THE TECHNOLOGY OF STUDY®

Global Education and the human ability to critically think have been on a very steep decline and have suffered an unrelenting onslaught over the last couple of hundred years (read the full article here) resulting in the following non-exhaustive list:

• Huge global skills shortage despite large population. 
• Students and adults who can no longer think for themselves.
• Countless educational theories advanced in countless papers and books, but no results as evidenced by the current state of global education.
• Education has become pushing students to “memorise to pass exams” instead of learning for real life application, thus completely destroying a student’s ability to think.
• Education has become behaviour management, learning disorders, prescription drugs and electric shock treatment for adults and children etc.
• Students highly stressed, high suicide rates, depression, mental health problems.
• Soaring crime and drug-use in areas where good education is lacking.
• The loss of human knowledge.

Consequently, American writer and philosopher, L. Ron Hubbard, spent many years researching the underlying cause behind the failure of a student to learn and the failure of the education system to educate properly.

One important focus of this research was the negative effects of misunderstood words or symbols on a person’s ability to learn, to retain data and to both communicate and receive communication. While many a scholar had dedicated their research to the origin and function of language, research on how words affects us has mainly been overlooked.

The Technology of Study, or Study Tech as it is often referred to, is the culmination of these many years of research. It is a philosophical approach to education and learning which was fully codified in the 1960s and has been in use ever since.

Its methodology is of such simplicity that anyone can learn it and use it to become an able learner in any subject, thus seriously increasing one's chances of success in life.

At the core of Study Tech is the isolation and description of the three barriers to study and learning, as well as the provision of a complete methodology for students and teachers to recognise those barriers and successfully handle them, thus ensuring effective and fun learning.

With that knowledge, students, teachers or parents are in a position to effectively handle and remove learning and educational problems for themselves or for others. With Study Tech, all learning is open to a person, and is, thereby, a powerful agent for boosting a student’s self-confidence and resilience.

Study Tech provides a methodology which includes the following topics (see reference section below for links to more information, books etc.):

• The three barriers to study (download an introductory booklet here).
• Developing a willingness to learn in students.
• The effects of misunderstood words and symbols on learning.
• The phenomena of the misunderstood word.
• The ten ways a word or symbol can be misunderstood.
• The best way to clarify a word in the dictionary.
• Dictionaries, how to use them, and recognising good and bad ones.
• Importance of grammar and the small common words of the English language.
• How to locate an elusive misunderstood word or symbol.
• Student checkouts and coaching.
• Balancing the mass and significance of a subject (see the thee barriers to study booklet).
• Balancing the “doing” of a subject.
• The use of demonstration - various effective methods.
• Instruction on a gradient: step by step approach to learning a subject.
• The importance of evaluation of information, and how to go about it.
• The purpose and use of a subject.
• The intention of a student, a vital ingredient for successful study.
• The classroom or course room - recommended set-up.
• Key principles in education and learning.
• How to ensure success in study.
• Keeping it simple.

The simple, yet powerful, discoveries and methodology found in Study Tech undercut a large swathe of educational theories such as the different learning styles (for e.g. visual, auditory, kinesthetic, reading/writing) because it empowers the students themselves with the complete know-how for successful learning and studying including an ability to recognise at any given time which barrier they are encountering at that precise moment, and handle it using their own critical thinking and skills. More precisely, Study Tech develops a student into an able learner:

a)  A student is one who studies. He is an attentive and systematic observer. A student is one who reads in detail in order to learn and then apply.

b)  As a student studies, he knows that his purpose is to understand the materials he is studying by reading, observing and demonstrating so as to apply them to a specific result.

c)  He connects what he is studying to what he will be doing.

d)  A student knows what he is going to do with what he is studying.

If a student could carry out the above points smoothly, they would be a very able learner. Desperately committing data to memory in order to pass an exam, even when one doesn’t really understand it, is not going to really help them become very successful in life.

Learning and applying study tech is not limited to the classroom since learning is a life-long pursuit. The ability to learn and to study successfully developed with study tech will remain with a student for the rest of their life, and they will be able to put it into practice in the work place, and in all further life pursuits.

Study Technology is the breakthrough that undercuts the reasons people are illiterate. It is not just another system. Study Technology is a workable methodology that makes it possible for a person to recognize and handle the barriers to successful study.

I have personally used Study Technology very successfully in my own studies, homeschooling my children, in teaching, lecturing and in my daily engineering work and research.

In it my firm belief that Study Tech has unquestionably and solidly put the disciplines of learning, education and knowledge back where they should have never left: in the field of philosophy. (For more information on this unusual statement, read my article on the decline of Western education).

You may also be interested in these articles and further information:

Study Tech Books

STEMiteracy Campaign

The Decline of Western Education in the 21st Century

The Barriers to Study

The free on-line "The Technology of Study" takes a mature student or teacher through the basics of Study Tech for immediate application. The course takes just a few hours to do.

It is available in 17 languages (Chinese, Danish, German, English, Greek, Spanish (Castilian and Latino), French, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Hungarian, Dutch, Norwegian, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish) and is delivered through the Scientology Volunteers Ministers educational platform.

For Study Tech textbooks aimed at students ages 7+ to adults, including How to Use a Dictionary and Grammar & Communication for Children, please visit the Study Tech books page .

Should you have any question on this article, or would like more information, please do not hesitate to contact me at delphineryan@protonmail.com .

As part of my volunteering work, I will give talks to schools or educational institutions. With the advent of online video platforms such as Zoom, I can give talks to groups of students almost anywhere in the world.

Please email if you would like to discuss a talk to your school.