1/13/20

Day 1 Class Notes

I. Assignments
A. Cultural Reflection Papers-Daily
1. What do you think about the things that are going on
2. Happy to look them over every day
B. Cultural Learning ePortfolio
1. Scholarly journal
II. Reflections paper Day 1 (1/13/20) notes
A. Apprehensive about male professor teaching class
1. Curious to see how the professor interacted with male versus female
student
2. Excited about the diverse educational background of professor
3. Excited about learning and excited to teach
a) Wants to help students
4. Clear that he is not being derogatory
a) “You and I are scholars together”
B. Good job communicating expectations and enthusiasm for the class
C. Clearly thought through what he wants us to get out of this class
1. Structured class on trust in himself and what he is teaching
D. Pay attention to details in order to be great
E. You must grow and become
F. “There are too many good people but why not be great?”-Donley
1. We are all scholars
G. Donley’s View on Women
1. Order of Creation Story
a) Eve was made from one of Adam’s ribs- which means equal
(1) She is different, built different, different mind, different
wiring, but she is equal to man
b) In Hebrew writing, the last item of writing is the best
(1) God made Eve last
(2) The Woman is the Greatest of God’s Creation
III. Pillars for Greatness
A. Sapere Aude: Incipe!
1. Begin studying rhetoric
a) Learn how to speak well
2. Do not be someone who waits to cross the river until the river stops
flowing
a) “Dare to know: begin”-Horace
 b) I think I cross the river but tentatively, I am both scared to cross
the river and not to cross the river
c) Cross many rivers, learn other disciplines
(1) Donley principle: I am going to learn with the best, why
would I do anything less?
(2) Knowing many areas helps make you valuable
B. Pay close attention to detail
1. Meta means above and alongside
a) Designed as a genuine all-inclusive, systemic, integrative
worldview
b) Essential to bring all corners of knowledge together
C. Knowledge is singular, not plural
1. Knowledge does not consist of islands
2. Build all facets of education into one singular “seamless curriculum”
a) Rather than compartmentalizing
3. Learn your discipline and everything else
a) Avoid being just a repeater
D. Do not be at the mercy of others telling you something
IV. Women of the ancient world
A. Seen as “defective men”
1. This is still the way that it is and there is one reason why but has many
tentacles
B. Aristotle “a woman is simply an ineffective man”
C. Jewish religion could not vote because they are born liars
1. Thanks for not making me a gentile (dog), slave, and a woman
D. Women at the age of puberty (10) she could be engaged, married, and have
children, women still tend to marry men who are older
1. Been seen as a success formula
E. Women got the right to vote first in 1919 England
F. Not even blatant quotes still just leave women out of the picture completely
1. Rosalind Franklin-discovered DNA and received nothing
a) Watson and Crick could not have done anything without her
(1) Credited with discovering the double-helix
(2) Stole the discovery from Franklin
2. Katherine Johnson-made calculations for the lunar module
a) Hugely responsible for NASA success in space
b) 3rd African American to earn a Ph.D. in mathematics and worked
at NASA at the flight research division
G. Subtleties reinforce male dominance in society
1. Because it is less obvious it is still an issue
2. The misconception of women who want equality being “crazy” limits
women being taken seriously
3. The way children are raised reinforces these things “It is not that I do not
trust you it is that I do not trust the world”
4. So often we are taught to accept rather than challenge