With so much attention on improving the quality of education, with thousands of millions spent each year to remedy the situation, why do education failures persist?
There is an answer. Quite simply, these efforts have been directed at solving the wrong problems.
At the root of educational failures lies a fundamental problem that has been almost universally overlooked: Students have never been taught how to learn.
Children are thrown into their school years and basic subjects without ever first being taught how to go about learning those subjects. As they grow older they are confronted by more and more complex areas of study, still without ever having acquired the skills with which to assimilate information, evaluate its relative importance and put it to use.
This has been the vital missing ingredient that has hampered all fields of study. It handicaps both children in school and adults in life.
Thus, many students find education a trying and difficult process. They never master the ability to rapidly learn something with certainty and ease. Others, even though they apparently have less difficulty studying, find they are unable to apply what they have read.
It is a reality of the modern world that anyone in the work force, whether on the factory floor or in the executive suite, must have an ability to assimilate important information, retain it and then be able to apply it. This process, whether formal or informal, is what is meant by “study.”
During the course of his development of Dianetics and Scientology, author and humanitarian L. Ron Hubbard recognised the failings of modern education and training. His extensive investigation into the problems of teaching others led to a breakthrough — the first comprehensive understanding of the real barriers to effective learning. From this, Mr. Hubbard developed a precise technology on how to learn any subject — a technology that ensures a person will not only fully grasp what he is studying, but proficiently apply what he has studied in work or in life.
These breakthroughs came to be known as “Study Technology.” They provide the first fully workable approach to teaching people exactly how to learn. Used throughout the Scientology religion in all its churches, missions and groups, it is also widely used outside the Church, in schools, homes and businesses.
Study Technology is based on fundamental principles that underlie all learning. It delineates the barriers which block a person's ability to grasp information and provides precise methodologies to overcome those barriers.
