Super-Charged Learning

Table 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

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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