FOREWORD

More and more people today find they must do more and more reading. Professional men, businessmen, and work­ers who want to get ahead faster in industry are learning that the road to advancement leads through masses of printed words. Men and women everywhere feel the need to absorb a flood of new information in order to understand thought cur­rents moving through the world. They must read faster — and better.

With such a need apparent, the staff of This Week Maga­zine began a survey of the techniques which have developed the new methods of what may be called Modern Reading. We became convinced that these techniques produced dramatic results in faster reading time and were training people in a better,  more intelligent way of reading.

Schools and colleges have discovered that courses in read­ing skills give enormous aid to students struggling under the heavier loads of today's scholastic programs. Young men and women trained in Modern Reading show distinct advantages over those who lack this kind of preparation.

It seemed to us that we could perform a real service for our readers if we were to give them articles in the magazine which expressly dramatized the skills of Modern Reading. From the several authorities in the field we picked The Reading Laboratory of New York City and William S. Schaill, its presi­dent, as our consultants. The Reading Laboratory, organized in 1950, is one of the pioneers in developing the techniques of Modern Reading. From New York, and other offices in Phila­delphia and San Francisco, this organization sends teams of experts into schools and colleges as well as into important business firms in this country and overseas to conduct execu­tive courses in Advanced Modern Reading.

There was such an immediate response to the articles in This Week Magazine that we asked Mr. Schaill to expand them into a book, not only for individual readers but to meet the need of the many teachers who have written asking when the series would be available. In keeping with the principles of reading faster, it will not take you long to learn from this book the method of Modern Reading. But, as Mr. Schaill points out, you must concentrate and drill yourself in the techniques until you practice them instinctively, and that takes longer. I believe the reward is worth the fullness of effort.

In recent years millions of Americans have learned that it is not enough just to read more. Under today's information pressures you must read faster and read better. It is the purpose of this book on Modern Reading to show you how.


Editor & Publisher This Week Magazine
New York January 1962

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