Study Technology

<p>Study Technology, also called Study Tech, is a <a href="/facts/Teaching_method/tjADvYgf">teaching method</a> codified by <a href="/facts/L._Ron_Hubbard/s3h0I2wy">L. Ron Hubbard</a>, founder of <a href="/facts/Scientology/6U2NeyaG">Scientology</a>. Study Technology is used by Scientologists in their training, and it is also marketed outside the <a href="/facts/Church_of_Scientology/7ymYWP74">Church of Scientology</a> through its affiliated corporation <a href="/facts/Applied_Scholastics/zgEn6EGg">Applied Scholastics</a>, which presents Study Tech as a <a href="/facts/Secular/uCj9a25U">secular</a> teaching method for any student or topic. However, the method has many critics, including former teachers, claiming that Study Technology and its associated schools are intrinsically linked with religious aspects of Scientology.
</p><p>Hubbard wrote in a <a href="/facts/Hubbard_Communications_Office_Policy_Letter/h7J0fA7y">policy letter</a> in 1972 that "Study Tech is our primary bridge to Society." Most Study Tech books include a two-page biography of Hubbard that does not mention his role in creating Scientology. Religious scholar <a href="/facts/J._Gordon_Melton/PhjlaYbY">J. Gordon Melton</a> said that Hubbard wrote the Study Tech materials to help people who joined Scientology with a low level of <a href="/facts/Literacy/GpXB3QbJ">literacy</a>, and that the materials are used within the Church of Scientology “not to proselytize for the religion but to teach people how to read.”
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Study Technology