Teach your child how to think
Edward De Bono
- 1st ed.
- London : Penguin, 1993.
- 313 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Carpenters and thinkers -- Attitudes -- The six thinking hats -- White-hat thinking and red-hat thinking -- Black-hat thinking and yellow-hat thinking -- Green-hat thinking and blue-hat thinking -- Six thinking hats in sequence -- Outcome and conclusion -- Forward or parallel -- Logic and perception -- CAF : consider all factors -- PC : alternatives, possibilities, choices -- Values -- OPV : other people's views -- C & S : consequence and sequel -- PMI : plus, minus and interesting -- Focus and purpose -- AGO : aims, goals and objectives -- FIP: first important priorities -- First review section -- Broach and detail -- Basic thinking operations -- Truth, logic and critical thinking -- Under what circumstances? -- Hypothesis, speculation and provocation -- Lateral thinking -- Provocation and po -- Movement -- The random word -- Second review section -- Principles for thinking -- Structures and situations -- TO/LOPOSO/GO -- Arguments and disagreements -- Problems and disagreements -- Problems and tasks -- Decisions and choices -- Third review section -- Newspaper exercises -- The ten-minute thinking game -- The drawing method -- Final word.
Our increasingly complicated lifestyle demands clear and constructive thinking: making decisions, making choices, taking initiatives, and being creative. Watching television for twenty to thirty hours a week, as many children do, results in a passive mind that can only copy what others are doing (including drugs, sex, and violence). Give your children a better chance in life. Thinking is a skill ... even a superior brain is wasted without it. You can start to teach your children to think - now. With examples, exercises, games, and drawings, Dr. de Bono, Rhodes scholar and leading authority on the direct teaching of thinking, demonstrates the difference between intelligence and thinking, and provides a step-by-step method for helping children develop clear and constructive thinking. Even one or two thinking habits taken from this book and given to your children may strongly affect their life.
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