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to slash staff training time and costs: from teaching German and
Japanese to aircraft crews to training telephone linesmen - using music, relaxation,
visualization and games.
In Scandinavia more than 30,000 teachers, parents,
business trainers and managers have so far been through accelerated-learning workshops and
seminars run by co-author Vos.6
In New Zealand, all primary schools are using brightly
colored puzzles and games to learn elementary mathematics. And managers from a wide range
of businesses are learning in one day how to prepare a complete marketing plan with the
Accelerated Planning Technique.7
At Cambridge College in Massachusetts, teachers are
gaining a Masters Degree in education after only two semesters, including a five-week
summer "intensive" that involves them directly in integrative accelerated
learning techniques. Better still, they are seeing modeled in the classroom the techniques
they're absorbing to earn their degree in record time.8
Some of the new techniques go by a variety of names:
suggestopedia, neuro linguistic programming and integrative accelerated learning. But the
best all combine three things: they're fun, fast and fulfilling. And the best involve
relaxation, action, stimulation, emotion and enjoyment.
Says outstanding West Australian teacher and seminar
leader Glenn Capelli: "Forget all the jargon. Forget all the big names. What we're
really coming to grips with can be summed up in two words: true learning."9
Says British-born, Liechtenstein-based educational
psychologist Tony Stockwell: "We now know that to learn anything fast and effectively
you have to see it, hear it and feel it."10
Later we'll look at using the world as our classroom.
But obviously much education will continue to revolve around schools, colleges and company
training seminars.
And from our own research around the world, and
practice in schools, colleges and business, all good training and educational programs
involve six key principles. As a lifelong learner of any age, you'll learn quicker, faster
and easier if all six are organized brilliantly by a teacher who is an involver -
not a lecturer - who, acting as a facilitator, orchestrates these factors:
1. The best learning "state";
Contents Page Preface
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