Myself, I’d never go so far as say “You all get A’s.” This guy did.
“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.”
via globeandmail.com: Professor makes his mark, but it costs him his job.
My attitude is that every student starts with an A and then slowly gives up points by being students instead of learners.
But I’m that kinda guy.
Hat tip to D’Arcy Norman.
February 10th, 2009 at 2:09 pm
I think this goes along the lines of what we have been talking about with uniform classrooms and students not having interchangalble parts. This educator didn’t worry about the final letter grade but rather if students were engaging and learning. He was cracking the foundation of what the university thought a classroom should be. I remember an email from you last semester commenting that we are worried about a letter grade and being a studnet rather than worried about learning. I thik we are use to how we were taught and that we should be a certain way. It is going to be recognizing we are in a different era of communication and learning.