Gord i read this today and thought of you, even though you're a Canuck
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/dec/24/the-difficulty-is-the-point-teaching-spoon-fed-students-how-to-really-read
figured i would just point out my favourite quotes from this article so you can suss out the general argument:
(I can attest to that one above!)
and maybe one of my faves:
happy [insert your favourite nondiscriminatory holiday word here]!