Teach your child how to think / Edward de Bono.
By: De Bono, Edward
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BookPublisher: London : Penguin Books, 1992Description: 313p + pbk.ISBN: 0140126805; 9780140126808.Subject(s): Thought and thinking | Child care & upbringing: advice for parents | Study & learning skills: general | Parenting: advice & issuesDDC classification: 153.42 DEB Summary: Attempting to show parents how to teach their children how to think, this book shows how children can be taught to think for themselves rather than filling their heads with actual facts.
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Attempting to show parents how to teach their children how to think, this book shows how children can be taught to think for themselves rather than filling their heads with actual facts.
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Date- 2003-04-02Edward de Bono studied at Christ Church, Oxford (as a Rhodes Scholar). He also holds a PhD from Cambridge and an MD from the University of Malta. He has held appointments at the universities of Oxford, London, Cambridge and Harvard.
In 1967 de Bono invented the now commonly used term 'lateral thinking' and, for many thousands, indeed millions, of people worldwide, his name has since become a symbol of creativity and new thinking. He has written numerous books, which have been translated into 34 languages, and his advice is sought by Nobel laureates and world leaders alike.
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Edward de Bono has had faculty appointments at the universities of Oxford, London, Cambridge and Harvard. He is widely regarded as the leading authority in the direct teaching of thinking as a skill. He originated the concept of lateral thinking and developed formal techniques for deliberate creative thinking. He has written sixty-two books, which have been translated into thirty-seven languages, has made two television series and there are over 4,000,000 references to his work on the Internet. Dr de Bono has been invited to lecture in fifty-two countries and to address major international conferences. In 1989 he was asked to chair a special meeting of Nobel Prize laureates. His instruction in thinking has been sought by some of the leading business cor