According to The Globe and Mail, Professor Denis Rancourt told his students that they'd all get A+s because it wasn't his job to train them to be "information transfer machines." Prof. Rancourt's bold stance not only got him fired but arrested for trespassing when he came to the University of Ottawa to conduct his documentary film society meeting.
Rancourt has been outspoken against the traditional methods of teaching and grading referring to those tactics as "paternalistic."
According to The Globe and Mail, he stated:
“Grades poison the educational environment. We're training students to be obedient, and to try to read our minds, rather than being a catalyst for learning.”
Not too suprising that a University would back regressive strategies like "grading" to help students learn. Rather than inspiring a desire for education, strategies of self-guided learning, and collective pedagogical community building, the contemporary academy insists on generating the next legion of robots to maintain the status quo.
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