| Speed Reading methods began with Evelyn Wood | | | | courses to accelerate the learning process. This |
| who invented it, while she was fishing, or rather feeding | | | | included methods of programming the brain and mind |
| bait to the fish via hook. She was bored when they | | | | for success. |
| weren't biting the hook, and she read. And accidentally | | | | Dr Jay Polmar completed his studies for his doctorate |
| she discovered that when put down the fishing rod, | | | | and began teaching classes in accelerated learning, |
| and held her hand a certain way, she could read | | | | speed reading, and did private therapy in the reduction |
| faster. Evelyn was a teacher, and developed several | | | | of psychologically developed disease using methods of |
| speedreading methods. She coined the term speed | | | | therapies with several hundred patients in Texas and |
| reading. | | | | New Mexico. In 1980 his first class of Dynamic Speed |
| As time went on, organizations called Evelyn Wood | | | | Reading was given to series of volunteers in Texas |
| Reading Dynamics were springing up all over the US, | | | | and New Mexico. This course was abbreviated from |
| and throughout many of the English-speaking countries. | | | | the Evelyn Wood 25 hour version, down to a 7 hour |
| Major corporations sent their executives to learn this | | | | intensive. He was asked to teach these methods in |
| new dynamic speed reading method which provided a | | | | New Mexico, in Colleges, and New Mexico's State |
| valuable educational tool. President John F. Kennedy, | | | | Universities and in a New Mexico prison. |
| and President Jimmy Carter had all White House staff | | | | In 1985, the Dr Polmar was invited to teach these |
| members trained with the Evelyn Wood method. For | | | | metods in Nevada and Hawaii, time and time again. Dr |
| about 25 hours students would study speedreading | | | | Polmar maintained a functional schedule of teaching |
| and practice the pacing, and scanning techniques of | | | | through 1993. Although injured in 1991, he returned to |
| speed reading until proficient. | | | | teach only in 1992-1993. In 1994 he had multiple |
| Then, after the death of John Kennedy and the death | | | | surgeries, although he requested the alternative of |
| of Evelyn Wood, the organization slowly disappeared | | | | acupuncture for the injury, the State of Florida, which |
| and students searched everywhere for classes to | | | | then forced treatment methods on injured people, |
| learn speed reading. From 1965 to 1981 speed reading | | | | pressured Jay to have surgeries. After catching Staph |
| courses had reached a lull with few teachers and no | | | | infections in septic hospitals, and requiring more than |
| PR or advertising. | | | | two dozens surgeries, many which were not |
| In 1979, after completing three months of travel in Latin | | | | successful, Dr. Polmar would never be able to teach |
| America, Jay Polmar returned to Southern Texas and | | | | classes. |
| began his graduate degree ending in 1981 in Philosophy | | | | Then he put his abilities of teaching online, addressing |
| of Psychology, using a specialization in Education, and | | | | students worldwide of his easy to learn speed reading |
| Hypnotherapy. Writing a paper on the Fine Tuning of | | | | methods and speedreading courses that have |
| the Human Instrument (the Human Body) and | | | | bettered education for thousands. |
| techniques of educational success, he developed | | | | |