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, 25 March 2010

"i need direct email of gene little to discuss the new LACC Equality Coalition.
i need to speak with him ASAP, make and appointment, and send him the research i am formulating."
thru message filter pop up.
no direct email listed--
to district diversity programs, gene little's office.
they won't pick up the phone, and i need an appointment and direct email for my e-evidence trail.

talked to delightfully careful office of general counsel for LACC district eric kim
legal counsel.
retained the right to silence re: lopez homophobia payout.
and re: administrative incompetence.
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