6	THE VOLUNTEER MINISTER'S HANDBOOK
Here's an example. "It was found that when the crepuscule arrived the children were quieter and when it was not present, they were much livelier." You see what happens. You think you don't understand the whole idea, but the inability to understand carne entirely frorn the one word you could not define, crepuscule which means twilight or darkness.
This datum about not going past an undefined word is the rnost important fact in the whole subject of study. Every subject you have taken up and abandoned had its words which you failed to get defined.
Therefore, in studying Scientology be very, very certain you never go past a word you do not fully understand. If the material becornes confusing or you can't seem to grasp it, there will be a word just earlier that you have not understood. Don't go any further, but go back to BEFORE you got into trouble, find the misunderstood word and get it defined.
That is why we have a dictionary. It will not only be the new and unusual words that you will have to look up. Some comrnonly used words can often be misdefined and so cause confusion. So don't depend on our dictionary alone. Use a general English language dictionary as well for any non-Scientology word you do not understand when you are reading or studying.
	
A student is one who studies. He is an attentive and systernatic observer. A student is one who reads in detail in order to learn and then apply.
As a student studies he knows that his purpose is to understand the materiais he is studying by reading, observing, and demonstrating so as to apply them to a specific result.
He connects what he is studying to what he will be doing.