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    Positive Learning Skills
    Positive Learning Skills
    Positive Learning Skills
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    Positive Learning Skills

    By Will Clark

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    It's self-evident that our education system is failing American students. This failure has at least four sources.

    First, the defined purpose for education has been skewed and blurred during the past two generations. Originally, education was recognized as preparation for literacy and jobs. To accomplish this goal, education was focused on reading, writing and comprehension; with a leaning toward job preparation. Currently, education is designed only to make the designers of education programs appear successful. Education is not designed for a student's purpose or a specific goal. Without a clear goal, how can the goal ever be reached?

    Second, traditional family composition has been devastated during the past several years, especially since the inception of the 'Great Society.' Now, as many children are born to be raised by one parent as by two parents. A void has been created in America's social structure that has created a void in the education structure. When a child has been abandoned by one of two parents how can that child ever feel fully supported - and important enough to strive for excellence? A government does not raise children; that's a family duty and responsibility, and creation's norm.

    Third, the current government administration under Barack Hussein Obama is more focused on social justice, economic equality, and government control than on individual and personal success. Success of the many, society, cannot be achieved without first there being successful individuals. Success and education are individual things. There must be those who see themselves as more successful so others may see that opportunity - that door to freedom and happiness. The vision espoused by Obama is for everyone to be equal, thereby meaning mediocre - or less. Barack Obama has never focused any comments on individual and personal success for individuals. Waiting for a free handout, and having more children for a larger free handout, are not great education enhancement plans.

    Fourth, our current education system is designed for failure - that's failure in regard to what most successful people interpret as the purpose for education. That self-understanding is to prepare for a job, thereby resulting in prosperity, comfort, and happiness. Our current education plans are designed to support and facilitate the coming new world order. Under that NWO we are to all be equal - so social and economic justice will prevail on the entire earth.

    Education is a personal thing and a family responsibility. This book gives parental skills and student study skills to help fulfill that responsibility. We must not allow the government to determine our individual and personal success. It's too personal and valuable.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWill Clark
    Release dateApr 27, 2014
    ISBN9781310832260
    Positive Learning Skills
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    Will Clark

    Will Clark's author experiences began by writing inspection and evaluation reports in the U.S. Air Force. He is a retired Air Force officer and a Vietnam veteran, serving in Saigon from 1966 to 1967. His other overseas assignments include Misawa, Japan and Ankara, Turkey. In 1995, he authored a book, How to Learn, as a county-wide study skills project to encourage students to improve their grades in DeSoto County, Mississippi. Education supporters printed and distributed four thousand copies. He also wrote a weekly education column for a local newspaper, The Desoto County Tribune, the following school year. His next published book was School Bells and Broken Tales, a parody of nursery rhyme characters, also a motivation and education book for children. His other books include Shades of Retribution, a historical novel, and Simply Success, a motivation guide for students and employees. His action novels include a trilogy based on Atlantis and crystals. The first book is titled: The Atlantis Crystal. The second book is titled: She Waits In Atlantis. The third is: Return to Atlantis. This trilogy is based on his travels while assigned to Turkey, site of the ancient city of Troy. His previous political action novel, 666: Mark of the Beast, is a sequel to another political action novel, America 20XX: The New World Order. Clark and his wife, Marie, live in Diamondhead, Mississippi, where they play golf with many friends.

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      Book preview

      Positive Learning Skills - Will Clark

      POSITIVE

      LEARNING

      SKILLS

      A

      How to Learn

      Guide

      Copyright © 2014 by Will Clark

      Published by Will Clark at Smashwords

      The purpose for this digital book is to help improve education

      effectiveness in America. The author encourages copying

      and distributing this book anywhere you think it might

      promote that purpose.

      For more information about the author

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      Contents

      Goals of this Book

      A Basic Learning Experience

      10 Parent Help Skills

      20 Student Study Skills

      Summarized Study Skills

      About the Author

      Other Books by the Author

      Goals of this Book

      To help students learn how to learn by understanding the process and by accepting the idea that they have gifted abilities and success potential and are capable of wonderful achievements. Those wonderful achievements, however, must be earned with sincere effort and dedication to the task of learning. Society owes them nothing but opportunity to develop their success potential. Each student chooses his or her own success or failure; that choice often made from home, peer, or other cultural or natural influences and conditions.

      To encourage parents who don’t know how to help their children learn to accept that important and necessary task. It’s the most important part of the education process, and cannot and should not be left as merely a teacher and education establishment task. Most teachers are dedicated to their profession, but they cannot learn for a student and should not be the focus of parents’ and students’ failures.

      A Basic Learning Experience

      The other end of my cotton row was a long way off. Most times I couldn’t even see that end because the rows curved in several places. In the Central Mississippi hill country cultivated rows were curved around the slope’s contour to keep dirt from washing away during hard rains. Cotton rows followed the same curves as the heavy-duty terraces placed at certain intervals, their closeness depending on the severity of the slope. I had been down these rows many times already and, although I couldn’t see the end, I knew how far it was. It was a long way, and looked forever away for a bare-foot, ten-year-old boy.

      I had seen cotton rows in the flat lands of the Mississippi Delta. They were straight, but so long one couldn’t see the end of those either; some as long as a mile. I wondered how one could ever get to the other end of those.

      Early in the growing season rain was welcome to make the cotton seed explode, but while that happened grass and weeds usually drank first and surged well ahead of the cotton plants, selfishly trying to leave none for their later rival. At that time, in the early nineteen-fifties, herbicides were not available, especially for small-acre farmers. The only dependable herbicide was a hoe, a tool with a handle much longer than the height of most ten-year-olds. Some still exist today, most in historical museums or propped in a seldom visited corner of a hardware store. In the nineteen-fifties, and before, it was the weapon of choice to fight grass and weeds in cotton and corn fields. Special pride blossomed from those who owned one with the best shape or the sharpest edge. When I was the youngest in the field, mine was always the most dulled reject with which I had to beat grass and weeds into submission rather than cut them with a sharp edge.

      Chopping cotton was long, hard, and tedious work for a ten-year-old or one of any age. Just getting to the other end of one row was challenging. That process, seemingly simple, was more complex than could be imagined by one lacking that experience. The process could even be compared to saving a new-born baby from dangerous bullies. That new, fragile plant, only three or four inches tall, often was strangled by tenacious and hard grass and weeds. Why, then, the complicated process? Hoeing (chopping) the grass too close to the cotton plant often destroyed the fragile plant. Not hoeing close enough or deep enough left determined grass continuing its death stranglehold. It was difficult not to destroy the plant when the dirt was either too hard or too soft and flaky. Too many destroyed plants left the cotton field too sparse for a profitable yield. Too much grass created the same result, with stunted cotton plants. Sixty years later I still remember that process: leave three or four plants standing in a group, each group

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