What the best college students do – Ken Bain

- Arkansas Ozarks - moved around a lot - sixteen schools in twelve years - her town did not read much besides the Bible - grandfather would tell her stories, then asked her to tell him stories. asked her to tell more details - 8th grade decided she was a writer after grandfather had passed - won a national writing competition that payed for her first year in college - the people "who got the most out of life" were the "people who were the best integrated" - her father - when she studied biology, thought how it applied to English or music

- "Growth is the discovery the dynamic power of the mind" - Told Sherry that she should fulfill their own personal need to keep growing - "If you are not capable of excitement, you will never produce anything"

- Choreographer who blends politics and science together in her performances - Went to Bennington College in Vermont on a dance scholarship - Wanted to dance and fight social wrongs like her father taught her to - History professor at Bennington gave her a question and some historical resources and asked her to draw her own conclusions for a paper - Took a course at the University of Maryland on improvisation that helped free her to make mistakes and learn from them

- Texas boy of teacher parents - Absorbed into the ways of waking up early to feed the animals and perform chores - Learned to play the clarinet (because of Benny Goodman's music) - Grew up in San Antonio, Texas a city with a strong Hispanic heritage - Both ended up taking Paul Baker's course - Discovered theater, music, architecture, and creativity - Sarah focused on Spanish and English studies - Ernest went to medical school - they got married - Ernest set up a practice in Austin, Texas which became one of the largest single-practice ear, nose, and throat clinics in the country - Bought a failing soundproof room company branched out to practice rooms for musicians and radio broadcast booths - Gave millions to art museums, scholarship funds, recital halls, awards, etc.

- Won the MacArthur Genius Award for $500,000 - Family are sharecroppers in South Carolina who moved to Southern Maryland - First African American to play on the intercollegiate basketball team at the University of Miami - His neighbor taught him how to read before he went to school - entered sixth grade attending a segregated school in Montgomery County, Maryland (got hand-me-down textbooks from white schools) - A few KKK members objected to him attending Miami - Went to Belgium to play basketball where his love for history helped - He won the MacArthur Fellowship Award and the Theodore Roosevelt Award, the highest award the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) confers to anyone - Founded Growing Power, a nonprofit company that teaches people how to produce their own food, even in an urban environment