Celebrities Help Open International Training Center For Educators

International educator training center utilizing teaching and learning methods of L. Ron Hubbard has opened in St. Louis. The program provides the step missing in general education: a technology of learning how to learn.

July 26, 2003 — Tom Cruise, Jenna Elfman, Anne Archer and Isaac Hayes assisted U.S. Congressman Lacey Clay of Missouri’s 1st District and CEO of Applied Scholastics International Bennetta Slaughter cut the grand opening ribbon tonight for the new international headquarters and campus of Applied Scholastics. The opening ceremony, tours and dinner under the stars were attended by more than 2,000 guests from Missouri and around the world who gathered in the St. Louis community of Spanish Lake for the occasion.

Educators, celebrities and politicians pull the ribbon to officially open the Applied Scholastics campus in St. Louis.

Applied Scholastics is an international education organization that licenses private schools, community literacy centers and tutors utilizing the teaching and learning methods — called Study Technology — of L. Ron Hubbard.

Ms. Slaughter said that the missing step in education is teaching students how to learn. When a student knows how to learn, he or she can learn any subject and participate in lifelong learning. High-school dropout rates range from 25% to 45% internationally, and the U.S. rate exceeds 10%. UNESCO, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, puts the number of illiterate adults worldwide at 862 million. Of this, tens of millions are functionally illiterate Americans, unable to compete in the workplace and only partially capable of leading productive lives.

Left, Ann Therese Ndong-Jatta, Secretary of State for Education in the Gambia, and Bennetta Slaughter, CEO of Applied Scholastics International.

At the new campus, Applied Scholastics will be training teachers, corporate trainers, mentors, tutors and education consultants with Mr. Hubbard’s unique and precise system of learning any subject. These services, which are designed to supplement existing educational training, include workshops and courses ranging from educational basics to advanced teaching strategies and methodologies. Several of the courses offer continuing education or postgraduate credits.

L. Ron Hubbard developed Study Technology in the 1960s when he saw that declining educational standards were profoundly affecting the learning abilities of people he was attempting to instruct. His investigation into this and research regarding the basic laws of education led to a revolutionary development in the field — the development of a technology of study. As educators throughout the world learned of Mr. Hubbard’s breakthroughs, they began to utilize them in their own work, thus forming the roots of what is now the international Applied Scholastics program.

Lef to right, Isaac Hayes, Anne Archer, U.S. Rep. Lacey Clay and Jenna Elfman at Applied Scholastics International grand opening.

In a July 2003 interview with People Magazine, actor Tom Cruise told of his personal experience in using Mr. Hubbard’s Study Technology to overcome his struggle with learning. Academy Award-nominated actress Anne Archer has been an outspoken proponent over the past decade after raising her two children with Study Technology. Soul legend Isaac Hayes has opened schools and literacy centers in American inner cities and in Africa.

L. Ron Hubbard’s advanced technology of study is now used by an estimated 3 million students and thousands of teachers in universities and school systems internationally.