Edward de Bono
Edward de Bono
Edward de Bono is a Maltese physician, psychologist, author, inventor and consultant. He originated the term lateral thinking, wrote the book Six Thinking Hats and is a proponent of the teaching of thinking as a subject in schools...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPsychologist
Date of Birth19 May 1933
education play analysis
Western traditions of education have emphasized knowledge analysis, description and debate. They all have a part to play, but today there is a whole vast aspect of doing that has just been left out. Operacy is what keeps society going.
data ideas analysis
The analysis of data will not by itself produce new ideas...
future analysis possibility
To deal with future we have to deal with possibilities. Analysis will only tell us what is.
together analysis elements
Analysis is simplifying, breaking down things into parts, picking out strands and elements. Analysis is comparing unknown things with things that are known. Analysis also involves picking out relationships and putting them back together as a whole.
far human
Humour is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.
great looking painter people value
A painter may be looking at the world in a way which is very different from everyone else. If he's a craftsman, he can get other people to see the world through his eyes, and so he enlarges our vision, perception, and there's great value in that.
powerful taken creativity
The simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity.
car way driven
The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.
fighting thinking lessons
My thinking was taught to tribes in South Africa like the Zulus and Xhosas. At the time there were about 210 fights breaking out among them every month, but after they listened to my lessons, this fell to just four.
children giving may
I do a great deal of work with young children, and if you give a child a problem, he may come up with a highly original solution, because he doesn't have the established route to it.
mind facts commodity
Humor is probably the most significant characteristics of the human mind. Far more significant than reason. In fact, reason is actually a very cheap commodity.
teaching thinking employment
Teaching thinking for just five hours to unemployed youngsters increased employment 500 percent.
knowledge learning use
The purpose of science is not to analyze or describe but to make useful models of the world. A model is useful if it allows us to get use out of it.
children years nuts
Child mortality [since 2000 is] down by 2.65 million a year. That's a rate of 7,256 children's lives saved each day. ... It drives me nuts that most people don't seem to know this news.