Thinking in Education

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Edward de Bono is running the largest programme in the world for teaching thinking in schools. As a trainer of his thinking skills - Lateral Thinking, the Direct Attention Thinking Tools, and The Six Thinking Hats - I am very interested in bringing thinking into education.

CoRT - Cognitive Research Trust, based in Cambridge, are a collection of 60 tools designed for schools. Teaching 20 of these is usually sufficient for general purposes, providing the tools are taught by a trained instructor.

Intelligence can be taught by CoRT !

Anyone out there interested in the teaching of thinking?

You are the poster who uses a phrase like 'backwards children' and expect to be regarded as someone teachers should listen to?
I don't think so.

You might not like to face reality, but there are many backward children, and backward adults! The phrase is not wrong simply because you do not like it. You are missing the point made.

The point made was that The Six Thinking Hats are not specially for highly intelligent people. The Hats can be used for all levels of intelligence.

You might not also like the fact that there are some people with a low intelligence. But there are. Whether we like it or not.

Using the Hats help to raise intelligence of the backward and the gifted. And those in between.