Lozanov, 1978...
I would like to think that we have come an awful long way since 1978, in understanding memory and how people can use it for improving the quality of life...
Have you come across Paul Scheele and PhotoReading? If you're interested in extraordinary statistics for rapid reading and memorising, you can have a rich harvest there. I have worked with him and like him as a person and respect him enormously as a thinker and colleague, and everyone who takes his courses is thrilled afterwards and says it was worth the money: but I haven't seen enormous differences in the life skills of those I know who've taken the course.
Acquiring knowledge can be useful, but it isn't the same thing as learning for life; and it can even have the opposite effect, that the individual can become emotionally and even intellectually paralysed by information overflow.
In the West at least, the great emphasis nowadays is not on learning information, but on learning to learn - because the stuff you learn nowadays is out of date in a few years... The other major area of development is emotional competence - rather than the IQ, people talk now more about the EQ, the emotional quotient...
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