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We live in a world where ‘education' and the accumulation of skills have assumed fanatical proportions. We tch tch at heavy school bags, but continue putting noses to the grindstone. Always in the hope of the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. Except, that in the first decade of the 2000's the way to that pot is no luminescent rainbow. And the sad part is, it needn't be so. The proof of the pudding -- the training experience of companies including U.S.A.-based AT & T's National Product Training Centre and Audi, IBM and Seimens in Germany; Pentagon's Institute of Defense Analysis; and teacher Charles Gritton's efforts in a Des Moines ghetto school that became a case study of success.

Putting the ‘no pain, no gain' credo of learning to shame is the concept of accelerated learning, perhaps more famous as ‘superlearning' following breakthroughs made by Sheila Ostrander, Lynn Schroeder and Nancy Ostrander since the 1970's. However, the ball was actually set rolling about a......

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