A complex process
Completely agree with this analysis. Education is not a process of joys and happiness alone. The mind develops not only through the accumulation of knowledge (all knowledge), but through the development of the ability to think, analyze, debate, be confronted with what is unfamiliar and to understand that not to agree is not an anomaly. It is a serious mistake for education and society to always put feeling as a primary value. Emotion is seldom the bearer of sound decisions. But, after all, young people will be able to content themselves with their Facebook, Twitter, TikTok diplomas and so on.
Julien houle
Difficult dialogue
I am at odds with my 40 year old daughter. She’s woke. Our relationship suffers. We can no longer speak, for God’s sake!
Jean-Guy Marmen
Endorse the sensitivities
Where there is a problem is when management gets involved by giving value to each other’s sensitivities.
André Brunelle, retired teacher
“Seek the truth and not receive it ready-made”
I think like Ferdinand Buisson, secular educator, quoted by President Emmanuel Macron during a tribute to Samuel Paty, beheaded in France by an Islamist: “We must take the human being, however small and humble he may be, and give him the idea that he can think for himself, that he owes neither faith nor obedience to anyone, that it is for him to seek the truth and not to receive it ready-made from a master, a director, of a leader whatever it is temporal or spiritual ”. In my opinion, that’s right thinking!
Hugues Beauregard
Teach doubt
What must be taught above all is doubt. To judge a work, we must also take into account the time when it was created, but this requires knowledge of this past. Ignorance is at the origin of these abuses.
Jeanne Baillargeon
A fair film
I loved this movie, which is so closely related to what’s going on in college. I endorse M’s wordsme Suzanne Chartrand. It would take more courageous people like her to speak out against these situations. Tell us about the next report of the committee on censorship chaired by Alexandre Cloutier. I would like to read the analysis of Professor Yves Gingras, specialist in the history of universities who wrote a very good article in the last issue of the journal Argument which was devoted to the university.
Robert Comeau, former professor at UQAM
It does not date from yesterday
And it does not date from yesterday! In 2001, I gave a course in adult education: Introduction to the sociology of Quebec. They refused that I give the nine hours on the period of the Quiet Revolution on the pretext that the fact of presenting the secularization of our society could offend the believing students. No matter how hard I tried to explain that this course could not be relevant without addressing the Quiet Revolution, nothing helped. I gave in to management, but gave my students another lesson plan and broached the subject anyway! I dare not imagine today!
Sophie blain
From elementary school
It doesn’t just happen at the university, college or high school level. It starts in elementary school, yes! Children and their parents must be liked at all costs, in fact at all costs. You should survey elementary school staff.
Francine St-Denis, retired from education and happy to be so
Improve without denying history
I agree with this point of view, because I find this trend revolting, this approach of the so-called defenders of the rights of all these people, supposedly in the minority, harassed, disadvantaged, discriminated against, marginalized, etc. Everything is a pretext to challenge, complain, claim, be seen in the public square. There will always be room for improvement, but history should not be denied or denied. We must learn from it to do better.
Claude Ménard, Laval
When the system allows ignorance
For at least two generations, schools, colleges and universities have become cafeterias where the customer chooses what he wants on the display and places it on his individual tray. This customer can complain about anything, even what they don’t want, including odors, presentation, personnel, labeling, food and health requirements, etc.
Previously, a diploma guaranteed competence based on the common core of a course or profession. This will no longer be the case in two generations. In the near future, we will have professions and diplomas based on ideology, charlatanism, rectitude, the flavor of the month, and so on.
It is a paradox when the education system allows ignorance and narrow-mindedness. No one is more dangerous than the ignorant one who thinks he knows everything.
It started more than 40 years ago, when in elementary school some parents were already asking for grade revisions so that the child could have access to an enriched program or other. It hasn’t changed except that it got worse.
Gaston M. Côté