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Originally posted by photoread2me:
Well, photoread4me. I gotta tell ya that Paul Scheele may be the creator of the photoreading but it is hard to say he is genius. He pretty much coined the terms that we use a lot into his terms.
I believe it was Buckminster Fuller who said
"Every child is born a genius" Yes society probably went a long way in teaching us we are not genius but Paul is paving the way to rediscover the genius within himself and has invited us to join him in self discovery of our Genius selves.
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"Photoreading"- I hear that the history of photofocus has been thousands of years and some people have used them before Paul Scheele invented.
Odd people in whe world do it naturally Paul figured out a way to teach it to others/
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"superread and dip"- more like scanning. He tries to use other term so that people won't be bored.
If you think that then you're probably not seeing it right. In superreading we are letting the mind read, scanning is only a copying device.
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Also in elementary and middle school, we were to do homework at the end of chapter problems. Isn't it same as superread and dip?
Lucky you had the textbooks. I never came across a textbook that had chapter problems at the end. School couldn't afford them. We had to meticulously copy what we needed to learn off the board. Frustrating for the teachers because they make great doors but lousy windows, we couldn't see what we were supposed to be writing and they couldn't clear the board to put the rest up during the lesson period. Shame to think everyone has access to the same level of education.
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"preview"- don't we all preview before we read books? Don't we all look at table contents?
Nope 90% don't. It's "havta read stuff makes no point to them to know da content,ya gotta start on page one anyway and read to the end of the book .... groan". 60% of those books are lucky to be even opened during the school year.
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"skiterring"- almost same as speedreading. Haven't we learned to read first sentence and the last sentence of paragraphs in school?
Nope again, you know of course that 60% of college graduates have less than a 9th grade reading skill. Part of the reason is they were never taught the basics of reading because many of the teachers don't know them either.
Reading is viewed as a skill you either can do or can't do and if you can't you have to work damned hard at it to catch keep up with the rest of the class or you're a laughing stock. So those that can't become very skilled at covering their disability. With the number of students in the class teacher don't have time to notice that the laggers are just suffering from an inability to read.
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"rapid reading"- come on! this is nothing but speedreading.
Wrong technique! Speed Reading is a constant pace throught the whole book no variation and done as fast as possible.
Rapid reading is the closest thing to regular reading in the PhotoReading system. Speed varies from photoreading speed, superreading, average reading speed and even analytical reading which is as slow as 90 words per minute. The reader adjust according to his or her requirement and parts of the book.
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All these techniques are no different from what we know in our life...
So, photoread4me, all he did was just put these old techniques into his "term."
There are many skills in the system that are based on sound reading skills. However you seem to be taking it for granted that everyone has had access to your privileged education.
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Anyway, it doesn't sound like he is genius.
photoread2me
Everyone is entitled to their opinion.
Alex.
[This message has been edited by Alex K. Viefhaus (edited May 18, 2004).]
