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, 29 April 2010

remembering my first ASO meeting when someone said something harassing to sheila about five weeks ago.
i immediately spoke up and said "don't sexually harass people from the legal department.  you are barking up the wrong tree. "

i remember that michael laughed.
it was rather funny, wasn't it?
i want to ask them if they remember it.

idea: why going to LACC is similar to time travel.

retrogressive, back in to the fifties, etc. sexist, absurd, anti-technology . . .

edu-tainment: entertaining levels of incompetence in education.

and wondering if the ASO would conduct their little hate campagn against a white man or a white woman?

would they do to me what they are doing to sheila?
i doubt it.

why is the ASO so hateful and divisive and negative?

major bad vibes.

more students should come and observe.
but like me, they probably implicitly distrust the process.
they might find it edutaining especially if they are into cruelty to women, or women of color.
so bizarre!!!!
more later
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