About us

Center for Integrative Learning is a Division of the International Foundation of Microbiology a not for profit 501(c)(3) organization based in the United States of America.

We are an educational center where we integrate and interconnect knowledge to make sense of it and then deliver it to the aspiring students enabling them to learn better and faster with understanding.

We learn and live better if we know the whole story, not scattered bits and pieces of it.

We are an experimental educational institute which has succeeded in integrating all of our accumulated knowledge, especially the functional part of it, into a continuous integrated whole which we teach to our students in its totality in a sequential and chronological order without leaving anything important out.

This form of integrated knowledge is easy to learn and use than the bits and pieces of scattered information we get from our schools and colleges because it enables us to not only know our overall knowledge base but also enables us to navigate throughout our knowledge base picking and using what we need as and when we need it for living, career building, becoming job ready, and for problem solving.

The integrative form of learning thus generates in us a sense of self confidence removing self doubts, anxieties and stress enabling us to realize our full potential becoming “actualized” in the process.

Imagine for a moment if you knew more than what you know now, and knew it well, how good and self confident would you feel? We want to give you that top of the world feeling!

Our aim is to make you wholesome mentally, physically, spiritually, emotionally and psychologically. We do it through condensing and integrating knowledge into a holistic collage, then teaching it as a continuous, interconnected whole not as bits and pieces of scattered information which the conventional schools and colleges do.

This form of integrative teaching is also less time consuming, requiring half the time, if not less, than you spend in conventional schools and colleges.

This system of teaching and learning is also calming and empowering removing stress and anxiety and has given rise to a new form of therapy called Technotherapy™. Integrative knowledge is also the starting point for becoming job ready and for embarking on a career. We give you a head start in both of these areas.

Spending as many as sixteen years of your life just to get a bachelor’s degree is a waste of your valuable time especially when you can accomplish the same and more via our integrative approach of teaching and learning coupled with the alternate means available to you for earning college credits .

We are a special school where we teach you all there is to know in a relatively short time without spreading it over quarters and semesters.

We can do this because we sift, sort, condense, integrate and interconnect all knowledge removing minutia and the redundant material from it and then teach the sum total of what comes out to you in a nutshell.

This is guided self paced learning that many schools talk about but we are the only school which has succeeded in actually doing it.

In addition to what we teach you, we also get you started on learning on your own and earning college credits via the CLEP (College Level Examination of Proficiency) and other opportunities available to you we mentioned earlier.

These alternate and legitimate avenues made available to you by your educational system enable you to proficiency out of many subjects thus shortening your graduation and earning your degrees from many accredited and prestigious schools.

Another special feature of our educational approach is that we do not teach subjects but an integrated collage of art, science, humanities, philosophy, sociology history and economics etc., and where applicable, like in science, we teach it in a lab setting using all the needed tools and instruments such as the various kinds of microscopes, pH meters, conductivity meters, balances, centrifuges, spectrophotometers, filters, autoclaves and chromatography and electrophoresis equipment and much more leaving nothing useful out.

At this point some of you may be thinking “this does not sound any simple” especially after reading all those complicated names of the instruments. If you thought that, you are short changing yourself believing you are not smart enough to learn how to use these instruments. May be that is why most students stay on the periphery avoiding learning what really needs to be learned.

In our hands-on teaching approach this does not happen because once you see and get to use these instruments it will be like using your cell phones, lap tops, and I-pods etc., all of which you learned by yourself because they were there and despite their complexity, you went head on learning instead of getting intimidated by them.

Learning and using science instruments will be no different as you will see.

IT IS NOT KNOWING THEM IS WHAT STANDS IN YOUR WAY OF LEARNING AND GROWING AND THIS IS WHAT WE AIM TO FIX FOR YOU TAKING YOUR FEARS AND UNCERTAINTIES AWAY IN THE PROCESS. .

The other part you most likely do not know, which we also did not know in the beginning, is that as we integrate knowledge, it shrinks. Science, for instance, got reduced to mere 150 simple concepts and skills, once we took the minutia and the redundancy out of it. This made those dreadful subjects of chemistry, physics and biology a breeze to learn. We found this out rather accidentally ourselves and you can read all about how science got reduced to mere 150 simple concepts and skills at: http://www.iibbt.com/storyhowscience.htm

The most surprising outcome of this form of educational system, however, was Technotherapy™, a new system of psychotherapy where the added knowledge and skills You learned produced much self assurance, lowering anxiety and stress in the process so much so that the people felt wholesome and self assured. Learned knowledge and skills thus turned out to be what the mind and the psyche needed. Consequently we are proposing that the conventional psychotherapy be combined with Technotherapy™ to reduce the duration of treatment as well as giving people a start towards a job or a career. This combined therapy is also likely to reduce the cost of psychological treatment.

The most surprising outcome of this form of educational system, however, was Technotherapy™, a new system of psychotherapy where the added knowledge and skills You learned produced much self assurance, lowering anxiety and stress in the process so much so that the people felt wholesome and self assured. Learned knowledge and skills thus turned out to be what the mind and the psyche needed. Consequently we are proposing that the conventional psychotherapy be combined with Technotherapy™ to reduce the duration of treatment as well as giving people a start towards a job or a career. This combined therapy is also likely to reduce the cost of psychological treatment.

Why schools can't or won't do what we do? Because they are set in their ways and also because the current system is so streamlined that it works to their advantage.

It is not that they cannot make changes because they do whenever it becomes convenient as they are now shifting to e-learning from the conventional classroom mode of teaching. They are opting away from class room teaching because it is more expensive than e-learning plus the former consumes much time of the faculty which they rather keep free so the faculty can do research instead of teaching. The research also brings both the faculty and the institution a degree of prestige and also enables them to get outside funding over and above allocated by the legislature or the amount collected as tuition fees.

Thus, whether they are a for profit school or a public or a private not for profit school, they are still run as a business and like any business their priority is not to loose money but to make money.

Their quarter and semester mode of teaching and their graduation requirements which specify the number of credit hours you are to accumulate in certain specified subjects in order to graduate with a degree from that institution are all designed to assure their financial stability.

What you do not know though that you are their only financial asset and they cannot exist without you.

So they go after recruiting you even giving you financial incentives in the form of financial aid, Pell grants, scholarships, student loans and even put you on work study programs so you have enough funds to not only pay your tuition fee but also have some funds left over to live on. And when those funds are not enough, you end up getting part time job to supplement you income even though such jobs take time away from learning, even delaying your own graduation which again favors the institutions for now they can keep you for a longer time.

Being hooked by these financial incentives, you also don't pay much attention to the student loan, even though it is going to haunt you after graduation, because at least for the time being it is helping you.

That said, the financial resources that you thus provide to the educational institutions give them much latitude how to conduct their day to day educational functions. For instance, should they teach you or do research instead, become the key questions?

Consequently, more and more educational institutions with their financial needs met, are opting for research at the expense of teaching, watering down or eliminating courses or directing you to e-learning instead of the classroom face to face learning. This way they still meet their teaching role, especially when they bring in technology that we are much sold on.

The question whether the students are truly learning thus gets put on the back burner and research becomes the dominating function because they have much more to gain with research. They even use their research activities as part of their public relation strategy selling their institutions to the public which also helps with student recruitment, while putting a deaf ear to all the complaints from the students who even went to the US senate complaining. See:

Consult United States Senate hearings by House Select Committee on Children, Youth, and Families on the Cost of College Education, held September 14, 1992. To obtain a copy, contact your local depository library or contact the Select Committee at 385 House Annex 2, Washington D.C., USA

From the above it should be clear that if they really wanted to teach you they could have changed their educational format and thereby taught you in much shorter time like we do.

The solution of this whole dilemma thus is not to entrust all of your education to the universities and colleges but to take your education in your own hands and take advantage of the multitude of resources available to you both inside and outside of the academia to speed up your learning and graduation. For that, you do not even need to come study with us but that will help if you so choose because we are not only geared to impart knowledge in an expeditious manner but we are also able to guide you to pursue learning on your own.

YOUR GOAL THUS NEEDS TO BE TO ACQUIRE KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS ANY WAY YOU CAN AND MAKING IT A LIFE LONG LEARNING NOT STOPPING JUST AFTER GRADUATION.

For instance, use the free part of the internet for which you do not have to pay anything plus chalk out your own syllabus and then accumulate credits via taking a number of exams available to you such as:

1. CLEP (College Level Examination of Proficiency) Examination;

2. ADVNCE PLACEMENT COURSES AND EXAMS: These are courses sponsored by the College Board whereby a high school student can take advance courses and if passes the required exams will get college credits for such courses;

3. RUNNING START: High school students, including home schoolers and those attending private schools can take advantage of this running start program wherein students can earn college credits while still in high school. This program has a lot of flexibility where certain high school drop outs can also participate.

In addition, there are also credit evaluation agencies which can evaluate the courses you studied outside of the local school system in this country or abroad including your work experience and military service.

Equivalency established by such agencies gets translated into transferable credits towards your college education reducing the time needed to graduate.

We urge our students to take advantage of these opportunities to expedite their education and graduation from accredited colleges and universities because such degrees carry the weight in the job market and coupled with the functional and analytical knowledge they gain on their own plus what we provide via our integrated educational system substantially aids them in their chosen career or profession as well as in their day to day life.

What our integrated approach of teaching thus does for you is this:
It gives you the needed knowledge in a practical format not available anywhere else and prepares you to take advantage of all the alternate ways of earning college credits and thereby expediting your graduation.

Our educational approach will also give you more functional knowledge, making you versatile, which you will find useful in the work place as well as in your chosen career path and also in your day to day life.

This is a monumental project but the one that is both doable and has to be done especially in the face of rising world population which now stands at 7 billion and rising.

Unfortunately, despite the urgency, neither you nor I can do it alone but together we can.

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The Center for Integrative Learning is a subsidiary of the International Foundation of Microbiology, a tax exempt section 501(c)(3) organization. Your contributions will thus be tax deductible to the extent permitted by the applicable IRS code.

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