PLEASE - HANDLE ME GENTLY.

AFTER ALL. I'M A HARD WORKING

UNDER-FUNDED UNIVERSITY

STUDENT !

But in many cases this is not really true, mainly because he or she has NEVER learned HOW TO STUDY, and so is not actually qualified to be regarded as a Student.

There are two main aspects to the communication procedure known as "education".  The obvious one is "teaching".  But whilst huge stress is placed on teaching, little is done about the other aspect - "studying" - the factor which does most to make Students successful. and a Teacher's life a happy one.

Adherence to the "Rules of Study" depends on how well the Student knows "how" to study, and the real problem is that in the United Kingdom, very few schools have a subject called "Learning How To Learn" in their curriculum, and no knowledge of, or responsibility for, keeping to the Rules of Study !

When the rules of "Learning How To Learn" are properly grooved into Students at an early age, the role of the Teacher simplifies and changes to:

A) Ensuring that all the subject matter for the lesson / course is always immediately to hand in the form of books, diagrams, videos, lectures, models, demonstrations, pictures and the Teacher's own briefings, etc., plus,

B) Continuously ensuring that the individual Students all KNOW and APPLY the Rules of Study, to their individual class and home work - briefly as follows:

1) Before arriving at school or starting home work, Students should ensure that they have had sufficient sleep - "sufficient" being normally defined as 8 hours.

2) Before or on arrival for instruction or starting home work, Students should ensure that they have recently had a nourishing meal.

3) Students should NOT have taken alcohol in the 24 hours prior to starting class instruction or any other aspect of study, including home work, practical exercises, experiments and field studies, etc.

4) Irrespective of what lies they have been told about how drugs might support study or provide relief from too much study, Students should never take any addictive drugs - illicit or medical.   They ALL create irrationality.

5) Rather than spending hours & hours every day in the gym, on the sports field or on the local river, Students should take daily light exercise - such as walking.

6) VITALLY, Students should know, understand and always apply the three main "Barriers to Study" as follows;

a) They must know the difference between the "mass" and the "significance" of the data in the subject, consistently ensure that they are balanced, and especially that the "mass" of the subject is fully recognised and experienced as far as possible by the Student.

b) Students must ensure that "gradients" within the data they are learning, especially in relation to the execution of actions, are recognised, and that earlier steps or actions are fully understood and executed properly, BEFORE attempting to comprehend and execute each separate following step.

c) By far the greatest barrier to learning / study is the "Misunderstood Word" so that Students must be fully conversant with the whole range of Misunderstood Word phenomena & how they may be eradicated from any mis-comprehension they may have inadvertently adopted.

Failure to know, understand or apply the above Study Technology and Rules of Study are the root cause of 90% of College and University Student problems.

A Student who daily feels he or she is making progress does not worry about fee repayments, whether they will "pass", or how successful they will become.

The joy of comprehension defeats the so-called neurosis, psychosis and paranoia which can arise from: insufficient sleep, poor nourishment, hangovers and drug taking, the mistaking of the overwhelming amount of "significance" in many subjects for its "mass", the failure to respect and completely apply gradients, and especially the blankness which unknowingly going past and failing to detect misunderstood words creates in our memories of the subject - as well as life in general.

Whilst they obviously act as a strong adverse factor, it is not just the apparent hedonistic ambience of university life which ruins Student's confidence, success rate and so-called mental health.

It is their regular overall confusion and their slow or missing progress (because of their failure to know and apply Study Technology solutions to the "Barriers to Study") which is responsible for the increased incidence of "drop-outs" and suicidal thoughts.

But what really p*s*es-off this writer, is the fact that IF Deans, Professors and Lecturers would just come down off their high academic horses and simply apply the above down-to-earth Rules of Study, not only would drop-outs and suicides diminish, but teaching staff would have a far better career and a happier life.

In the United States, both illicit and prescribed youth drug usage generates gun-driven university massacres. Here in Britain, sex, booze, drugs and lack of sleep generate examination failures, drop-outs and suicides.

Unfortunately, it is university administrator's abject lack of stricter moral and ethical behaviour management and enforcement, and their regrettable application of psychiatry's damaging animal researched principles to human beings, which does most to stop the work done by teachers & students who seek to apply Study Technology.

Study Technology has existed for over 50 years & demonstrably succeeds like magic when applied. But it is today increasingly covertly suppressed by psychiatric education advisors who prefer to see Students "assisted" or "treated" by profitable daily pharmaceutical drug doses, instead of being granted easy natural comprehension for life, by FIRST LEARNING HOW TO LEARN !

But this suppressive addictive drugging MUST STOP,

and the truth about addiction and study must become fully known.

For further information or discussion, or to schedule a "Study Technology" or an "Addiction Recovery" lecture and debate on your premises, kindly contact:

E. Kenneth Eckersley, FCMI, FIOD, HonMPHMA(Int), HSDC, MABFDFE (Stockholm & Brussels),

Former UK Magistrate & Retired Justice of the Peace, 

C.E.O. Society for an Addiction Free Existence (SAFE)

a not-for-profit community support group founded in 1974.

E-mail: keneck@btinternet.com Phone: (01342) 811099.

Although learning is a natural phenomena,

"Study Technology" is needed to remove

the barriers which early 'in-family training' 

can impose on a majority of children.