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."

Monday, 31 May 2010

equality is not negative



erasures and inappropriate advocacy for victims rights

contra Administration protected abuse . . .

why was ASO drinking?

what happened to the victim of the alleged harassment?

does LACC care about women?

why do professors call me "inappropriate" for standing up for respect for women?

is LACC a safe place for women students?

why are two adult professors threatening to sue me for this blog?

why do they insist that curse words are epithets are central and essential to their teaching?

why would they corner me to regurgitate the very words i find bizarrely crude and uninteresting?

what is next for LACC?
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