Teaching Life Long Learning

Life-long learning has been discovered by hundredslearning how to read efficiently, reduce excess
of thousands of people, in the U.S. and elsewhere,stress, and taking a long, hard, look at life. It was
wanting improved education and the necessaryalso life-changing for me, as prisoners challenged
educational tools for success. One of the mostvirtually every concept that didn't fit into their
popular of these courses is speed reading. Ieveryday negative life experiences. It made me a
discovered this while teaching reading and studymuch stronger teacher.
skills in the southwest US.In 1985 I was invited to teach multiple classes on
After two years of teaching these specializeddifferent islands in Hawaii. The great weather,
speedreading classes, colleges and Universities inoutstanding views of the Pacific and ancient
Texas, New Mexico, Colorado, California, Oregon,history, made my experience of teaching
Nevada, Arizona and Hawaii requested me tospeedreading classes, to students of several
teach classes for them. Private corporationsethnic backgrounds such a phenomenal experience
wanted courses of stress-management plusthat I moved to Maui for a year.
speed reading for their executives and salesAs a teacher of educational success tools, study
personnel.skills, and loving being a traveler, the offer of
My experience was outstanding teaching livebeing affiliated with several colleges and
speed reading classes, business success courses,Universities from Florida to Hawaii, excited me.
and college study skills courses around the southIn Florida, for a wholistic health foundation, I
and southwest. Traveling from college todeveloped and taught specialized courses in speed
university and teaching weekend speed readingreading, remedial education, and developed of
seminars, or evening classes in study skills,educational tools which I later taught in other
provided a fantastic experience for me to meetparts of the country. Just for fun, I was able to
thousands of people in cities around the country.add methods of stress management, success
Students ranged in age from 7 years old to 91visualization, and other exciting techniques to
and from primary school through grad school andstimulate audiences that came from all over the
from many career fields. As time progressed Istate to meet me. After a short time I was able
implemented stress management and relaxationto add humor to some lectures to keep students
therapy along with the educational tools of speedstimulated to enjoy the learning experience.
reading and study skills. This made everyone,My teaching of classes in life-long learning was cut
including myself, essentially stress-free.short by surgical accidents in 1994 in Tampa,
After multiple successes with researching andFlorida , but from 1977 to 1993, I've enjoyed
teaching corporate programs, I was invited to findteaching over 8,000 people in the US. Since then
a cause and solution to the prison riots thatmy courses have been published in Beijing China,
occurred in 1980 in Santa Fe, New Mexico. I airedand the US and Mexico and shipped electronically
the results on public radio and was invited toand in printed form to 27 countries throughout
teach in a New Mexico prison, by the office ofthe world to those wanting improved education
then Governor Bruce King. In 1982 once a week,and the educational tools for success. The most
I taught a four-hour a method calledpopular of these courses is speed reading which
Future-Learning, which was later retitled as BeI've written books in English, Spanish, French,
Dynamic through Speed Reading and is nowGerman, Dutch and Chinese. All of this came from
available online at Twenty five students and stafffrom classes I have taught to eager students and
members had life changing experiences fromadults wanting a better life for themselves.