Comments on: One public school education against God

By: Jim Corbett

Jim Corbett — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 05:03:53 +0000

Ph.D. The Ohio State University, a diploma mill with 60,000 students. I’m ashamed to have graduated from such a poorly known institution.

By: Hube

Hube — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 18:39:12 +0000

IEL. Bookworm is 100% correct. There is NO excuse for using insults the way Corbett did in order to “get students to think.” If you can’t see that, all I can say is thank God you’re not teaching. (I hope!)

Teachers that feel they must operate this way are either, as BW said, a bully, or totally insecure, and least of all, lousy instructors.

By: IEL

IEL — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 13:16:53 +0000

Perhaps a sign of lower education standards are the advent of testing such as AP tests.

Student touched on this but look at how tactiful teacher claims to be a good teacher as he/she teachers directly towards the test. I could make this argument but there is tons of anti-testing (anti-NCLB) material written better and argued better by more knowledgeable people.

By: Bookworm

Bookworm — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 04:26:43 +0000

IEL — it’s perhaps a sign of how low educational standards have sunk that you actually believe that for Dr. Corbett to insult people is the same as teaching rational debate and allowing students to learn how to defend their positions. The man is manifestly a bully, and not a very smart one at that. Those students who agree with him or those few who are secure enough to challenge him will talk, but no one will learn in a class run by someone who makes the types of statements on record. Those are not the statements of an educated, open-minded, intelligent person — and everything else he may do or so is tainted by association with that type of mental effluvia.

By: IEL

IEL — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 03:54:24 +0000

Thank you for proving my point Hube.
You guys are making judgments without facts. As I understand from comments of students who took the class, Dr. Corbett taught the students how to back up their claims by using facts. Some of us here could maybe learn something from his class.

By: Hube

Hube — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 00:52:07 +0000

And some PhDs get their degrees at diploma mills. So?

By: IEL

IEL — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 00:21:14 +0000

Some PhD’s choose to spend the last years of their career teaching high school.

By: Hube

Hube — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 13:05:53 +0000

KRC: There is NO defense for Corbett’s comments. You only defend them b/c you AGREE with him. Nevertheless, they are WAY out of line and totally inappropriate for not only the topic of the class, but ANY class. One can only imagine your reaction if Corbett used the same vigor to speak favorably of Christianity.

What’s pathetic is that he somehow feels so “intellectually superior” by spouting off to a bunch of HS kids. Whooooaaaaa. A PhD with 19 yrs. teaching experience vs. HS juniors and seniors. What a “tough” guy. His “arguments” that were available to the public (crime rates/religion) were so ridiculous that it’s probably no WONDER he remains in HS despite his PhD.

By: IEL

IEL — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 23:21:59 +0000

“The lawsuit contends, among other things, that Corbett [...] compared Christians to “Muslim fundamentalists””

Oh no! How dare you say Christians are evil like Muslims?

Corbett is undoing the 10 years of Pro-Christian education in student’s previous education and maybe even teaching the students to be critical of what they are told.

By: IEL

IEL — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 23:17:29 +0000

“If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen”