The third barrier to study is the most important of the three. It is the prime factor involved with stupidity and many other unwanted conditions.

This third barrier is the misunderstood word. A misunderstood definition or a not-comprehended definition or an undefined word can thoroughly block one’s understanding of a subject and can even cause one to abandon the subject entirely.

This milestone in the field of education has great application, but it was overlooked by every educator in history.

Going past a word or symbol for which one does not have a proper definition gives one a distinctly blank or washed-out feeling. The person will get a “not-there” feeling and will begin to feel a nervous hysteria. These are manifestations distinct from either of the other two barriers.

The barrier of the misunderstood word is far more important than the other two, however. It has much to do with human relations, the mind and different subjects. It establishes aptitude or lack of aptitude and is the key to what psychologists were attempting to test for years without recognizing what it was.

A person might or might not have brilliance as a computer programmer, but his ability to do the motions of computer programming is dependent exclusively and only upon definitions. There is some word in the field of computer programming that the person who is inept did not define or understand and that was followed by an inability to act in the field of computer programming.

This is extremely important because it tells one what happens to doingness and that the restoration of doingness depends only on the location and understanding of any word which has been misunderstood in a subject.

A reader coming to the bottom of a page only to realize he didn’t remember what he had just read is the phenomenon of a misunderstood word, and one will always be found just before the material became blank in his mind.

This sweeping discovery is applicable to any sphere of endeavor, and opens wide the gates to education.

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