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Education, Literacy and Civilization: Having long recognized the inextricable links between criminality, social upheaval and the inability to read, L. Ron Hubbard, “engaged in a study of applications of technology to illiteracy and illiterate or semiliterate populations.” What ultimately followed from that study is an arsenal of learning tools fully and factually capable of resolving the whole of a twentieth century educational crisis. To cite but two telling figures: while approximately 13 percent of all American teenagers (and upwards of 40 percent of all minority adolescents) are incapable of reading a newspaper, no less than a hundred-thousand American students regularly pack concealed weapons in their classrooms. In reply, and very dramatically so, stands the greater body of L. Ron Hubbard’s educational technology as presently utilized by thirty million students in grade schools, high schools, colleges and universities the world over.
Aptly described as Study Technology, the L. Ron Hubbard educational system is entirely unique—not a “study habits for success,” or “tips for straight-A’s”—but absolutely bedrock on the subject of learning. Delineating the three fundamental barriers to study and providing the means to surmount those barriers, Study Technology actually represents the first and only system by which a student actually learns how to learn, i. e. , how to study any subject, whether practical or theoretical, with a full and lasting comprehension. Of particular note are methods for identifying and resolving the primary barrier to all literacy problems and thus, by turns, the singular source of all scholastic failures underlying an appalling high-school dropout rate.
Additionally discussed are the bottom-line—and once more astonishing—results of application, e. g. , in controlled tests of British school children, a mere ten hours of instruction in Study Technology proved equivalent to 1.3 years of scholastic gain, while after but ten hours of instruction, a class of New Zealand students actually measured twelve points higher on IQ scores. Then again, there are the several hundred thousand or more children across the world now admirably progressing through schools they had formerly all but abandoned.
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