Dr Caleb Gattegno has proposed a science of education which promises not only to change our views of how to learn languages, but also provides an approach which claims to enable us to learn once again with the aplomb we all had when we were first born. This science evolved from Dr Gattegno's lifetime study of Man. He proposed that it is how energy has evolved over time which has produced the diverse forms of energy, matter and life that constitute the world around us. One of the forms of energy, awareness, has itself evolved over time and is now manifest in the life forms that exist. Moreover the transformation of objectified forms of energy into more evolved forms has been achieved through the presence of awareness. Man, in this context, is the expression of awareness which has become aware of itself. It is through this action, of Man being aware of his/her awareness, that Man has evolved himself/herself and the Man-made world into the form that is visible now. The Silent Way of teaching languages has been developed from these and other understandings. It is claimed that it accomplishes the dual goals of providing an effective way of teaching languages as well as a way of learners recovering their learning prowess, which will allow them to continue their own evolution unfettered by chains which were created by those who did not know better.