Study Technology Testimonials
Study Technology Programme Sudan January 2003
Council for International Peoples Friendship
First of all, I would like to thank Applied
Scholastics International represented in Lord Duncan McNair and all
supervisors with him for giving us this rich and great chance to
learn Study Technology.
Secondly, I would like to say that, I first of
all thought that this study is how to teach others, if they are
students, English Language then after the first day I realised that
it’s the method of teaching students how to learn. At the moment I
haven’t any students to teach but when I finished my course I
discovered that this course is to learn how to survive and learn and
this makes life easier.
So I think the main thing which I gained from
this course how I can choose my life in the way which I like,
because the thing that is absent is that we have the ability to
choose what we want, just with a simple recognition that we can
study any subject.

I think this course is full enough with means,
data and information which before I was not aware of, but now I have
ability to see the smallest and simplest point blocking my way and I
am completely ready to complete any course using this Tech
(Technology). And finally I would like to thank the excellent
supervisors who dealt with us with patience.
H K
Faculty of Education University of Khartoum
In spite of the fact that I’m in the field of
education, I have a deep feeling I need to know and to learn more
and more about how to teach and how to cure the different barriers
to learning that may happen to my students.
Fortunately, this course which has given us a
chance, which I hope may now be repeated, helped me to increase my
awareness in the field of education and explained some phenomena
that have happened to me before in my study and my work life, and I
hope to put what I have already learned into action.
Thank you very much
H S I
Sudan Academy for Administrative Sciences,
Khartoum
Learning and studying are continuous processes.
Mankind has to keep himself in close contact with the field of
learning and studying in order to acquire new ideas, new techniques,
new skills, knowledge and finally know how to change his attitude.
In these days everyone is aware of this fact, but
very few are lucky to have this golden chance. I am one of those
very lucky ones.
I attended this course with the assumption I knew
a lot of English. But from the first day I came to know that I only
know very little English and very little, if any, Study Technology.
The wonderful thing is that, during this course I
came to know a lot compared to what I actually knew before. Many
more words, much looking up words in the dictionary, clearing words,
new techniques of learning that avoid pitfalls ahead, as well as
remedies for lack of mass, and also pictures, movies,
demonstrations, clay demos, sketching and demo kits. Each of these
methods is an art in itself.
The valuable asset I have attained from this
course is the courage, the confidence I have developed in myself,
which remains as a factor helping me to push forward and succeed in
my endeavour.
I am certain and I am confident that my
performance after this course will be better and more positive than
before.
A O A
University of Juba
One of the outstanding things I have learned from
the course so far is the relationship between the student's grudges
against the teachers and the institution of learning, and his
eventual departure; a misunderstood words leads to a “blackout” –
blankness of the memory – and this leads the student to
self-isolation (morally) from both the teachers, the subject taught
by a teacher, the teacher and the institution. He eventually creates
a justification, develops dislike for all the three and this leads
to the loss of interest in the subject and, of course a failure in
the exams, or to departure even before the exams.
Almost all students who leave school before the
end of their course have justification for their departure and ill
feelings against some teachers or a teacher. No student will admit
he has been dull.
D K M
University of Juba
The issue is misunderstood words. When I faced a
word that I did not understand I just passed it over. This was the
main cause of my suffering when I was student. As I carried on with
this course I compared my procedure with the new procedure of word
clearing. I found the technique of word clearing is far better than
my previous one. My old style would lead to misunderstanding of a
text.
The false data in my life: I heard much verbal
data when I made discussion with friends. They may prove my data is
wrong. So I must test every data I obtain to its source to make sure
it is reliable. These two are the very, very great wins I obtained
from this course.
I S I
Ahfad University for Women
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I am now a different person than I was three
days ago. I feel bright and have great confidence in myself. I
also feel more energetic; I feel that I can read any book, study
any article and, most important, UNDERSTAND any piece of work.
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Knowledge is not limited to so-called bright
people, there is no such thing. Anybody can be bright if one
adopts and uses the Study Technology, then one becomes
effective.
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Today, because I know how to know as a
teacher, no one can cheat me. I am now able to test knowingness
by doingness. I now demand practical application to theory
because theory alone does not satisfy me. I need DEMONSTRATION.
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I now have 3 keys to success
a) not every bright 'A' student is a LEARNER.
b) Dull students are not hopeless; in fact they could be
Super-students if they were taught HOW TO LEARN.
c) Clearing words & doing demonstration opens the gate to study
& education.
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I would like to finally thank each and every
one of the trainers for their great help and marvellous
participation and demonstrations. We learned from the books and
materials provided but most of all we learned from you because
you were models yourselves.
Thanks a lot.
S M G
Sudan Academy for Administrative Sciences,
Khartoum
This course explained to me why I would very
often study something, work on it for long hours and forget all
about it the minute I finish with it. Many subjects I studied in
school, did very well in and actually got high marks but at this
moment all is evaporated. This course taught me that the
misunderstood word lies at the heart of it. As I go back I realise
that as I was reading I never paid attention to words I
misunderstood.
I also discovered that some students’ hostility
or indifference towards a certain subject or towards their
institution is because they are frustrated because they did not
understand a word.
This course made me revise my attitude both as a
learner and as a teacher, and I hope I shall be able to perform
better both as a teacher to others and as a learner myself.
W B M S
Sudan Academy for Administrative Sciences,
Khartoum
I think that what I have learnt during the last
couple of days in the Study Tech Programme is not only unique but
also of paramount importance to the development and promotion of my
career, my family, my institution and my country as a whole.
W M K F
Juba University
Broadly speaking the course successfully achieved
its end goal. Then I could say without falter that I have benefited
a lot, and so have my colleagues. But the big question will still
remain, and that is: To what extent will this organisation proceed
further rendering such valuable courses?
To me it has become now a necessity that our
institutions have to have such courses yearly without fail.
B D C
Ahfad University for Women
When I was writing my Ph.D Thesis I used a
questionnaire as a method of data collection. I did not have enough
knowledge about statistics and have never studied it, I am not even
good in mathematics. At first I tried to ask some people who teach
Math and Statistics, friends and colleagues who used this method,
but I got nowhere. They only provided comments on my work, which I
did not really understand. Some offered to analyse the data in the
computer and give me the results, but again I will not be able to
write a discussion for these results.
So, I decided to study statistics, I brought
books, computer programmes and manuals. I spent a whole year
studying them on my own. Then I went through the questionnaire
collecting data, classifying it and then analysing it. This way I
had hold of senior data and used it to get the best results.
A M A B
Gezira University
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Knowledge of study barriers and how to solve
each barrier
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Coaching weak students and how to check out
points of success in order to make progress.
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How to demonstrate in order to make a link
between ideas and deeds practically (doingness)
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What are the effective points to be
considered when planning a lesson.
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I learned how to learn and how to help my
students learn.
A R E
University of Gezira
The course made me aware about matters concerning
Study Technology that benefit me very much, like barriers to study
and the misunderstood word. I am very satisfied about that. Thank
you all supervisors.
G A G
Ahfad University for Women
I used to be happy always about my performance as
an educator. That comes from the comments of my students. I think my
students will be much brighter as I instruct them on the Study
Technology. I myself discovered how many words I misunderstood. I
hope it is not too late to teach the right way from now on.
S W
Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific
Research
When I heard about that term Study Technology the
first time I met Lord McNair I got interested. But it wasn’t clear
to me whether I would really benefit from such a course, taking into
consideration the time I would lose at the expense of my work and
administrative responsibilities.
But now I can really state that I do not regret
it. It really worth this time spent, perhaps more. Although I have
been trained as a teacher and had a long experience in teaching at
the General School and the university levels and training teachers
and university staff members, I really feel I have got something new
which would help me, studying myself, developing my skills in
teaching. Moreover, it is a human methodology needed for any
situation anywhere, but especially here in the Sudan.
A B A G B
Afhad University for Women
The course was useful for me and I gained a lot
from it because it helped me to understand and interpret different
behaviours that I had in the past, but did not know from where they
came, but after I came to know the difficulties that the student can
face if she/he goes past a misunderstood word, I found the reason
for those behaviours.
Second thing is, I learned a proper way to clear
a word, because in the past I would just try to find the meaning of
that word without putting it in sentences and this explains why I
used to forget its meaning after a while. But I know I got the right
way to clear the word which will help me to remember the meanings in
the future.
N S E E
Sudan Academy for Administrative Sciences,
Khartoum
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I feel greatly indebted to the group of
scholars. They are extremely helpful, knowledgeable and
invaluable.
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The course is very interesting and quite
important. It drew my attention to many misunderstoods in life,
now I know how to clear those.
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I think the course should be compulsory for
every teacher and every parent. Hence all misunderstoods will be
eradicated from our world.
S K E
University of Khartoum
I’m very happy and I am feeling that this is the
first time or I could say the first step of knowing the right way to
learn.
Only now do I know well that I did not know
anything before about How To Learn and the big mystery of how to
study. We misunderstood the subject of study and we taught the
subjects to our students in the wrong way because we started off
wrong, and continued going wrong.
So I hope from the time of finishing this course
to try to continue to follow the Study Tech procedure because of the
benefits to myself and my life and my students.
At the end of this I thank very much the staff
who taught us how to start right, to go right, to finish right.
With best wishes.
I A G
Khartoum University
If I have any wins it would be a fresh awareness
of the value and also the trickiness of words. I have always
maintained (and told students of English) that unless a word is
fully known in all its senses, through wide reading, one has no
right to think it “understood”. Superficial, partial understanding
of a word's meaning isn’t enough.
On fresh reading there should be fresh consulting
of a dictionary. What this work had taught me was that I myself was
in dire need to look up hundreds of words I once deemed fully
“understood”. It has planted in me a “suspicion complex” of words
and meaning that I will try my best to impart to my students.
N A A
Juba University
Really I gained so many skills and I feel my
professional skills have been furthered by attending this course. So
many examples can be given, but in summary I think my way of study
and of teaching is affected dramatically after this course.
Z-A H
Sudan Academy for Administrative Sciences,
Khartoum
This course helped me to know why we study and
what are the major barriers to study.
Understanding words through the process of word
clearing. The two phenomena of misunderstood words. How to use the
dictionary and the recommended dictionaries. The using of
demonstration in teaching and learning is of vital importance and
very interesting. The different methods of word clearing are
important and interesting too.
To conclude, the course of Study Technology is a
great course as far as the course objectives, design, materials,
contents, duration, time, place, participation are concerned.
A M A A
University of Juba
Without much ado, when I started this course I
found a lot of good things. These are things I used to put to one
side, but they turned to be an essential part of any successful
doingness. The area of how to clear misunderstood words has been
well illustrated and the method well designed and made simple. To
me, every step I learned was a big win. It is terrific to come
across skillful educators who, I hope, will enrich our knowledge and
improve our educational perception and, above all, our 'blankness'.
Right from Day One I found myself moving up the stream with all
determination enjoying each and every part of the course.
A C O
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