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, 16 April 2010

this was written last night to the t&a teacher


this is way funny!!!  i still love class but not if it has to be so
vulgar and antiquated

does anybody else call you on this?

or is everyone else numb complacent or afraid

i think language is barbaric in general but much more so when used to colonize and dominate women and ridicule and objectify them

even unknowingly.

a little self critique would do us all well

i don't come to school for pop culture regurg.
i am actually trying to avoid it.

and the fascistic tone that will accept no questions, or impressions .. . warum?

if a word makes me feel uncomfortable, why couldn't another be found?
what's so hard about about that.
isn't that what cultural sensitivity is supposed to be about?

oh and and this is so funny.
district counsel told me to take down my little blog.
i love that.


within this

it was just repartee of a sorts anyway, and there i think its you that dont get my sense of humor, the funniest part

congrats on the visual anth idea
and loved to yr loved ones

be careful

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