Howard Stephen Berg, “The World’s Fastest Reader” and McKinney resident, will teach many of the accelerated learning techniques he has developed over the last twenty years.  The program is free of charge, and open to adults and children sixth grade and up.  Students as young as eleven are using his strategies to attend local colleges and earn A’s in their course work, and adults are using it to stay on top of information at work.

In 1990, the Guinness Book of World Records declared Howard Stephen Berg “The Fastest Reader in the World.”  He is noted for his ability to comprehend and remember what he reads, even at 25,000 words per minute.  He has read various texts on hundreds of radio and television shows, proving himself an expert in speed reading and reading comprehension.  Mr. Berg is the only person ever to have a reading claim published in Guinness.

Respected internationally for his contribution to advanced methods of learning, Mr. Berg has helped over 600,000 people around the world learn speed reading with better comprehension and study skills for improved memory.  His books include Super Reading Secrets, now in its 28th reprinting, Speed Reading the Easy Way (Barron’s Easy Way series), and the Nightingale-Conant program, Mega Speed Reading.

For more information about Mr. Berg’s April 6th program, please call the Library at 972-547-7323, or visit www.mckinneypubliclibrary.org.

“How to Learn Anything Faster” is part of the Library’s April programming, “Communities Thrive @ Your Library,” celebrating National Library Week, April 11-17. 

Event:           “How to Learn Anything Faster”

Presenter:    Howard Stephen Berg

Where:          Dulaney Room of the Roy and Helen Hall Memorial Library, 101 E. Hunt St.

When:           Tuesday, April 6, 2010, 7 PM

Admission:  Free