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."

Thursday, 23 September 2010

vintage youtube: laud jerome robinson for his courage!!!!!


maryeng1 | May 19, 2010
jerome robinson reads cruel "extracted like the cancer she is" email penned by LACC ASO president james butler-zetino.
the collegian today published an expose of zetino's alleged harassment of a minor and attempt to get her drunk on school money.
unbelievably, the ASO president, in addition to supporting the defamation campaign of sheila dharod (who exposed the corruption), has no clue about email as e-evidence. do not say anything in an email you don't want to see in court, or that conveys corruption and such animosity and cruelty. amazing that this comes to light.
LACC feels like a greek tragedy.
with so much hatefulness, i feel fear.
thank you jerome for shining a light on this cruelty!
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