Who We Are

The Moore Memory School is the creation of Tom Moore who lives in Columbia South Carolina, USA.  As Tom Moore is the first to say, he didn’t create anything.  He did accomplish putting together, memory systems and recent brain research findings, to create education courses, in an innovative format, which he refers to as “the natural learning language of the brain.”

He first learned about memory systems in 1976, when he read, “The Memory Book,” by Harry Lorayne, a memory expert and author of several published memory books and Jerry Lucas, a former basketball player, who was an All-American at Ohio State University, a member of the 1960 U.S. Olympic basketball team and a player in the National Basketball Association (NBA).  “The Memory Book” detailed the history of memory systems, which are thought to have originated with the Greeks before 300 B.C.

In 1989 Tom Moore was in California, on a business trip, and during a free afternoon of sight-seeing, came across the Bornstein School of Memory.  He stopped and met Mr. Arthur Bornstein, a Los Angeles based memory expert, who was also an author of several published memory books.  Tom Moore spent about three hours that day with Arthur Bornstein, listening to incredible stories of learning achievement.

Mr. Bornstein encouraged Tom Moore to use his memory systems and memory materials to teach people how to learn.  When Tom Moore told Mr. Bornstein he wasn’t an educator, Mr. Bornstein replied, “Maybe you will be one day.”

Inspired by his visit with Mr. Bornstein, Tom Moore for several years thereafter, informally tutored the children of friends in his community, helping students achieve remarkable, near perfect test scores.  Tom Moore recalls one case of helping a struggling sixth (6^th) grade child. At the end of three months, the school wanted to test him as a “gifted learner.”

Rather than the exception, this has been the norm for the students using the memory systems and images created by Tom Moore.

For many years thereafter, many parents encouraged Tom Moore to create courses using his systems to help children struggling in school.

In 2013, following his retirement from a second business, Mr. Moore decided to create Moore Memory to do just that.  Since 2013 he has had numerous opportunities to demonstrate these systems, in schools, to teach a variety of subjects.  The subjects included Math, Anatomy, Spanish, Chemistry and World Geography.  The results were always the same.  High levels of achievement by most students in short periods of time.

Over the years Tom Moore worked on creating the most effective learning format for students.  This led him to brain research, particularly the work of Dr. Karl Pribram, who was a board-certified neurosurgeon, and pioneer in the study of brain research.

Tom Moore learned of one observation and finding of Dr. Pribram that he believed was of enormous value in learning.

Tom Moore calls this finding the “eye clock.”  Simply stated, if you think of your eye as a clock, by focusing your eye on certain “hour” locations, you physically open a channel to the part of the brain that processes individual specific senses.  For example, by positioning your eye at 1 o’clock, you open the channel for the creation of images or pictures.  We detail the entire “eye clock” in the “How it Works” section of our webpage.

Dr. Pribram and other brain researchers determined, through laboratory research, the more senses employed in learning, the greater that knowledge is physically impressed upon the brain.

While Tom Moore, again, didn’t play any role in creating this knowledge, he did seize upon the importance of linking everything together into an education course format.

Although we can’t say this format has never been utilized in education before, because of the unique combinations, the Moore Memory School courses may be the first in education history to use memory systems, “eye-clock” movements and all the senses,

Certainly, we can say, they are highly effective, in creating comprehensive permanent retrievable knowledge.

Very few people Tom Moore has met over the years since 1976 have had any knowledge or exposure to memory systems.  Virtually no one he has spoken to has ever heard of “eye-clock” movements and sensory processing.

The world is undergoing an enormous technology change.  Educators have talked for decades about the importance of students, of all ages, acquiring extensive knowledge of Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (“STEM”) courses.

That need is more critical today than ever.  As technology futurists have written, the need for technology knowledge in corporations today begins with the entry level employees and goes all the way up to the CEO.

Based upon this observation, who are the undereducated in our world?  The short answer is everyone.

With the Moore Memory School courses, everyone, who possesses normal brain function (regardless of age), can become highly educated in these subjects, in a short period of time.

In 2013, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), a real time brain scanning experiment, determined the brain recognizes a picture image in 13/1,000 of a second.  This is a significant finding, as images are the essence, of all memory systems.

This finding corroborated what Tom Moore has experienced in teaching students.  Any student can quickly learn anything provided it is presented in the proper format.

Some memory experts have stated that learning a course using, only a memory system, can be accomplished in fifty (50%) percent of the time normally allotted to teach a technical subject.  The Moore Memory School courses may require even less time.

This means your opportunity to create knowledge, at any location and part time, can result in meaningful employment and financial security.  And such goals can be measured in periods of weeks and months and not years.

On behalf of Tom Moore, we welcome you, Students of the World, to the Moore Memory School and wish you great success in your journey to academic achievement.