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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
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Professor:
Kathleen E. High, M.Ed.
http://instruction.mtsac.edu/khigh/
Please remember to turn off your cell phone!
(Nature vs. Nurture)
Forcing conformity makes the
world more "efficient."
(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
*According to Urie Bronfenbrenner’s theory of Ecological Model of Child Development
The process for achieving the dream is similar
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“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
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“A lack of planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my
part.”
Author Unknown
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"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
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“If you fall down, get up, dust off, and get going again."
Richard Young, Retired Fitness Coach, Rio Hondo College
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“You know, Kathleen…Only ‘boring’ people get bored.”
(Attitude is a choice.)
MiMi High, My mother…in response to my adolescent whining!