Forums IMPORTANT: PLEASE READ PhotoReading, Memory Optimizer Junior Research Paper Help

The good ole Research Paper is upon me. I want to do my paper along the lines of mind expansion, psychic powers, hypnosis, lucid dreaming, and of course PR(all that great stuff). I want to do this topic because it is so interesting but, is it a researchable and opinion able topic? If so...what type of opinions can I create? Should I abandon this topic because of it's difficulty? Anyone Please Help.

P.S. I've come up w/ a few ideas:
1) That there is a hidden potential uptapped by humans.

2) Debunking the 10% myth of the human brain.

The problem with Photoreading as the topic of a research paper is that it will be very difficult to come by scientifically accurate reports that would be accepted as supporting evidence. I doubt all that much formal research has been done on the subject, though it's worth a shot.

The untapped potential of the human brain is good but a bit broad, same with the 10% idea. Talk to your teacher, work together to find out what is best.

Now if you were doing a doctoral thesis, you would have the time and resources to conduct your own study....

Check out this post... http://www.learningstrategies.com/forum/ubb/Archives/Archive-000008/HTML/20001203-8-000054.html

Thanks. But that is really all the research I can find on photoreading. I may have to do a different topic. Anyone have any ideas. I want to do something very interesting and unique (but that is still doable) THANKS.

Well, then do it on accelerated learning involving MI (multiple intelligences). This way you could incorporate paraliminal technology & PhRing along w/ lots of other interesting info.

Don't forget to use Jose Silva b/c he was working in this field back in the 1940's & 50's.

Also answer this question in your paper:

Why hasn't accelerated learning caught on like wild fire in all the public school systems in this country?

It's easy to do the research, but it will take some indepth thinking to put together an understanding why it is not used more. It is very easy to speak to students in college preparing to teach who know little or nothing about accelerated learning & MI.

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It is a great idea! thanks. I couldn't find anything on Joe Silva that doesn't play soccer or baseball. Can you point me towards something?

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I don't see where to start researching it. Indepth thought shouldn't be a problem, it's the research I'm having trouble with.
Can you point me to a few sites? It's just I'm having trouble finding hard research evidence that I can cite, and use. (I'm using the articles in the PhotoReading Textbook thing on parm and Photo reading, ARe these good?)
THANKS!!!

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Margaret, what is your profession? You said in a Nat. Brilliance post months ago that you didn't like your job, but you've also mentioned a great many educational anecdotes. Also something about creating workshops, was it?

Why hasn't accelerated learning caught on like wild fire in all the public school systems in this country?

an EXCELLENT question.

A further thought occurs... where are all the educators on this discussion forum?...our discussions all focus around learning after all. hmmm.

I've had various teachers throughout my formative years try to teach bits and pieces of accelerated learning, but I think they themselves do not have a confident grasp of the material, and also the students don't take things that seriously. I remember thinking, "heck, I don't need that childish crap, it's too much work." And the problem is that at first it does seem a bit tough, because it is so foreign. If such things had been introduced at an earlier age, I don't think the barriers would have been in place. You really have to start young, when the cloud of doubt doesn't overshadow all the positive gains that accelerated learning has to offer. Teachers trying to tell me their way was better only annoyed me and made me look down on these processes, and these eariler misconceptions were a roadblock that I had to break down later when I decided for myself that I wanted what was being offered. But still I have to discover on my own without any great support from the educators that surround me.

That was my rant for today.

Margaret, if you can, please direct me towards places for research.