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In recognition of Kate Benson's work in the education field. Richard Bandler in 2004 made Kate the International Director for Education for the Society of NLP. This website aims to provide all who work in education with additional NLP reources and skills to make a difference to the difference.

Richard Bandler on Education

Extract of an interview June 2005 for Resources Magazine, with Dr Richard Bandler Co-founder of Neuro Linguistic Programming - NLP

By Kate Benson International Director of Education for the Society of NLP Director of Matrix Essential Training alliance Ltd

Question: My interest is in applying NLP to teaching and learning. How can teachers do more to teach better?

Answer: Our greatest asset for the future is our children. We are not investing in our greatest asset. We need to pay our teachers better, train them in learning strategies, and reward them for success. After all knowledge is developing at an accelerating rate, to the point where people have to be able to learn as fast as they can. Do you have trouble with your home computer? Teachers need to teach children to learn things quickly, because by the time you start to get a handle on this computer its going to be antiquated. We have to get people into the right state of learning only what works and not worrying about mistakes because there is no time.

The field of education has moved really slowly and they need to move much faster because knowledge has moved much faster. We have to emphasise that we have to be able to teach people very rapidly. I don’t look at people as being broken but as being uneducated. I don’t spend my time trying to figure out what caused a problem but how to educate them so they can go beyond it.

If I worried about the mistakes I made! What you have to worry about is what works. If something doesn’t work it will keep not working for centuries, that’s the thing! And defending it over an ideology is absolutely ludicrous. That is why the field of psychology was so stuck, it spent all of its time arguing over who had the right approach when none of them were successful. They were more interested in their theories than they were in the applications of those theories. I have always been more interested in the quality of life and well being of the end user that consumes my services. It’s the same thing with my students; I have been more concerned wit how quickly they can learn than whether they got this particular thing right.

I figure you are always going to be up against a new situation. Every person is somewhat different than every other person. Every situation is somewhat different form every other situation. And it is the ability to adapt to the situation that makes you successful at something. It’s what has distinguished NLP students who work with me for a long time from other people. They realise that I don’t do things the same way twice so there is no reason why they should. Click here to download the complete interview about NLP and education.