MESSAGE FOR WEEK BEGINNING 1st October 2001

Direct Teaching of Thinking

Norman Darmainin Demajo has recently been to Albania to introduce the direct teaching of thinking as a skill into the schools of that country. Giuseppe Tidona from Ragusa in Sicily has sent some excellent research on the effects of teaching CoRT Thinking in a group of schools. All over the world individual schools and teachers are finding out that the direct teaching of thinking in a practical manner is possible and very effective. Brother Peter was in Tomsk in Siberia teaching thinking and has recently been to Lithuania and to Beijing as well. In Malta the Minister of Education, Dr Louis Galea, is appointing twelve teachers to work specifically in the introduction of thinking into the curriculum. Sandra Dingli in Malta, working with Daniela Bartoli, has been busy making this happen. It is a pity that it takes so long. There is now a huge amount of experience with this direct teaching of thinking. In the UK the teaching of thinking for just six hours to unemployed youngsters, in the government's New Deal programme, increased the employment rate five fold! If six hours of thinking could do more for those youngsters than ten years of education, maybe education should take notice.

Edward de Bono nmt
30th September 2001
South Africa