he is a member. And certainly the American teaching profession has a conception of standards which includes opposition to turning the classroom into a pace for indoctrination pure and simple .
Indoctrination is, after all, something which can be recognized.
If a man stiffles all discussion, refuses to present any opinion other than his own, will not assign any books other than those with his own point of view, then he is not a fit teacher. But the reason for this is not that he is a fascist or Communist. It is that his fascist or Communist politics have actually intruded into the classroom so that he is unable to live up to the standards of his profession. He would not be fired because he was a Protestant or a Catholic or a Jew, but rather because he was an incompetent teacher. The faculty would not judge his theology, but his conduct in the classroom.