Comments on: Classroom Etiquette — Or Lack Thereof! http://biblical-studies.ca/blog/2007/04/26/classroom-etiquette-or-lack-thereof/ My musings on Biblical Studies, Biblical Hebrew, Dead Sea Scrolls, Septuagint, Popular Culture, Religion, Software, and pretty much anything else that interests me! Wed, 17 Apr 2013 10:50:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: slaveofone http://biblical-studies.ca/blog/2007/04/26/classroom-etiquette-or-lack-thereof/comment-page-1/#comment-125813 slaveofone Fri, 27 Apr 2007 23:02:22 +0000 http://biblical-studies.ca/blog/wp/2007/04/26/classroom-etiquette-or-lack-thereof/#comment-125813 What do you think about those [ahem] who hold their teachers critically and honestly responsible for their teaching and discussion?

For instance, I was taking online courses at bible.org on canonicity, Trinitarianism, and several other things. And I found that at least part of the time, the teachers would say things that were either fudging the evidence or being just outright dishonest (such as making an argument against canonicity of a Deuterocanonical book when the same argument could also be applied to a Canonical one, or arguing for the deity of Yeshua from texts which, according to their own bibles (NET Bible) are highly corrupt passages, or building criteria against a bad theology and then supporting Trinitarianism when it met many of those same requirements).

I was almost kicked out several times for it, but I took them to task for their misleading teaching. And rest be assured, if you’re not forthright, I’ll speak up in your class too…

]]> By: Donloree Hoffman http://biblical-studies.ca/blog/2007/04/26/classroom-etiquette-or-lack-thereof/comment-page-1/#comment-125624 Donloree Hoffman Fri, 27 Apr 2007 18:08:18 +0000 http://biblical-studies.ca/blog/wp/2007/04/26/classroom-etiquette-or-lack-thereof/#comment-125624 Oh man! I think besides the students that liked to talk just to hear their own voice, it was the pencil tapping. In one of the classes I had with you, there was a pencil tapper. EVERY single class, for 45 minutes straight – tappity, tap, tap, TAP! I remember one day very distinctly….I was unable to refrain from glaring at this person intermittedly until they stopped. I felt like a grouchy woman, but if I didn’t do something I was going to lose my mind. Nor did I think it was appropriate to stand up in the middle of your class and yell, “For the love of everything that is good in this world, STOP TAPPING!!” I thought it would have been a tad disruptive…

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