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Most people are put off science because maths is the gateway and they can’t handle it. What we should be teaching is operational maths because, in general, the maths we need to carry out science is pretty straightforward.

Edward de Bono

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Operational

The concept of logical thinking is selection and this is brought about by the processes of acceptance and rejection. Rejection is the basis of logical thinking.

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The concept of logical thinking is selection and this is brought about by the processes of acceptance and rejection. Rejection is the basis of logical thinking.
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Concept Rejection Selection
Removing the faults in a stage-coach may produce a perfect stage-coach, but it is unlikely to produce the first motor car.

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Removing the faults in a stage-coach may produce a perfect stage-coach, but it is unlikely to produce the first motor car.
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Production
In a sense, words are encyclopedias of ignorance because they freeze perceptions at one moment in history and then insist we continue to use these frozen perceptions when we should be doing better.

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In a sense, words are encyclopedias of ignorance because they freeze perceptions at one moment in history and then insist we continue to use these frozen perceptions when we should be doing better.
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Oneself Word
If you never change your mind, why have one?

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If you never change your mind, why have one?
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Mindset Oneself
We still seek to solve conflicts with ‘judgement’ instead of designing the way forwards.
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The purpose of art is to reflect new emerging values and to define the new heroes and heroines so that people can absorb them into their perceptions.

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The purpose of art is to reflect new emerging values and to define the new heroes and heroines so that people can absorb them into their perceptions.
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Absorb Perception
Creative thinking – in terms of idea creativity – is not a mystical talent. It is a skill that can be practised and nurtured.

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Creative thinking – in terms of idea creativity – is not a mystical talent. It is a skill that can be practised and nurtured.
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Creativity Nurture
Language is the biggest barrier to human progress because language is an encyclopedia of ignorance. Old perceptions are frozen into language and force us to look at the world in an old fashioned way.

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Language is the biggest barrier to human progress because language is an encyclopedia of ignorance. Old perceptions are frozen into language and force us to look at the world in an old fashioned way.
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Language Way
Creativity can be learned like basketball, which does not mean we will all be NBA stars.
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Creativity
It is well known that “problem avoidance” is an important part of problem solving. Instead of solving the problem you go upstream and alter the system so that the problem does not occur in the first place.
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Avoidance System
An expert is someone who has succeeded in making decisions and judgements simpler through knowing what to pay attention to and what to ignore.

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An expert is someone who has succeeded in making decisions and judgements simpler through knowing what to pay attention to and what to ignore.
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Do we have the will to make poverty history?

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Do we have the will to make poverty history?
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Willing
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.

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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.
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Analysis Debate Description Tradition
If you do not design the future, someone or something else will design it for you.

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If you do not design the future, someone or something else will design it for you.
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A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen.

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A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen.
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Perception is real even when it is not reality.

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Perception is real even when it is not reality.
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Perception

Most people are put off science because maths is the gateway and they can’t handle it. What we should be teaching is operational maths because, in general, the maths we need to carry out science is pretty straightforward.

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