As we come to the end of the year 2000 I would like to highlight some things that I continue to find astonishing. As readers of this message you may or may not agree with me – but do think about it.
There are ten points. Five are given in this message and five in my next message.- How little attention we have paid to thinking for 2,400 years (ever since the Greek Gang of Three).
- How satisfied we have been with recognition thinking: identifying standard situations and providing standard answers. That is what education is all about.
- How we have never realised that argument is a crude, primitive and inefficient way of exploring a subject. Yet it remains the basis of our law courts and democracy.
- How little attention we pay to thinking even today – and yet the quality of our future depends directly on the quality of our thinking.
- How very simple methods that are easy to teach can have remarkable powerful effects. Why it has taken so long to design such methods?
Edward de Bono, 20th December 2000
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