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HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex

                     HCO POLICY LETTER OF 26 AUGUST 1965

Sthil Foundation
Students

                            SCIENTOLOGY TRAINING
                                              TWIN CHECKOUTS


                    (Excerpts from HCO Policy Letters of
                    4 October 1964 and 24 September 1964
                                 rewritten)


    In Scientology training we use a  system  called  TWIN  CHECKOUTS.  Each
student
is assigned a  "twin"  to  work  with.  The  student  studies  his  assigned
material and is
sometimes coached over the rough spots by his twin. When the  student  knows
the
material, he is then given a checkout by his twin. If he flunks, he  returns
to study and
when ready gets  a  new  checkout.  When  he  passes,  the  twin  signs  the
assignment sheet
certifying that he has grasped it. The assignment sheet is turned in to  the
Course
Supervisor at the end of the period.

                              BAD STUDY HABITS


    Earlier forms of education suffer because of a habit. The habit  is  all
one's years of
formal schooling where this mistake is the whole way of life.

    If the student knows the words, the teacher assumes he knows the tune.

    It will never do a student any good at  all  to  know  some  facts.  The
student is
expected only to use facts.

    It is so easy to confront thought and so hard to  confront  action  that
the teacher
often complacently lets the student mouth words and ideas that mean  nothing
to the
student.

    ALL THEORY CHECKOUTS MUST CONSULT THE STUDENT'S UNDERST ANDING.

    If they don't, they're useless and will upset the student eventually.

    Course difficulties stem entirely from the  students'  non-comprehension
of words
and data.

    While this can be cured by auditing, why audit it all the time when  you
can
prevent it in the first place by adequate theory checkout?

    There are two phenomena here.

                              FIRST PHENOMENON


    When a student misses understanding a word, the section right after that
word is a
blank in his memory. You can always trace back to the word just  before  the
blank, get
it understood and find miraculously that the former blank area  is  not  now
blank in the
text. The above is pure magic.

                              SECOND PHENOMENON


    The second phenomenon occurs after the student has gone by many misunder-

stood words. He begins to dislike the subject being studied, more and  more.
This is
followed  by  various  mental  and  physical  conditions  and   by   various
complaints,
fault-finding and look-what-you-did-to-me. This  justifies  a  departure,  a
blow, from the
subject being studied.

    But the system of education, frowning on blows as it  does,  causes  the
student to
really withdraw self from the study subject (whatever he was  studying)  and
set up in its
place a circuit which can receive and give back sentences and phrases.

    We now have "the  quick  student  who  somehow  never  applies  what  he
learns".

    The specific phenomena then is that a student can study some  words  and
give
them back and yet be no participant to the action. The student  gets  A+  on
exams but
can't apply the data.