Students should be prepared to deal with manipulative people. Students should learn how to recognize people without a conscience. Students should have strategies for managing interpersonal relationships, both good and bad.
Students should have a knowledge of the religions of the world and develop a toleration for other people.
Finally, students should become citizens of the world, dedicated to helping others while making their own dreams come true.
Developing and maintaining a systematic philosophy of life entails becoming a lifelong learner.
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LEARNING.
Learning has three basic components: specialized knowledge, basic thinking skills, and mature thinking skills.
Specialized knowledge is that part of a study that must be memorized. This "disciplinary based knowledge" contains unique terms and definitions. Language studies have their unique terms: nominative, comma, plot; mathematics has its: tangent, sum, parabola, etc. These are terms that must be memorized in order to understand and use the subject matter.
Basic thinking skills include memorization techniques, the stream of consciousness technique, outlining, note taking, rapid reading, scanning for main ideas and keywords, questioning, and reorganizing.