6 ms·

Fundamentally there are few barriers to study and they were researched well by L. Ron Hubbard, and are applied through Applied Scholastics http://www.appliedsch

Fundamentally there are few barriers to study and they were researched well by L. Ron Hubbard, and are applied through Applied Scholastics http://www.appliedscholastics.org/ http://www.appliedscholastics.org/ The technology to study is exact, and also involved clarification of any words and symbols and meaning that one does not understand. http://www.appliedscholastics.org/study-tech/a-breakthrough-in-learning.html http://www.appliedscholastics.org/study-tech/a-breakthrough-... Everybody can learn anything, there are no stupid kids or students, there are students with misunderstoods and those may be clarified.

Cyph0n 8y ago
Sorry, but it's hard for me to trust anything that is related to Scientology. Do you have any neutral references on this "technique"?
gerdesj 8y ago
Everybody can learn anything, there are no stupid kids or students, there are students with misunderstoods and those may be clarified. A very odd statement: * Everybody can learn anything, - no we cannot, for obvious reasons * there are no stupid kids or students, - fair enough, I agree * there are students with misunderstoods - assuming a speling mistak, "misunderstandings" doesn't work here either * and those may be clarified. - Not sure how you clarify a misunderstanding: it is already a misunderstanding, unless you are actually referring to butter for some reason.
- jacobolus 8y ago
  You could try to be charitably skeptical instead of pedantic, dismissive, and gratuitously insulting. From the website linked, we can infer that “misunderstood” is supposed to be “misunderstood word”.
noonespecial 8y ago
I always though that this "wisdom" from LRH was about as useful as the rest of Scientology itself. All I have to do to learn is look up the words I don't understand? You don't say. Let me guess, all I have to do to walk from San Francisco to New York is take steps. All I have to do to lose weight is eat less. Its silly reductionism dressed up to sound profound in order to sell an enormous fraud. File it under true but not especially useful.
- jacobolus 8y ago
  What’s the point of “guessing” something uncharitable and then making a dismissive hostile comment, instead of either examining the link or just keeping quiet? Remember, the other people posting here are humans with feelings, and they are contributing because they want to be helpful. It’s quite unfortunate that the previous poster was so heavily downvoted based on readers’ knee-jerk reaction to Hubbard’s name. The claim of the materials on the website is that 3 serious barriers to learning are (1) studying objects or phenomena without ever interacting with them personally, but only treating them abstractly/formally, (2) studying skills/ideas beyond the student’s current level without first covering prerequisite skills/ideas and building slowly, (3) misconceptions stemming from misunderstood words. It does not suggest that fixing these 3 things is easy, or will solve every problem in education. Sure, this seems largely like common sense, and is by no means a revolutionary insight (contrary to the site’s marketing message), but in practice schools often do a terrible job at following this basic advice, and many students e.g. don’t really know how to use a dictionary. It seems this organization has various materials and training for sale. It is at least plausible that these are well produced and useful.
- kungtotte 8y ago
  One of those is not like the other. All you really have to do to lose weight is to eat less (where less is defined as "fewer calories"). There's nothing more to it. That's the entire method. Everything else is just there to aid you in accomplishing that goal. This is a perfect example illustrating why simple and easy aren't synonyms. Losing weight is simple (it's literally a single thing you have to do), but far from easy since chocolate is really tasty.

Cyph0n 8y ago

Sorry, but it's hard for me to trust anything that is related to Scientology. Do you have any neutral references on this "technique"?

gerdesj 8y ago

Everybody can learn anything, there are no stupid kids or students, there are students with misunderstoods and those may be clarified. A very odd statement: * Everybody can learn anything, - no we cannot, for obvious reasons * there are no stupid kids or students, - fair enough, I agree * there are students with misunderstoods - assuming a speling mistak, "misunderstandings" doesn't work here either * and those may be clarified. - Not sure how you clarify a misunderstanding: it is already a misunderstanding, unless you are actually referring to butter for some reason.

jacobolus 8y ago
You could try to be charitably skeptical instead of pedantic, dismissive, and gratuitously insulting. From the website linked, we can infer that “misunderstood” is supposed to be “misunderstood word”.

noonespecial 8y ago

I always though that this "wisdom" from LRH was about as useful as the rest of Scientology itself. All I have to do to learn is look up the words I don't understand? You don't say. Let me guess, all I have to do to walk from San Francisco to New York is take steps. All I have to do to lose weight is eat less. Its silly reductionism dressed up to sound profound in order to sell an enormous fraud. File it under true but not especially useful.

jacobolus 8y ago
What’s the point of “guessing” something uncharitable and then making a dismissive hostile comment, instead of either examining the link or just keeping quiet? Remember, the other people posting here are humans with feelings, and they are contributing because they want to be helpful. It’s quite unfortunate that the previous poster was so heavily downvoted based on readers’ knee-jerk reaction to Hubbard’s name. The claim of the materials on the website is that 3 serious barriers to learning are (1) studying objects or phenomena without ever interacting with them personally, but only treating them abstractly/formally, (2) studying skills/ideas beyond the student’s current level without first covering prerequisite skills/ideas and building slowly, (3) misconceptions stemming from misunderstood words. It does not suggest that fixing these 3 things is easy, or will solve every problem in education. Sure, this seems largely like common sense, and is by no means a revolutionary insight (contrary to the site’s marketing message), but in practice schools often do a terrible job at following this basic advice, and many students e.g. don’t really know how to use a dictionary. It seems this organization has various materials and training for sale. It is at least plausible that these are well produced and useful.
kungtotte 8y ago
One of those is not like the other. All you really have to do to lose weight is to eat less (where less is defined as "fewer calories"). There's nothing more to it. That's the entire method. Everything else is just there to aid you in accomplishing that goal. This is a perfect example illustrating why simple and easy aren't synonyms. Losing weight is simple (it's literally a single thing you have to do), but far from easy since chocolate is really tasty.