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, 5 May 2010



more footage later from my small camera.
apologies for the technical nightmare of a quicktime recording on a laptop.
i have audio minutes as well by mp4 for anyone interested.

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who knew you could get federal and state tax dollars at work to enact your petty power politics at school?
kicking a competent woman out of student government, and launching a huge hate campaign the during election week, shows LACC students what losers fill the ASO.
i would never hang out with such creepy people if it were not to publicize their cruelty and incompetence.
sheila dharod is a very strong and powerful leader and has exposed the pettiness of the ASO. sadly the internet will now be filled with the bad press of yet more LACC cruelty and tax-waste.
sheila knows more about law and government than anyone in the room. she is extremely articulate and calls out the ASO for their tax-funded incompetence. so it is only natural they want to remove her from their club.
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