Applied Scholastics

Applied Scholastics International ( abbreviated ApS ) is a nonprofit organization, founded in 1972 in Florida. He currently headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri. He is in the field of education ( both of children and adults ) active.

ApS is known for the dissemination of devised by L. Ron Hubbard Study Tech learning technique. Hubbard is the founder and long-time leader of the Church of Scientology. Although ApS is legally independent of the Scientology organization, but is integrated through the association Association for Better Living and Education (ABLE ) firmly into the Scientology organization structure. Thus, staff and students (as in other Scientology facilities also ) of so-called ethics officers monitored meticulously record their findings and report to the competent Scientology branch which. Similarly, the auditing (a type -examination ) with an E-meter, ethics measures ( criminal penalties ) and other Scientology Indoktrinationsmethoden be carried out regularly in ApS facilities.

Study Technology

ApS and it licensed schools and private teachers work (literally: Study Technology ) according to the Study Technology with the help of books like Learning How To Learn, officially based on the works of L. Ron Hubbard. Although lacking in the content of these books direct allusions to Scientology itself, but can be many parallels to Scientology literature to prove.

Tenets of this methodology are:

• Illustration of learning content through demonstration at the original or by models made ​​of clay
• Compliance with a not too steep learning curve (literally gradient)
• Special attention to misunderstood words whose meaning is imprinted using a dictionary if necessary

These methods are applied very consistently, because according ApS lack of motivation, learning disorders and even Aufmerksamkeitsdefizit-/Hyperaktivitätsstörungen on false learning techniques are due.

Structure and distribution channels

The end user gets ApS services through a network of tutors taught that are licensed by ApS and pay fees to the competent regional office ApS. These teachers then apply Study Tech in her teaching work. Some of these cram schools do extensive advertising through leaflets and letters to public schools.

In Bjerndrup, Denmark ApS operates a private school along with boarding school called Sonderjyllands International Skole.

In the U.S. ApS operates a network of private schools under the Delphi Schools.

Applied Scholastics in German-speaking

In 1979, in Munich, the club center for individual and effective learning ( short TARGET ). As ApS he is formally independent of the Church of Scientology, but in Germany and Austria no longer occurs in appearance. Only in Switzerland, the company TARGET is still in use, while for Germany meanwhile Applied Scholastics Germany is responsible headquartered in Fuerth near Nuremberg. In September 2008, the Protection of the Constitution of the State of Baden- Wuerttemberg warned of the Offered by ApS - tutors after cases were known where a ApS teacher had tried the student and his parents to advertise in the Church of Scientology.