As someone who is interested in taking (or already taking) speed learning lessons, don’t you think it’s just right that you know its history and evolution?
Speed learning is one of the most useful scientific or psychological discoveries in recent years. And it actually has a very interesting history, not to mention a very long evolution.
When Bulgarian psychotherapist Georgi Lozanov first introduced “Suggestopedia” (Speed Learning’ predecessor) in the late 1960s, a lot of the members of the medical and teaching community raised their eyebrows.
It was considered a “pseudo- science” because it was first developed as a teaching method wherein you teach a person a certain method by simply suggesting or making them believe that it works.
Suggestopedia was used to teach a group of kids about language. Their experiment proved to be successful when these students started learning five times faster with this new teaching method.
Now, after 10 years when it was first developed, it reached US soil and it was modified and it then turned into speed learning or accelerated learning.
Speed learning is actually first and more popularly known as “speed reading” before. And it is exactly what the name suggests. Through this method, a person is able to read and understand a book or document in a significantly faster rate.
After some time, speed reading branched out and more learning techniques were discovered and developed.
Recent studies and discoveries too about the human brain and how it works have helped catapult speed learning into the mainstream scene.
Despite its shaky start, speed learning has really proved to be a big breakthrough. For years before its conception, psychologists and education professionals have been conducting many researches on what strategies to use to improve a person’s ability to learn and remember. And well now, speed learning has provided them (and us) an answer.
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