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."

Monday, 26 July 2010

LACC as a beautiful memory . . . sort of

the ghost of kurt kobain's journals told me as i was sketching to tell you keith fink was courtney love's lawyer in the guitar hero activision goo-gaa.

that's so cool!

and wow---he is a defender of los angeles city college student's right to blog.

how very rock-n-roll!

oh and the ghost of lanzer has been haunting me with brilliant financial legal advice, so i'm almost over his sexist style.


same for bartelt.

bartelt's ghost reminds me of huge amounts of brilliance.

but i am so happy i don't have to show up for the sexist cave-man speak in person!

it is almost overshadowed by the . . . future.

and hey you all with dyslexia and blindness and economic struggles.  hang tight.  i don't know what to do now but you can read my new blog here:
http://whyfacebookfacebooks.blogspot.com/

beautiful memory---going to the college counselor in tears about why are the professors saying sexist stuff like so retrogressive time travel . . . .

beautiful memory: mammoth red che guevera flag hovering over the orwellian censorship of this blog spitting contest in eckford's office . . .

it was such a "human experience" in stark contrast to blogging/receiving "you have no case" emails.

i have no "A" for sure because why????

because i loved a situation enough to not sit passively by and let a virus corrupt  the system of something otherwise so profound it threatened to knock me off my feet.

i have no "A" in Anthropology but i have a whole BLOG full of all kinds of alphabet soup.

and i read brian bartelt's dissertation more than 2 and a half times, for crying out loud he could learn to realize a little soul-felt criticism from a spiritual ally and intellectual devotee is a wonderful thing sometimes!!!!!!  ribbons!

why grade me a "C" when all i want is to catch you up to speed where it is not necessary to fill lecture up with expletives and misogynist punch to make sure we know you are not gay.  it's okay.  you don't have to do that.

we know you are not gay and not racist, you don't have to talk ghetto to prove it and get so anatomical.  you neither eckford.  it just makes me want to throw up the way you crepily said "VAGINA" in that closed door meeting with bartelt and you and i.  what in heavens name were you thinking?

and repeating "tits and ass" and all the other stupid stuff and then calling me UNACCEPTABLE.


like what? its the 1950"s beebopaloola and that word has any meaning?

equality is UNACCEPTABLE at LACC for a lot of people and a big JIM CROW party financed by the state if you ask me where women get harassed and minorities and the disabled get marginalized.  it is discouraging and i find that unacceptable!

thanks for trying to help me with vocab that caused me to permanently turn off the TV when i was in eigth grade.  yeah!

like i totally want to relive 1980's sexist reaganomicon retrogressive "you came to far powerwoman" backlash.

spaghetti!


so i think scott clapson should apoplogize for being mean to sheila dharod.  and warning:
DO NOT GO TO LACC IF YOU ARE "FEMALE" and or "INDIAN"

it just isn't going to be 100% positive.

i also still totally wish i could have given my middle eastern studies project and felt that the censoring of that was another ironic women to keep women in a

virtual burka
or worse

in flames

burning at the stake like
jeanne d'arc

hypocrite bourgeois burgerlich KETTLE MEISTROS! whahah!
but thanks for all the cool info!

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

"DO NOT GO TO LACC IF YOU ARE "FEMALE" and or "INDIAN""

why? I don't understand. Can you please explain?

Anonymous said...

^ yeah, id like to know to since i'm indian

mary rose lenore eng (please) said...

the cruelty shown to my friend sheila dharod was really unfair. she protected a woman who was sexually harassed, and then was harassed herself.

she is really a hero to me because she has the guts to call people out on their corruption, but i think she really suffered at the teeth of LACC's student government. so not only did they protect the sexual harassment of a minor, but they kicked sheila out of student government for calling them on their drunken antics.

i am so sorry.

other students told me of other racist stuff on campus. the main point is that this school has low standards, protects harassment, harasses whistleblowers, and is especially cruel to women or women of color who do not fit into their subservient expectations.

sheila was accused of being "uncooperative" and "vexatious" by scott clapson. what i undersatnd is that she was uncooperative with the coverup of the ASO harassment of a minor scandal, she exposed it, and then was subject to a defamation campaign.

as for why scott clapson is so easily vexed, or thinks that "vexatious" is a watertight legal concept is beyond me.

that he hauls his facebook friends out for a good hate party to hate on me for defending sheila and critiquing all the sexism i heard flying out of the mouths of professors at LACC, well . . .
evidently causing the poor 19 year old who was harassed by the ASO a ton of grief was not enough.
it is a neverending hate party on facebook!

a ring of mainly male student government macho boys jumped sheila in this travesty and well----the administrators rolled over to play dead because well . . . they have no soul or truth . . . it was very very sad.

but i can say sheila is the smartest person i know from that school and my best teacher at LACC and i thank her for teaching me about real satygraha.