Professor Norman Cornett: "Since When Do We Divorce the Right Answer From an Honest Answer?"
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Alanis Obomsawin
Alison Burns
Ravida Din
Martin Duckworth
Adam Symansky
Robert Verrall
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After exam pressure pushed one of his students to a meltdown, McGill University professor Dr Norman Cornett drastically reinvented his teaching methodology to banish fear and awaken the joy of learning. Fuelled by a love of teaching, he trains his students to find their own intellectual and moral compasses using dialogue, mandatory field trips and stream-of-consciousness journals. Cornett's disdain for conventional course structure and his improvisational attitude towards administration make him a misfit at McGill, but when the university abruptly terminates his contract after 15 years, he is devastated.
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Alanis Obomsawin
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Released in United States 2009
Shown at Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Film Festival (Outstanding Achievement Award Retrospective) April 30-May 10, 2009.
