Geniuses Have To Have Thick Skins To Survive
How Many Geniuses Did You Know?
In a world of six billion, almost three-hundred million in the U.S. alone, how many people do you get to know that change learning for millions?
Evelyn Wood was a knock-out, she created a system that graduated two million, including the White house staff of Presidents Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon and Carter.
She was our business associate, mentor and personal guru. Her name today is still identified with her creation - speed reading. What is more important, her major contributions: using a pacer to guide our eyes, chunking strategies, and the use of peripheral-vision in reading, are accepted internationally as “obvious”, and not-subject-to-questioning.
1. “Was it all peaches-and-cream”, she just announced her revolution and all the professionals in reading said, “Sure, she’s right, hooray!”?”
It sure seems that way in hind sight, but the reality was that 95% of colleges professors including the deans of the Teaching Schools, thought she was a fraud, out to grab as much loot as possible, and slide out of town before the tar-and-feathers. The head of Columbia University School of Education, Ruth Strang, told us that she would like to “cast-the-first-stone”, or apartments for rent all bills paid in san antonio in the alternative, have *Evelyn Wood run out of town on the proverbial “rail”.
Educators did not react kindly to someone who told them in the kindest of tones, that they were directly responsible for kids and adults hating-to-read, and for the abysmally low test scores in reading by students in the U.S.
2. “Did Evelyn Wood present the evidence to prove her system was http://financeshop.org/en/search-Practice_Management.html best?”
Have you ever tried to offer logic and reason to a burning-fire? It’s best to just do your thing and ignore the sarcasm and skepticism by people who have been “emotionally (amygdala) hijacked”. We went directly to parents of kids in private schools, and they said, ” Yes, help our kids to stop hating Недвижимость Москва снять school.”
Next, we traveled to colleges and professional schools nationally, and got the students to sit for Evelyn’s speed reading course because they just couldn’t keep up with their class assignments. Many of them admitted studying till 3 AM, popping pills to stay awake, and were still on the verge of “dropping-out” because they just read too slowly for university level study. Thousands graduated from her Evelyn Wood reading program learning three-times faster, with the same comprehension or better. Students from Harvard, Yale, and Princeton, and fifty more of the most prestigious universities in the U. S. took money out of their own pockets to enjoy benefits their schools would not offer - reading three books, articles or reports in the time others "hospital advertising" could only hope to read and remember - a single one.
3. “What about adults?”
We trained lawyers, doctors and engineers in Evelyn Wood’s strategies at their own offices (in groups of 25), and soon had graduated thousands of professionals who were using speed reading in their practices.
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