There's still, IMO, a difference in quality of education between face-to-face and online, today.
But it is speculated? Rhoda (wierwille?) did the work for VPW? Not only did he go to low quality, questionably accredited, shadowy schools but he copied off the other kids? . . . Cheating is a habit started early . . .
It's known that, while he was teaching sermons, he was editing the work of other Christians for a periodical- and lifted their work for his sermons. It's known that, while he was teaching pfal, the rambling and material was organized by people like Rhoda, and eventually compiled into books. (As has been said, it's the cheap way for a minister to "write" a book- to have someone transcribe some of your sermons and compile them into a book.) Of course, that pfal material was from Stiles, Bullinger, Kenyon, etc to begin with. The White Book was largely retyped by vpw from Stiles' book on the holy spirit, and later had a few additions from Bullinger, etc. That's why it doesn't sound like vpw, it sounds like Stiles. vpw had a familiarity with this method, he was comfortable with it.
Did he approach his correspondence classes with a sudden honesty, skipping plagiarism and submitting entirely his own work, or did he do what he always did, and rip off others and rely on others to shore up his deficient skills with presentation and phrasing, and so on? No, really, a man who plagiarized, lied, deceived, and had others do the heavy lifting in research AND presentation the rest of the time, would he even consider the more difficult, HONEST way if he had options? Would a leopard change his spots?
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It's known that, while he was teaching sermons, he was editing the work of other Christians for a periodical- and lifted their work for his sermons. It's known that, while he was teaching pfal, the rambling and material was organized by people like Rhoda, and eventually compiled into books. (As has been said, it's the cheap way for a minister to "write" a book- to have someone transcribe some of your sermons and compile them into a book.) Of course, that pfal material was from Stiles, Bullinger, Kenyon, etc to begin with. The White Book was largely retyped by vpw from Stiles' book on the holy spirit, and later had a few additions from Bullinger, etc. That's why it doesn't sound like vpw, it sounds like Stiles. vpw had a familiarity with this method, he was comfortable with it.
Did he approach his correspondence classes with a sudden honesty, skipping plagiarism and submitting entirely his own work, or did he do what he always did, and rip off others and rely on others to shore up his deficient skills with presentation and phrasing, and so on? No, really, a man who plagiarized, lied, deceived, and had others do the heavy lifting in research AND presentation the rest of the time, would he even consider the more difficult, HONEST way if he had options? Would a leopard change his spots?
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