NAVY SAYS 'LEARN-WHILE-YOU -SLEEP' SYSTEM REASON EVERY STUDENT MADE A SATISFACTORY MARK
Washington, D.C. (JFK+50) On November 1, 1923, the United States Navy Department gave credit to the 'learn-while-you-sleep' system of radio instruction to explain the fact that "every student at Pensacola Air Station*...made a satisfactory mark."
The Evening Star reports that this system requires students to sleep with radio receivers (headsets) over their ears and that USN authorities say that "all of those (students) with low ratings had been pulled up through the agency of the subconscious mind."
JFK+50 NOTE
My sources say that learning by sleep has not been taken seriously since 1956. Research has shown learning during sleep is impractical and probably impossible. This probably explains why I didn't learn much in kindergarten.
*Navy Air Station Pensacola is a US Navy base located next to Warrington, Florida. Built in 1913, NASP was closed to the public in 2019 because of a terrorist attack. It reopened on May 17, 1923 to allow the public to access the National Naval Aviation Museum on the base.
SOURCES
"'Learn in Sleeping' Radio System Is Success," The Evening Star, Washington, D.C., November 1, 1923, Chronicling America, Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/
"What you need to know about NAS Pensacola reopening to the public," by Jim Little, Pensacola News Journal, May 4, 2023, www.pnj.com/
