Why classroom-based SpeedReading training instead of packaged courses in book, audio or video format?
Reading is a physical skill – it needs to be learned and practiced. Few physical skills have ever been mastered without practice. While there is nothing essentially bad about packaged courses, you get what you pay for – a course only and not a skill. The skill comes from practice and the packaged course does not ensure that you will do the practice. In a classroom-course, you have an instructor who has traveled the road before you – he is there to explain the What, Why and How of the skills-development; to motivate, encourage, cajole and pressure you into doing the practice; to praise you for progress made; to answer and address your concerns; to make sure that you acquire the skill. And to keep working with you until you HAVE the skill.
