EDUCATOR

“I have been engaged in a study of applications of technology to illiteracy and illiterate or semiliterate populations,” declared L. Ron Hubbard, “and found some simple levels of approach.” If seemingly a casual statement, it is not. That study of illiteracy spanned at least thirty-five years, and culminated in a body of work that has factually changed the way in which we perceive language; while as for those “simple levels of approach,” we are, very truthfully, speaking of the answer to our twentieth-century educational crises.

Let us not forget that in addition to his founding of Dianetics and Scientology, L. Ron Hubbard is also one of the most widely-read authors of all time; and it was with a love of words possessed only by our finest writers that he came to address the crises of illiteracy.

“The inability to read,” he noted in 1979, “is far, far more widespread and worse than anyone has imagined.” Even considering the generally conceded bottom-line figure of twenty million functionally illiterate Americans, the problem is unquestionably grave.

Yet Mr. Hubbard has been said, has been bold enough to assert that for any learning problem there is a workable solution — and the millions who have employed his tools now agree. For example, there is a largely Hispanic neighborhood in California where once illiterate members of a street gang now spend afternoons genuinely engrossed in textbooks. There are previously illiterate members of South Central Los Angeles gangs who have likewise become inveterate readers. There were once marginally literate British schoolchildren who advanced a full year in reading levels after but ten hours of instruction in Mr. Hubbard’s methods, while New Zealand students actually measured twelve points higher on IQ tests after the same.

When speaking of Mr. Hubbard’s tools for learning, one is not speaking of some new study aid, a memorization technique or phonetic reading program. Rather, it is a complete technology for study, the means by which any subject may be grasped. Nor is it an arbitrary approach. These are the components of study, this is how we learn. And for all that has been prescribed in the name of education over the last hundred years, this is wholly and utterly NEW.

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