Delphi—A Different Approach

Imagine a school your child didn't want to leave at the end of the day—where learning was a joy and studying an exciting adventure. Imagine a faculty that knew enough about study and learning to create a school environment like that. Suppose that as the young child became a mature student this sensible approach to study and learning became a working and natural part of his or her approach to not only school but life.

And imagine there was a way to recognize when the student had gotten off track in his or her studies and both the teacher and the student knew exactly what to do to turn that around? Imagine, instead of plowing ahead year after year amid a mass of confusion and boredom, this student became more bright, more eager and more confident, rather than less.

Imagine things going so right in school that when a student finally graduated from high school, that student was enthusiastic, competent and truly prepared to tackle learning for the rest of his or her life.

An Ideal Environment: Study Technology

The basics at the Delphi Academy that make the above scenario into a reality are contained in what is called Study Technology (or simply Study Tech). It was developed by American philosopher and educator L. Ron Hubbard during the second half of the twentieth century and contains an understanding of how to study and how to actually learn, as well as a practical knowledge of how to apply this data to help any student of any age learn anything he or she wants.

Study Technology provides simple but powerful tools for both teachers and students by which any subject can be understood. Teachers at Delphi Academy are thoroughly trained in using Study Tech to help students keep flying along in their studies, and as Delphi students move up to higher classes, their own grounding in how to study effectively becomes more and more firm.

Delphi Students have Individual Programs

Students are not all the same, and don't all start at Delphi Academy on the same footing. Each arriving student is given diagnostic testing and interviews from which a program based on interests, strengths and weaknesses is designed. Some students arrive at the school with one or more "holes" in their existing education and part of the initial task is to identify and repair those holes before they become any more of a problem. The student can then embark on a full academic program.

Delphi Forms versus "Grades"

Rather than place or advance a student based on age or number of months spent at one level, Delphi Academy takes the approach that each level of one's education involves acquisition and demonstration of particular abilities and knowledge. We refer to each level as a Form, and the abilities and knowledge the student acquires at each Form are mapped out in explicit graduation requirements.

Forms provide specific goals and an individualized road. Delphi students have their own program which guides them through each Form. Students can enroll in a Form at any time during the school year. This structure makes it possible for a student to move on to a higher Form, regardless of age, once all the graduation requirements for the previous Form have been met. In this way, each student advances as rapidly as he or she is learning and demonstrating competence.

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