do no harm:


idit dobb-weinstein: "teaching is action and thinking at once. What I try to guard against most when I teach is not speaking as if my answer were conclusive, so as to avoid (to the extent possible) any kind of dogmatic appropriation. It is understandable why students might wish to imitate their teachers, but there are different modes of imitation. I try very hard to avoid the mimetic appropriation that is immediate, passive, and occludes thinking. One other reason is that if I made clear what my views were, and my views appeared as if they were final, it would preclude the possibility of first, students challenging me and second, learning from my students. The relation between the student and teacher is, to me, a dynamic relationship . . . Teaching and learning is a movement that occurs between. In other words, we are at once both agent and patient, both teacher and learner. If we are not very careful, we can do a great deal of harm. And that, too, I have learned from my teachers, Maimonides especially.

I believe my task is to provoke students to think and to engage them in genuine dialogue and questioning. To paraphrase a rabbinic saying, 'I have learned from my teachers, and I have learned from my peers, but I have learned most from my students.' And that is a continuous process of learning."

Wednesday 7 April 2010

getting some support from fellow students!!!!
LACC IP club founder says please speak slowly.

now he finally gets what i am saying about embedding video in the blog.

i told him we can do the same for the IP club if we could get to an unblocked signal.
why does LACC hate tech so much?
FISA.
no that's not it.
its so easy.
i wish i could broadcast duffy, he's so great!!!!  in property law---back to my class notes---here
http://duffysrealestatelacc.blogspot.com/

making mp3s

got a little testy over the concern for my safety leaving lawyers guild last night.
i was like yes, i have been raped, strangled, car-jacked, robbed.
no big deal.
read about it here:
http://rapeisneverokay.blogspot.com/
the poverty/environmentalism which sees my tough self home by bus or train, means i feel sorry for the car people.
that they have to be so condescending, when actually i feel sorry for them, that they never get any exercise, and are scared to walk to the bus stop.

i don't really believe in real this or real that.
i'm totally facetious as usual lol!
but if you want to read about the real LACC
read here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles_City_College
its wiki-real!
open to change and wiki-nerd modification.
i'm a blogger nerd not a wiki nerd.

oh and my friend is dropping his class with the majorly sexist law prof.  he can't take it anymore.
why?
why does the prof have a job?
why does he terrorize innocent minds?
why does admin protect it and not demand more?

i want interviews explaining things.

dan diamond says i need to go the school board or sacramento or something.  i already did, but need to again, because the icing on the cake keeps getting thicker.  the belligerent stream of cruelty is irrevocable.  it poisons the experience.
it gives me anxiety.
it also makes me laugh it is so absurd.

thinking of shelley's writing the necessity of atheism and getting kicked out of oxford in consequence, and his young death.
funny that writing can be so dangerous.
but is it?
i think of blogs as ghettos for the disenfranchised educationally.
if i'd gotten a stupid PHD by now i could have had one of those cush do-nothing jobs, at least at LACC or utah state or somewhere boring.
and have a little money, and drink coffee, and go to school to call kids a bunch of epithets my racist sexist parents/teachers taught me.
and get paid for it.
get the school sued for it.
piss off a bunch of people.
reinforce the status quo.
go way hoi polloi.
make them laugh like LACC is the comedy store and i'm michael richards.
yeah.

hey but wait a minute, my parents were enlightened people . . . and i don't watch TV . . . and when lame hipsters try to rub their creepy sexist language off on me, i tell them to never call me again.
i really mean it.
i am so over all this creepiness.

except i'm bought off by hope for a degree, a good class, a crystal of information, a shred of respect, a discussion, a learning experience, a job, a future, a pell grant, a loan.

ready for a mountain.
and can't wait for class tomorrow.
class sometimes makes my head feel amazingly sparkly.
it was so funny one day when bartelt said "speak english woman!" when i said double entendre.
what a laugh.
new resolution, to try to write like i think.
and if that means some nonsense or latin or french or whatever so be it.
it will be wonderful
just wish i knew hebrew and arabic.

i love the internet.
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