Educator and humanitarian L. Ron Hubbard began his research into the field of study and education in the 1920's, in Guam, noticing what worked and what didn't. While assisting students in an exacting training programme in the 1960s, he did extensive research and became aware of the absence of any systematic research and methodology on the subject of study itself. He accelerated and concluded his own investigation into how people learn and the difficulties they encounter in the process, eventually identifying the primary reasons people have any difficulty studying or learning.

From these discoveries, he went on to develop

• methods a student can use to effectively study any subject for real understanding
• methods a teacher can employ to effectively teach any subject for real understanding
• ways to avoid the primary causes of study difficulties
• exactly how to identify and resolve study trouble when it does occur.

This organised body of study methods became known as Study Technology, the first subject which actually teaches one how to learn.

Consider what you, the reader, would be like if you understood all the subjects you had studied and could use all the information - maths, grammar, music, photography, physics, and so on. Or, at the very least, were completely confident that you could pick up and study any subject and be able to apply that knowledge straight away.

Greenfields students have that opportunity.

In an article written in 1950, Mr. Hubbard said:

"An educational program[me] which begins with the child's parents, progresses through kindergarten and grade school, through high school and into college and preserves at every step the individuality, the native ambitions, intelligence, abilities and dynamics of the individual, is the best bastion against not only mediocrity but against any and all enemies of mankind."

Greenfields School owes a debt of gratitude to Mr. Hubbard, whose extensive writings on education have guided our work in education and provide fundamental guidelines and policy for the schools in their approach to teaching, learning and administration.

For more information on L. Ron Hubbard please visit the Applied Scholastics Website section on L. Ron Hubbard.