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 5 May 2010

bathroom stall grafitti porn at LACC at holmes hall

(video of LACC bathroom coming soon)

the budget crisis has hit the schools hard.  california!
Los Angeles City College is literally falling apart at the seams.
no toilet paper.  professors with potty-mouth syndrome.
an ASO run like a jerry springer show.
summer college up in smoke.
no money for anything.
why the LACC has to cut janitorial services and toilet paper is uncertain . . . .
what creep would draw an anatomical cartoon in the bathroom and write "suck it bitch" on the door inside the stall?
someone cleverly changed it to "sock it, pitcher." someone also carefully erased someone's editorial comments that this was "misogynist BS."
i think this constitutes harassment.
i will be sending links to cristy passman.
i wonder if she likes to look at cartoon's of huge male anatomy when she goes to the bathroom.
i wonder if as ombudsman for discrimination and harassment she considers it harassment.
she would probably say it depends on the context.
i wonder if she likes toilet paper or no toilet paper.
personally, dear Los Angeles City College, i want toilet paper and only clean, non-insulting graffiti of artistic merit.
i wonder if i should tell ASO about the toilet paper crisis at LACC.
but they already know the school can't afford paper to print a syllabus.

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