Gender and racial discrimination, exploitation and so forth are only effects. The real problem is that it is possible to suppress the people with false Science or false descriptions of the world; that supports Might Is Right. Or like this. We are not genuine citizens.

01 March 2009

We're training students to be obedient

Updated: 28 March 2019

 Professor makes his mark, but it costs him his job, Erin Anderssen, The Globe and Mail

Published February 6, 2009, Updated April 28, 2018

About Denis Rancourt

The article ends.
... the professor is undeterred about those A-pluses: "Grades poison the educational environment," he insists. "We're training students to be obedient, and to try to read our minds, rather than being a catalyst for learning."
Activist Teacher "Articles and commentary about activist teaching and radical pedagogy, and social theory and critique essays, by Dr. Denis G. Rancourt"
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