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Teach Your Child How to Think
by Edward de Bono
from Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0

• Creative thinking for parents and kids
  Teach Your Child How to Think
  Most young kids are creative but disorganized thinkers. This book is parents' book to guide the child to think creatively and at the same time be well organized, also as a member of a group of people. The book is good summary of several de Bono's thinking methods and guide how to transfer these skills to other people. De Bono is outside of the envelope, his methods are widely used and work well, but do not form any established academic model. Some people consider de Bono... more info

• If you have a child, are pregnant, or never learned to think...
  This book should leave the hospital along with your newborn. It is for parents, for children and for anyone who wants to blaze a few more synapses pathways. I strongly recommend this book. A large part of what is going so wrong with our beloved country, lately, is that we have neglected the science of teaching thinking skills. We can get back on track, one child at a time. Get this book today. It will open your mind, create a better future and immerse you in possibilities.

• Worthwhile as a practical guide
  This is a how-to manual on thinking. The main emphasis is on habits of a good thinker, such as focus and purpose, and specific thinking tools, such as the "Plus, Minus and Interesting" technique. The book enumerates many specific methods of effective thinking and suggests exercises to practice each of them.

  First some Critical Thinking (a valid, but inferior activity, according to the author). In spite of the cerebral subject, some statements sound decidedly lowbrow. Intellectualism is put down as an... more info

• Interesting
  I had a quick browse of the book and I find interesting. I believe it would have been better have a title Improve your thinking rather than teach your child how to think. I found the book to be helpfully to any age.
  The following captured my interest:
   Difference between, cleverness, wisdom and intelligence
   Perception vs. wisdom and use of logic
   The first rule of Intellectualism If you do not have much to say make it complex as possible.
   Criticism is much... more info

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