![]() ![]() Reading tests were administered by the University of Minnesota, the University of Illinois, the Purdue University and Northwestern University. In tests after tests, Calderon proved her amazing aptitude. Salinger’s “The Catcher in the Rye” in 40–and she understood every word and paragraph she read.Īlso Read: 8 Famous Filipino Events You Didn’t Know Influenced The World In the case of Calderon, her general knowledge was simply extensive, that in one test, she managed to still score 37,000 wpm when she was given a book to read-on golf! She breezed through Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “The Scarlet Letter” in 20 minutes, Henry James’ ”The Turn of the Screw” in 25 minutes, and J.D. The more familiar the topic, the faster the reader can skim. This means that when Calderon reads, she would gestalt by filling in the gaps from her stock knowledge. But Maria would take a different route in making her mark in history by becoming a speed-reading whiz.Īlso Read: 13 Incredibly Amazing Pinoy Athletes Who (Almost) Conquered The WorldĬalderon mastered a technique called “gestalting”-a German form of psychology that says the response of an organism is a complete and un-analyzable whole rather than the sum of responses to specific elements. Norma Calderon-Panahon, is a distinguished psychiatrist. that managed multi-billion-dollar funds in New York for years. Her eldest sister is the “Wonder Woman of Wall Street,” Lilia Calderon-Clemente, head of Clemente Capital, Inc. Florence Schale.Ĭalderon came from a family of achievers, the fifth child of Jose Calderon (an Ilocano from Candon, and a member of the 1971 Constitutional Convention) and Betty Fabros (from Batangas, the first and only woman member of the Manila Stock Exchange from 1967-83). ![]()
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