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Gerald Barry Stillit FCA (1938– ) is a British-born inventor, publisher and polyglot, who founded and was chairman of ''Stillit Books Ltd'' of Bond Street, his former educational publishing company. In 1963, Stillit invented an electronic corrector (''Stillitron Teaching Aid'') which was first applied as a teaching tool in conjunction with mathematics, science and language textbooks, used extensively throughout the British schooling system in the 1960s. This device was the first of its kind to combine circuit-board electronics with the ability to provide students with immediate positive feedback in monitoring answers to multiple choice questions. Subsequently, the electronic corrector was developed alongside a series of language courses which sold millions of copies worldwide throughout the 1970s and 1980s. ==Early Life and Education== Stillit was born in London, the youngest of four children to Joseph Stillitz, subsequently anglicising his name by deed poll. Stillit was educated at Highgate School in North London, leaving at 16 after having obtained O-Levels to train as a Chartered Accountant. He thereupon attended the London School of Economics, reading towards a Bachelor's in Economics under logicians Karl Popper and Imre Lakatos – however left aged 25 before completion of his degree as the success of his inventions overtook him. Concurrently, he also worked in his father's company Gor-Ray, at the time Britain's foremost skirt manufacturer, and while there introduced innovative retailing concepts such as Britain's first boutique concession store, operating within House of Fraser. Travelling throughout Western Europe as a young man retailing and distributing for Gor-Ray, Stillit quickly achieved multilingualism; this asset eventually evolved into the development of his own ''Stillitron'' language courses. Stillit later married the Company Secretary of Stillitron in 1986, with whom he has one son.
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