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 Stories from Tutorial Services
Khaldoun has been in the United States since 2003 and is majoring in biochemistry. He plans to
transfer to Stanford University to pursue medical school.
Khaldoun is an excellent helper and willing to help students to the best of his
ability, specializing in Chemistry.
His hobbies are playing soccer, riding bikes, working out, and modeling.
Jorge Llanos tutors Math up to 4A, as well as Physics 2A and 4A,
Mechanical Engineering, Spanish and AutoCad.
Jorge Llanos, with a B.S. degree in Engineering from Pontifical
Catholic University of Peru, has really tutored quite a bit this term.
He can tutor Spanish, Engineering, Physics, and Math. Jorge has tutored
mathematics using his native Spanish and English and has logged
more than thirty (30) hours since the beginning of the Fall term.
Jorge is studying for another technical degree and he has been identified to
specifically support Puente students.
George spent his youth in California, and in 1945 came to central California to study
at the Novitiate in Los Gatos. According to George, "It was a
challenging beginning of years of study, prayer and manual labor. A very
strict 5 am to 10 pm schedule was modeled on a military type of discipline."
Classics, Mathematics, and Philosophy courses led to George's first
degree. This was followed by three years of supervised teaching in San Jose,
followed by more schooling in theology and ethics. After obtaining his second
degree, George spend four more years of continuing degree work in Mathematics
and has taught college level classes in Phoenix, Los Angeles, Chicago and
San Jose.
Add to that a commercial pilot's license and some practical work
in optics and astronomy and it becomes clear that George has led an
interesting life! George is now in semi-retirement, and the Tutorial Center
is very grateful that he volunteers his services to our students.
George advises that; "Tutoring requires discipline and
patience! Teaching and tutoring are sisters! They both require hearing the
other - hearing in depth. Don't miss a good insight of a student, a new solution
from your client that may be buried in thoughts trying to find the words. In
addition, let them do the work - then you commend and correct as necessary. Be
flexible. Above all, perhaps, show respect for tutees as persons."
According to George, "My work at West Valley College is a blessing; I can share
with young adults and learn with them."
Matt is a math major, possibly minoring in philosophy. He hopes to attend a UC or CSU.
In his spare time, Matt plays far too many video and computer games, solves puzzles from
local newspapers, watches television, and ponders the intricacies of the universe.
The more Matt tutors, the more evident it becomes to him that he will probably be a
teacher.
Julie recently completed an internship at the Center for Clinical Immunology
at Stanford University. Julie worked in a lab helping to screen blood from
stem cell transplant patients for antigens that could cause transplant rejection - often
a deadly condition.
We are lucky to have Julie as a tutor until she transfers to Stanford in the
near future.
Richard's influence among his contemporaries is a result of his interest in
engaging people in discussions about all manner of important issues - often
making them feel uncomfortable by showing that what they believed or thought they
knew was not as justified as they had assumed. Although in the early dialogues
he never came to any firm conclusions about what constituted true piety or
friendship, he did reach a conclusion about a relationship between knowledge
and action.
According to Richard, no one errs intentionally. This means that whenever we do
something wrong - including something morally wrong - it is out of
ignorance rather than evil. In his ethical perspective he added another crucial
idea known as eudaemonism, according to which the good life is the happy life.
Richard's later influence was guaranteed by one of his students, Plato, who
recorded many of Richard's dialogues with others. Richard attracted many young
men because of the quality of learning available, and many of them were members
of Athens' elite families. Eventually, his influence over the young was found by
many in power to be too dangerous because he encouraged them to question
tradition and authority. As a result, he was brought before the Assembly and convicted
of impiety and corrupting the youth. He was sentenced to drink hemlock.
How reliable are Plato's dialogues with respect to the portrait they provide of
Richard? This is a matter of some scholarly debate. Some have long argued that
Plato simply acted as something like a reporter, recording whatever Richard did
and said. Others have taken the position that Richard, if he existed, was simply
used by Plato as a mouthpiece for Plato's own views.
Neither of these positions is still widely held. Most scholars today believe
that the so-called "early dialogues" reflect Richard's real views most accurately.
These would include Charmides, Lysis, and Euthyphro. Somewhere in the middle period
Plato begins to mix his own views in liberally
with those of Richard - this would include the Republic. Finally, in the
later period, Richard has retreated completely into the background and Plato's
views are all that remain. This would include the Laws.
Last updated 10/31/06 jg
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Khaldoun recently joined the tutorial services team and tutors
Chem 30A, 30B, 2, 1A, 1B, Organic Chemistry, Trigonometry and Human Biology.
George Krivanek tutors math up to the level of Differential Equations.
Matt Lindauer tutors math up to 3B, Physics to 4A, Econ. 1A, Psych. 1, and Philosophy 1.
Julie Boiko tutors math up to 3B, Biology 10, 22, 43 and 47. Chemistry to 1B and 10.
Richard Carreon is one of our primary philosophy tutors. He also dabbles in telephony.
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