1. Study 80: Studying & Learning: Foundations for Success - #21278
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Study 80: Studying & Learning:
Foundations for Success - #21278
Mt. San Antonio College
Fall, 2012
Tuesdays & Thursdays
6:30pm – 7:55pm
Room 6-144
Professor:
Kathleen E. High, M.Ed.
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2. Square Watermelons
Forcing conformity makes the world more "efficient."
(Nature vs. Nurture)
(Watermelons grown in a square box to make them more space-efficient for storage and shipping purposes.)
Positive shaping – Develops Natural Talent & Compensates for weakness
Negative Shaping – Does much damage to the individual’s psyche

3. Natural Watermelons

6. Environmental Shaping Factors*
*According to Urie Bronfenbrenner’s theory of Ecological Model of Child Development

8. Floundering to Focused:
Compartmentalized Living
Purposeful Living

9. The process for achieving the dream is similar
Developing Purpose:
The process for achieving the dream is similar

15. Most Memorable Quotes:
“I understand you have a lot going on in your life, but I’m trying to prepare you for the university and the “real world”. … They don’t want to hear excuses.”
Countless Unnamed Professors, Rio Hondo College
“A lack of planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part.”
Author Unknown
"You can always find a million excuses for not doing something. …The problem is that excuses do nothing more than pacify your own guilt for not doing what you should have done in the first place."
Richard Young, Retired Fitness Coach, Rio Hondo College
“If you fall down, get up, dust off, and get going again."
“You know, Kathleen…Only ‘boring’ people get bored.”
(Attitude is a choice.)
MiMi High, My mother…in response to my adolescent whining!