Creative Learning: A Scientological Experiment in Schools
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Creative Learning: A Scientological Experiment in Schools is a Scientology/Dianetics book written by one "V. Silcox". It was published in 1956 by Scientology Publications, London. [1]
The book is best known for the scandal it caused in 1960 when exercises from it were used on young children by Sheila Hoad, headmistress and teacher at East Grinstead Aston House Prep School.
For twenty minutes each day, Miss Hoad replaced English grammar lessons with the book's Scientologist children's exercises such as "Death Lessons", in which the kids (ranging from three to eleven) were told to close their eyes and concentrate on dying and turning to dust and ashes. The children were instructed to "never think about these lessons after they are over," which discouraged the children from telling their parents about it.
A nine-year-old female pupil became so depressed from the Death Lessons that she was taken to a doctor, who the child confided the truth to. In the ensuing scandal, outraged parents pulled their children from the school, while Hoad maintained that these Scientology Death Lessons were no different than saying "The Lord's Prayer."
The Church of Scientology subsequently distanced itself from Creative Learning: A Scientological Experiment in Schools, stating its methods were "outdated and dangerous" and that the Church's current practice was to imagine "beautiful things." [2]
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