Patter drill
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Church of Scientology which were added to many Church courses in mid-1995, by David Miscavige. The action of these drills is, while seated facing a wall, to repeat a section of course material verbatim to the wall until it can be done without reference to the written material. A checkout of the student's verbatim ability is then made by a fellow student or a course supervisor. These drills have created some controversy, as there is no reference written by Scientology's founder, L. Ron Hubbard which authorizes them.
Hubbard defined "practical" in Scientology's Technical Dictionary, saying:
"the drills which permit the student to associate and coordinate theory with the actual items and objects to which the theory applies. Practical is application of what one knows to what one is being taught to understand, handle or control."Dianetics and Scientology Technical Dictionary Pubs Organization, Los Angeles, CA ISBN 0884040372Hubbard spelled out specific practical drills in HCO Policy Letter 16 April 1965 Issue II "Drills, Allowed", and that policy letter disallows any other practical drills. "NO other practical drills of any kind will be permitted. ... I did not develop or authorize these drills and have now seen that they teach alter-is of easy processes."["Tech Alterations"]
But, if they were theory drills, the drills would then violate HCO Policy Letter 13 May 1972, "Chinese School". Others have contended that the patter drills are done in accordance with TR-101, which is once a drill to improve a student auditor's ability to give auditing commands. The preamble paragraph to that drill from page 380 of Dianetics Today states: "The most common errors made by student auditors are forgetting the commands during session and misusing command sequence or procedure or doing odd things because they get nervous. The following drills are designed to handle this. The drills must be thoroughly done."
It is clear that this drill was only intended for auditing commands and nothing else. There is no validation for these patter drills outside of the Church of Scientology.
There are reports of retaliative actions being taken against Scientologists who have objected to and reported what they see as a deviation from standard Scientology.["Chris Cloutier's situation"] The installation of the drills began in mid-1995 when David Miscavige announced the findings of an evaluation he made of education in the Church of Scientology: He stated that "the blind are leading the blind." After that announcement, patter drills were put on most courses.[Patter drills article][Patter drills article][Explanation of the implementation of non-LRH patter drills]
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