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Book SynopsisAnyone wishing to improve his/her learning will benefit from Super-Charged Learning, but it is especially intended for parents of K-12 children. What parents know about their children is what should make them critical players for their children. Put the hay down where the goats can get it. That's what parents do best . . . because they know their goats best.Knowing how to apply life-experiences to learning is what Super-Charged Learning is about. Parents know their children's experiences. They can show them how to use these experiences to learn. It's about resorting to nonsense, silliness, absurdity, and goofy things! It's about wacky thinking! Think children don't like these?!Super-Charged Learning uses the skill-sets that elite athletes use to be champions! Now parents can show their children how to use these to be champions . . . in their academics.Athletes want to be bigger-faster-stronger. Make your child that kind of learner: learn bigger quantities of information, learn
Table of ContentsTable of Contents Preface Introduction: Chapter 1: When We Were Children . . . on being out there Childlike Behavior Atomic Learning Do Not Touch! Grow Up? Getting Back to Childhood Chapter 2: The Human Genome . . . What Is It and Who Cares Anyway? What it Is A Dirty Word? Inferior yet Superior Here Kitty Kitty! Watch the Birdie! Sit Fido! Volition and Superiority To Be or Not To be . . .It Really Is the Question Exceptions to the Rule Combining Resources A Double Whammy Chapter 3: Greeting Cards, Obscenities, and the Stuff of Learning Happy Birthday to You You Dirty So-and-So The Maligned Canine A Matter of Semantics Profanity . . . Why? Color My World Doggie Understanding? A 500 lb. Gorilla Understanding! Use it or Lose it! A Necessary Disclaimer Chapter 4: Making up Crap . . . the Process and the Product Schooling in the 1950’s, a South-Side Experience Hangin’ Up Their Stuff . . . The Parable of the Hooks Well, It’s Kinda’ Like This . . . The Magic Connection Inside an Automobile Engine Mom Always Said: “Pick Your Friends Carefully!” A Large-Toothed Beaver and a World Religion Cute and Funny Sticks! A Stick-Deodorant Tale Choose to Learn . . . Do Something! Synergistic Thinking = a Strategy Choice Making up Crap . . . Synergistic Thinking, What to Do . . . How to Do It The Rest of the Story Chapter 5: Crappy Examples Casual Acquaintances or Close Friends Brainy Stuff A Very Large Pachyderm Death, a Eulogy, and a Process A Photograph Will Do Quite Nicely! A Rich Guy, a River, and a Basketball Superstar Going to the Bakery A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Remembering! So What If You Can’t Sing? A Long-Ago Rock & Roll Legend Singing the U S Presidents Getting From Here to There The Doctor Will See You Now Whack-A-Doodle Science CHOPKINSCaFeMgNaCl Strange Stuff . . . Ooo-Eee-Ooo Bizarre Works! Chapter 6: Education and Sports Teaching or Coaching Schools . . . Teaching Sports . . . Coaching The Seasons of Our Lives It’s Because of the Farmers? Just a Little Sports History Football Players, Excellence, and the “Off-Season” Chapter 7: Athlete-Powered Learning Going to the Picture Show Education Alone . . . No Sale! A School Principal’s Fiasco Force-of-Will . . . the Necessary Ingredient The Dog Ate My Homework! Do I Need Glasses/Contacts? You Want to Buy . . . You Must Pay! Good Diagnosis and the Right Prescription Put it Away, Somewhere . . . Now! ‘Time to Build Some Brackets Say it Away! The Best Way? Good Housekeeping Chapter 8: Sports, Academics, and a Piano Player . . . Psychology for Success My . . . How You’ve Grown Up! You Think it Before You Do it Who Says So Anyway?! Getting Your Head in the Game . . . Sports and Academics Play That Funky Music . . . Playing Football . . . Playing Books (What? When? Where?) Putting On Your Academic Game-Face Where the Rubber Meets the Road The “Louisville Lip” Trash-Talked, But to Whom? Chapter 9: Schools Can’t/Don’t Do the Job? So What?! Parents . . . It’s Your Job! The Prizefighter and the News Anchor Games People Play School Games . . . and Not Just on Athletic Fields The History . . . How We Got Here It’s Your Job? NO! It’s My Job! Human Behavior . . . Complicated, Dynamic Modern Attitudes . . . Why We’re Not like the Pilgrims Movie Dialogue to Remember! Who?, What?, Why?, Where?, When?, How? Who? What? Why? Where . . . When? How? THE Student Chapter 10: The Black Student, Countering Destructive Peer Pressure Acting White . . . How Do You Do That?! Black Culture and Education Cultural Expectations, School Climate, and Acting White Two Minus One = Less Than More Black Student-Athletes: High Status, but With a Catch Just Dumb Jocks? Athletic Participation = Corporate Culture Success Fighting the Charge Uncle Costanzo’s Wisdom I Wanna Be Like Mike! A University, a Basketball Player, and a Little Girl: Success Beyond the Boards Eating the Elephant . . . One Bite at a Time Chapter 11: So What Was That All About? A Songster and a Caretaker Beyond a Caretaker’s Workshop A Mountain Man and a Message Athletics and Education . . . Related? The Answer to the Snail’s Question Parents, ‘Time to Take Your Place! A Word about Words Peyton’s Insight . . . The Critical Additive
