Perceptual thinking is extremely important. Research by David Perkins confirms what I have been saying for years. His research showed that ninety-percent of errors in thinking were errors of perception.

Yet we have made no effort in education to teach perception. We have believed that teaching logic was enough and this would ensure good perception. This is totally false. Goedel’s theorem shows that from within a system you can never logically prove the starting points. The starting points are arbitrary perceptions and values. The CoRT programme which has been in use since 1972 in some schools is now spreading rapidly around the world because it teaches perception directly by providing perceptual tools. Research has shown that The CoRT Thinking Programme improves performance in every other subject by between thirty and one hundred percent.

Edward de Bono, 25th September 2006

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