6404C10 SHSpec-14 How to Manage a Course

[Some of the data in this tape is also covered in HCOPL 10Apr64
"Scientology Courses".]

There are three zones of responsibility in course management:

1. Providing valuable subject materials. Scientology now embraces and
culminates anything desirable in the fields of religion, mysticism,
spiritualism, or mental sciences, so we have valuable subject
materials.

2. Organizing and codifying the materials so they are highly effective
and comprehensible. LRH and MSH have figured out the right form and
organization of a bulletin. There are twelve headings.

3. Instructing the student in those materials, to a high level of
competency and comprehension.

The largest potential randomity comes in (3), above. Students need
individual handling, to clarify their individual misunderstoods. There are no
slow students. There are only slow instructors. A fast course is well
instructed. A slow course is poorly instructed. A bad course gets bad
enrollments. If you want a full course, give a well-instructed course.

We do have to develop methods of handling students who throw lots of
complication and questions into learning the materials. The instructor's
attitude should be very tough and very helpful. He should be able to
discriminate between a student who is genuinely confused and is putting in
some arbitrary of his own, and a student who is merely being an
obstructionist. The instructor must not be concerned with the student's
knowledge of inessentials, but must be very tough about the student's
knowledge of essential material. Examine essentials only. Don't bother with
inessentials. Instruction is fast to the degree that the instructor gets the
essential data through to the student and gets the student off of his concern
with bric-a-brac.

(Ill health depends on the broken dramatization of a GPM.)