History Education

Evelyn was a teacher, and developed several speedreading methods. She coined the term speed reading.

Major corporations sent their executives to learn this new dynamic speed reading method which provided a valuable educational tool. President John F. Kennedy, and President Jimmy Carter had all White House staff members trained with the Evelyn Wood method. In 1980 his first class of Dynamic Speed Reading was given to series of volunteers in Texas and New Mexico. Dr Polmar maintained a functional schedule of teaching through 1993.

Then he put his abilities of teaching online, addressing students worldwide of his easy to learn speed reading methods and speedreading courses that have bettered education for thousands.

Brief History of Speed Reading

Russia had aggressively sought territory from European states during the long demise of the Ottoman Empire. In turn the West were deeply suspicious of Russia’s belligerent expansive policies and Stalin’s treatment of Poland caused this divide to open even further. In the post World War II talks, Stalin insisted that Eastern Poland, seized as part of the Nazi-Soviet Pact in 1939 should remain Russian territory, Churchill and Roosevelt agreed and compensated Poland with former German territories in the West. In January 1945 Stalin recognised the Communist dominated Lublin committee as the government of Poland as opposed to the elected body. During the occupation of Greece in the Second World War the communist resistance movement (EAM) trained a guerrilla army (ELAS) with the intention of achieving a communist revolution similar to Tito’s in Yugoslavia. Britain could no longer support the non-communist Greek government, they pleaded to the American administration for support, who at the behest of Under-Secretary of State Dean Acheson formulated the Truman Doctrine. Despite the evident benefits of the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan, Czechoslovakia, the only Eastern European country to have retained a democratic government, joined the Soviet Bloc in 1948. Eventually, the communists launched a coup d’etat, seizing power and probing a long red finger into the heart of the Western democracies.

By 1947, the Western powers had merged their zones of occupation, ended denazification, released prisoners of war, began a programme of central German government and relaxed economic restrictions on German economies. Subsequently, they blockaded Berlin on 24 June 1945. Reacting to this, the East German army closed all crossings from East Berlin to the West on 13 August 1961 and in subsequent weeks erected the now infamous Berlin wall. In 1959, Fidel Castro’s communist forces overthrew the dictatorship of Batista. Again in 1965, Johnson sent troops to South Vietnam to bolster the faltering anti-communist government becoming embroiled in the region for a decade. The rise of China, Japan and Western Europe and the rise of African nationalism coupled with the disunity of the communist alliance augured a new international politic.