Oral input to infants
can include several dozen
to several hundred
new phrases per day.
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PETERSON READING
Our electronic recordings provide
continuing high-rate input.
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Peterson Reading inputs
at the rate of
10,000 to 12,000
words per hour.
4,000 to 5000
phrases per hour.
500 hours of input
equals 5 million words
equals 2 million phrases.
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MAJOR PROBLEM
Q.
Why do so many persons
claim that the brain
learns more slowly
after the first few months
or age two?
A.
THE RATE OF
ORAL INPUT SLOWS
Here are some
possible reasons why:
1.
Child becomes
less dependent on parent.
2.
Child learns
to crawl and walk away.
3.
Parents reduce
the time they
hold the child.
4.
Child has less contact
with parents and phrases.
5.
Parent returns
to older children.
6.
Parent may have
another baby.
7.
Parent returns to work.
Any of the above
can make
the learning rate
drop precipitously.
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The ultimate resource:
student intelligence
Students have a different
but narrow view of culture.
Uninformed children
can become fixated
on this narrow range of ideas.
The challenge is to develop
a communication culture to
enhance a sense of belonging
and community.
Students must learn
to communicate
with cultures
far removed from past experiences.
Students need discernment skills
to deal
with misconceptions,
pretenses and prejudices.
Shakespeare involved his audience
in his plays.
In a similar sense we demand
that students actively participate,
physically and mentally.
Children must learn to conform
yet maintain a distinction
from others.
Children compare their
identities and similarities
with the personalities in history,
evaluating how they grew,
developed and died in terms of
our own comedy of errors.
Children learn to suspend
social and personal prejudice
and place prejudice
within the context of a larger whole.
Accelerated Thinking is studying
the values and assumptions
of other societies.
COST SUMMARY
IN 500 PERIODS.
In 500 periods student's
write an average
of 2500+ pages of notes
fast-writes and essays.
5000 of our pages consumed
half for text and notes
half for fast-writes or essays
2500 lessons
5 lessons per period
LOW MATERIALS COST
Materials and teacher training
cost $220.00 per student.
$.44 cents per period.
LOW TEACHER COSTS
A small fraction
of your current
hourly teacher costs.
More gains per dollar
than any program
we can find.