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to equip your students to become excellent
lifelong thinkers.
Dr. Edward de Bono is regarded by many as the leading
international authority on creative thinking and the direct
teaching of thinking skills. He has written over 75 books
with translations in more than 38 languages. He has worked
steadily with school districts, governments, and major
corporations in more than 50 countries over the last 30
years. He has taught thinking skills to four-year-olds,
corporate executives, and Nobel Prize laureates.
Dr. de Bono's background is in medicine and psychology.
He was a Rhodes Scholar and held faculty appointments a the
universities of Oxford, Cambridge, London and Harvard. His
medical background in biological information systems
inspired and enabled him to not only teach thinking but to
design revolutionary thinking methods.
In his book The Mechanism of Mind, Dr. de Bono
first described how the nerve networks in the brain behave
as a self-organizing system. It was from this base that Dr.
de Bono designed his thinking methodologies. He is the
inventor of the term "Lateral Thinking," the creator of Six
Thinking Hats framework and the designer of the CoRT
Thinking Lessons for schools, which is the most widely
used program internationally for teaching children thinking
skills.
In 1985, Dr. de Bono wrote the book Six Thinking Hats
which was immediately embraced by educators and corporations
worldwide. In 1991, Dr. de Bono arranged for the
incorporation of what is now de Bono Thinking Systems, Inc.
to publish his training materials and certify instructors to
teach his thinking methods to adults in the
corporate/business, non-profit and government markets. In
2007 he authorized The Opportunity Thinker to create a new
entity, de Bono for Schools, to develop, publish and sell
his school materials in North America.
Dr. de Bono is currently number 40 on the Global Thinkers
50 list of the most influential business thinkers in the
world.
The widespread use of Dr. de Bono's materials across
different nationalities and cultures is due to the
simplicity and robustness of the materials. The materials
can be used by teachers with widely differing background and
qualifications. For example, you will find teachers teaching
de Bono thinking methods to students in countries such as
Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Hong Kong, Canada, India,
Malta, South Africa, and England.
"My one ambition is that
around the world there should be a few more young people who
come to say, 'I am a thinker.' I would be even more pleased
if some of them were to go further and say: 'I am a thinker,
and I enjoy thinking.'"--Dr.
Edward de Bono
Dr. de Bono was
awarded Brain of the Year 2009--click |
