Run Katie Run!

Everyone’s seen the bonkers Cruise $cientology cult video – poor Suri doesn’t need that kind of “help” !!!

Um…I taught in a school that used Ron Hubbard’s books on study. The books taught the students to look up words they didn’t understand, to study for application and not just for a grade, and to do drawings or demonstrations to aid understanding of principles that were complicated. Apart from the books on study, the students used standard text books like everyone else but moving at their own speed on individualized programs. There weren’t any courses on Scientology at the school. People who wish to study Scientology do so at a Scientology organization, not a school.

Hey, “osa handlers”! Thomas is right.The learning techniques do work quite well, and have been proven to work over and over again. For someone to besmirch it for any reason other than empirical knowledge is just foolish. Come on, just admit that you really don’t know much about it, but are attacking it for other reasons, and you will feel better about yourself and you will be expressing your self much more honestly! To assume that Thomas is from the OSA is a little paranoid, isn’t it? If they did not work, why are these schools so successful, and students continue to thrive there?

Scientology education is a thinly disguised veil for Scientology brainwashing, accepting all of Hubbard’s dictates as true, or facing security checking if doubt creeps in.

Hubbard’s appropriation of the 19th Century “dictionary method” — looking up words in a dictionary — merely slows contextual learning. For example, Hubbard himself never learned to read or speak a foreign language although he got very poor grades in German, in his two years of college before flunking out.

Language in scientology is used as a bait and switch. The dictionary definition of words is used as bait for understanding/truth, and switched to become justification for slavish following.

This mirrors the cult of scientology in general, where members believe they follow a process where they are seeking enlightenment, yet are drawn deeper into a dark place of unquestioning following, where all critical thinking and doubt about Hubbard must be deleted, along with the “reactive mind.”

One more thing Steve, after seeing the dishonest and shady way you OSA staff Scientologists conduct yourselves I’d rather have my kids hang out with crack dealers.

“For someone to besmirch it for any reason other than empirical knowledge is just foolish.”

My empirical knowledge says that Scientology seems to mutate people into compulsive liars, some of the very last kind of people that should be allowed to influence children.

Steve,

So what- you helped a friend study and pass a test. First of all, that is purely anectdotal evidence, not scientific. Second of all, a glossary (vocabulary) is a standard way of studying for tests – nothing special at all. Any 6th grader knows that. Of course it would take a scientologist to say it is some special technology “word clear.” That’s just misleading.

Steve knows a lot about “technology” even though he doesn’t understand that his anecdotal evidence that sounds a lot like marketing testimonials, or the scientific method. Scientology will never allow any of it’s results to be tested by any indepedent, psychologists tried back in the 60′s and suddenly became L Ron’s enemies when he failed miserably to prove any of his claims. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clear_(Scientology)
In August 1950, amidst the success of Dianetics, Hubbard held a demonstration in Los Angeles’ Shrine Auditorium where he presented a young woman called Sonya Bianca (a pseudonym) to a large audience including many reporters and photographers as ‘the world’s first Clear.’ However, despite Hubbard’s claim that she had “full and perfect recall of every moment of her life”, Bianca proved unable to answer questions from the audience testing her memory and analytical abilities, including the question of the color of Hubbard’s tie. Hubbard explained Bianca’s failure to display her promised powers of recall to the audience by saying that he had used the word “now” in calling her to the stage, and thus inadvertently froze her in “present time,” which blocked her abilities.[8][9]

I was raised in a scientologist home and it greatly damaged my academic performance. Thinking outside the box is greatly discouraged and questioning anything Hubbard wrote is “out ethics”. This often resulted in severe punishment even though I was only a small kid. If you are a parent thinking of sending your child to a school that uses scientology “study tech”, I beg you to reconsider. Question their flashy PR and google scientology to read BOTH sides of the debate.