Bryan Fischer spent a large portion of his radio program today hailing the effectiveness of spanking as a biblically-approved form of discipline and cackling as he recounted how he and his wife used a wooden spoon to spank their own children on their bare bottoms because “the bottom is just designed by God for that.”

Eventually, Fischer got around to calling for the use of corporal punishment in public schools, saying failure to allow teachers to physically discipline children is why there are so many behavioral problems in school and why children today are getting such a poor education.

“I want to tell you,” Fischer said, “we are not going to have a functional education system where kids are actually learning, you’re not going to have an environment conducive to learning until we bring corporal discipline back into our elementary schools, into our public schools. That is the only way you’re going to be able to maintain the kind of environment in a class room where kids can actually learn something”: