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."

Friday 20 May 2011

the legendary magic sexism of bartelt

okay.
i have spies. not really.  but the grapevine.

it makes its way around.

my un-named source has a friendwho takes class with the professor described as the one who takes acid with the kids.
now i don't know if this is true, but how timothy leary.
and i heard he went out to do shrooms with the beautiful portugese student he was sleeping with.
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but when tax money is involved, it is obvious that she might be exploiting him as a servant of the state.

and so the latest on sexist pottymouth genius bartelt is that there is a group of girls who sit in the back of the classroom and and are considering whether or not to make a complaint on his sexism/epithets/nastiness.

the girls feel intimidated.

the phrase pearls before swine . . . comes to mind.

he is going a little crazy she says. (my sources come from conservativeland, and are unknowing of the occult . . .)
he spoke of

animals painted in caves . . .
what do you find in common with these animals
predators
owl in the tree
i know to run because witches turn into owls.

his friend thinks he's brilliant.
of course he is.
and that is why it hurts to see such brilliance turning into buckets of deep-fried sleeze.

renounce your white skin privilege say the black panthers
and then
renounce your male privilege so too . . .

as for only letting the men talk in class, and shooting the women down every time they begin to speak . . .