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Alright, so I have this guy who's my "tutor." Now, for some reason, that's a word I don't like.

Having to do with the point of this actual topic, however, I told him about PhotoReading, steps 1-5, and a rough outline of how it works. I think I would feel kind of ackward trying to teach this guy. . .who looks around 32-38ish PhotoReading when I'm 14. Believe me, it's best done on peers. Try telling a person twice your size to "imagine a tangerine."

Anyways, do you think I should try and get him into learning this? He was taking a few notes on it, as I could see, and was taking quite an interest in it, not necessarily because of the fact that I was using it to learn, but possibly because he was actually interested in the actual PhotoReading Whole Mind System.

Perfect luck that I would loose track of where my copy of the book is, and am fresh out of the personal learning course I never got. So. . .anyway!

This was the second session I've had with him. His name is Steven. Quite charming, and is more interested in my views and methods than my parents are, and has a MUCH higher positive outlook on things. He also doesn't keep a real tight grip on my teachers and communicating with them like my father does. Which is NICE!

Anyways - he's a really open minded person, and I think that learning the system may or may not be hard for him. It's really hard to tell. If he were to learn it, though, that'd really help him understand my ways, I suppose.

What does anyone think?

cool, go for it!
If he's interested, give him your photoreading book to read, and tell him about learning strategies. Maybe he'll want to invest some of his hard-earned tutoring-money into this.
He's sure to have a lot of uses for all those cool learning strategies.

see ya

Stefan

Why not give the photoreading advert link, and see if he's interested?

-Ramon http://razor.ramon.com

Why don't you see if he'll buy the tapes and let you borrow it to satisfy your curiosity about the difference in learning it from a book and learning it from tape. If he hummms at the price tell him LCS has a payment plan.

You might hint that 'older' people find it easier to learn from tapes since many of the don't feel that they have to learn anymore since they left school and the fact that it is such a different method of reading from what is taught at school... I'm generalising to give you an idea how to get around trying to teach him yourself. That is not to say that people from any age groups need to experience difficultly learning to PR by whatever method they choose.

If anyone shows interest in what you do it is usually easier to send them to where you learnt it... and say yes that where I learnt to do what I do.

Alex

Introduce him to this forum.

I can't imagine what you need a tutor for, Youngprer.

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Originally posted by Hel:
Introduce him to this forum.

I can't imagine what you need a tutor for, Youngprer.

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You'd be amazed at the careless mistakes I make with MATH. For some reason, over the past few years, I've grown extremely weak in the area of math. It puzzles me how I can't understand it. What my problem is, is that I usually make things way too complicated.

When recently adding and multiplying polynomials, I went nuts with the whole idea.

Besides that, however, it was my father's idea. I believe either the Part 2 of Can Jedi PhotoRead, or the Top Names topic has a comment from that I posted last night, talking about how I've only recently started to really tug hard on grades, and learn well in school.

And this guy, some of the stuff I talk about is beyond him. Mostly stuff I've learned about psychology, the human mind, dreams, etc. Most of the books I've EVER PhotoRead have to do with psychological reactions, brain activities, and brain functions.

We've only had two sessions and each time, he's said twice to my parents:

"Yeah. Man. . .I'm real impressed."

Other things while talking to my mom:

"Yeah, it's not a matter of brain capability at all. I'll tell you somethin' about this guy, though. Just from what I've seen. . .he is constantly just rocketing toward stuff. His only problem is he needs to just start bein' more careful. He's just careless at times."

And I always get this strange feeling I sound about twice as intelligent as all of his other students.

This entire school year, I've been having problems with math, and history. My math teacher partly blames the cirriculum, but mostly blames the kids. Even though nearly all of them are failing the class, and will fail the class for the year. (That might include even me.)

History, for some reason, has been an incredible problem. I know a lot of the things, but the assignments dig in the wound of my greatest weakness rganization. Long story short: the assignments require great grades in order to successfully pass. Thus, bringing a stuggling grade up from the middle of the year is absolute hell.

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And I always get this strange feeling I sound about twice as intelligent as all of his other students.

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That's probably because you are. So it's not a strange feeling, but realistic. Is this a group tutoring kind of arrangement? Do you find it helps you? I am surprised that history is a problem for you, with your fantastic reading abilities, and I have a feeling you have a pretty good memory. When are exams?

Sounds like it time to branch out in your PR subjects youngprer. You've identified your weaknesses. Now PR and direct learn the skills you need. Oranization, time management. Make sure that the material contains more than just the planning stages. It's implementing the plan that gets the results.

Maybe PR some material on writing for different purposes too. I'm just guessing that there is something more than you organizing abilities here. I'm one of those people that believes that nothing is hard to learn. There are just different methods for teaching, and they have different efficiencies with different people.

Good luck

Oh boy Youngprer,I know what you are going through. In my 4 years of high school I had 11 english teachers and one entire semester none. In the last year they finally secured one that that didn't suffer a nervous breakdown. Whole school had to buckle down and catch up.

The school actually failed to meet the education requirements. We had to pass in 5 subjects and 2 electives.

English.. we barely made it
Math the only subject we were any good at... the school produced a lot of accountants.
Science. only one science teacher and he didn't teach my class.
Art... no art teacher
PE... no PE teacher.
Music.. we didnt even have classes for that
They gave us all a passing grade LOL
for electives most did agriculture... I studied an extra subject via correspondance... man it was freezing sitting outside in winter doing my lessons.

Lucky it never snowed in that part of the country but the wind chill factor was about 4 degree celcius just above freezing. The commerce class had the locker room..that was about 6 foot by 6 foot...

Good luck with your studies
Alex

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That's probably because you are. So it's not a strange feeling, but realistic. Is this a group tutoring kind of arrangement? Do you find it helps you? I am surprised that history is a problem for you, with your fantastic reading abilities, and I have a feeling you have a pretty good memory. When are exams?

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Oh, history. . .as far as the knowledge goes, it's not difficult at all. It's the assignments that get me. HEAVY, HEAVY detail. However, for off of the bat memory, without any notes, I'm probably at the top of the class.

As for me being more intelligent than his other students, it might be realistic, but I must never assume that it is even close to accurate.

He's part of a "tutoring agency" or something. I'm not really completely sure, but this guy is also a teacher, and a athletics coach at some of the local schools around here. He's top notch compared to the horrid teaching at my normal school.