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."

Wednesday, 28 April 2010

ASO
discrimination
harassment
defamation
lawsuit
lynching
a woman of color on the federal dime

PR nightmare

call eric kim and let him know what's coming
write fink, allred, other discrim attys

and note earic peters is uninterested in equality on campus
refers it to christie passman and says ASO does not deal with discrimination against women
they actually dole it out under his watch to sheila d.

note check spelling cristy passman not christy passman
go fix mistakes

LACC
respondeat superior
apologies
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