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."

Tuesday 28 May 2019

gina koga and i talk new media at duffy's property law class at LACC

LACC legal association erases the ASO sexual harassment scandal question



vargas said it was "inappropriate." not the scandal, but the question regarding if the legal association has an official policy on the sexual harassment and intoxication of a minor. more kill the messenger style behavior. i was asked to leave the meeting for writing this on the blackboard prior to the meeting's start, as everyone gathered for the potluck and chatted. darwin the president came up to me and asked me to leave the legal association for being negative. i think it is negative that they are a male dominated club, have been rude to sheila, are rude to me, and support the administration cover up of the ASO harassment scandal and the defamation of sheila dharod for calling the ASO, the legal association, and LACC admin out for incompetance and corruption.

ASO learns about personal attacks and character defamation to silence the opposition


Sheila Dharod v. Lacc, 11-56607 (9th Cir. 2013)
https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/820839/sheila-dharod-v-lacc/

ASO corruption cover-up

stephen stapleton discusses lewis misconduct

stephen stapleton discusses cristy passman at LACC