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

writing the la catholic worker group:


i go to los angeles city college.

i am experiencing classroom verbal harassment from multiple professors who speak of women as sluts, whore, tits and ass.

i am consulting with a sexual harassment attorney as well as the christian legal group 


which successfully litigated re:LACC professor incompetence.

i think this would make a good story.

i was raised catholic in extremely good catholic schools.

also do you know a catholic lawyer or law group that would consider a case v. LACC district for protecting abusive speech contrary to my spiritual beliefs, or as harassment?

i was raised catholic and am enrolled in the paralegal dept.  where multiple professors enforce a degrading atmosphere.

other students from other departments will confirm the pervasiveness of this tax-funded abuse.

the lopez case settled recently re: a professor calling a student a bastard.

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