Accelerated Learning for the 21st Century: The Six-Step Plan to Unlock Your Master-Mind

Accelerated Learning into the 21st Century contains a simple but proven plan that delivers the one key skill that every working person, every parent and student must master, and every teacher should teach: it's learning how to learn. The theory of eight multiple intelligences (linguistic, logical-mathematical, visual-spatial, kinesthetic, musical, interpersonal, intrapersonal, and naturalist) developed by Howard Gardner at Harvard University provides a foundation for the six-step MASTER-Mind system to facilitate learning (an acronym for Mind, Acquire, Search, Trigger, Exhibit, and Review), and is enhanced by the latest findings on the value of emotion and memory on the process of learning.

Combined with motivational stories of success applying these principles, and putting forth a clear vision of how the United States can dramatically improve the education system to remain competitive in the next century, Accelerated Learning into the 21st Century is a dynamic tool for self-improvement by individuals as diverse as schoolchildren and corporate executives.

We live in an era when the unprecedented speed of change means: The only certainty is uncertainty; you can't predict what skills will be useful in ten years time; in most professions knowledge is doubling every two or three years; and no job is forever—so being employable means being flexible and retraining regularly.

Accelerated Learning into the 21st Century contains a simple but proven plan that delivers the one key skill that every working person, every parent and student must master, and every teacher should teach: it's learning how to learn. The theory of eight multiple intelligences (linguistic, logical-mathematical, visual-spatial, kinesthetic, musical, interpersonal, intrapersonal, and naturalist) developed by Howard Gardner at Harvard University provides a foundation for the six-step MASTER-Mind system to facilitate learning (an acronym for Mind, Acquire, Search, Trigger, Exhibit, and Review), and is enhanced by the latest findings on the value of emotion and memory on the process of learning.

Combined with motivational stories of success applying these principles, and putting forth a clear vision of how the United States can dramatically improve the education system to remain competitive in the next century, Accelerated Learning into the 21st Century is a dynamic tool for self-improvement by individuals as diverse as schoolchildren and corporate executives.

Library Journal

Accelerated learning is a multisensory, multidimensional method of instruction designed for easy and quick acquisition and retention of information. This revised edition comes a decade after the first primer by Rose and Nicholl, owners of Accelerated Learning Systems, an international organization that develops and markets educational programs. They introduce accelerated learning techniques in an easy-to-follow, six-step plan, discussing how the plan can be applied to any subject and then showing how these skills can be used specifically in foreign-language learning. Techniques for analytical and critical thinking and the use of music as an aid to learning are also discussed. Like Sheila Ostrander and Lynn Schoeder (authors of best-selling titles such as Superlearning 2000, Delcorte, 1994) and other proponents, the authors promote a vision for educational and job training reform. A good overview, this is recommended for public libraries.-Lucille M. Boone, San Jose P.L., Cal.

Colin Rose is founder and chairman of Accelerated Learning Systems, and consults with many universities and corporations such as Motorola, Xerox, and IBM. He lectures frequently at conferences and symposiums across the globe. In the United Kingdom he is working at a government level to set up a national network of centers for parent education and is a member of the steering committee of the Learning Society, a collaborative undertaking of the British government, the Royal Society for the Arts, and industry. He lives in England.

Malcolm J. Nicholl is president of Accelerated Learning Systems, Inc., of Carlsbad, California. A longtime business partner of Colin Rose, he is also a former international journalist whose career included a two-year stint as Belfast bureau chief for The London Daily Mirror. He is author of several books in the business and health fields, and is a frequent guest on television and radio shows. He lives in Rancho Santa Fe, California.