Education
Lateral thinking can be taught, and Edward de Bono has put forward an education program for the teaching of such thinking. The Cognitive Research Trust presents 80 different tools for thinking, as an alternative to training in other ways of thinking, such as creativity. The tools can be taught and trained using a didactic and pedagogical approach, which de Bono describes as being different from both the training in logic/analyses (vertical thinking) and the training in creativity/sensibility (horizontal thinking).
Teachers are encouraged to used automated training materials, a direction which aims to remove political bias from teaching. Based on cognitive knowledge, the correctly conducted teaching and training is intended to reduce pedagogical approaches to teaching. The system aims to teach "strong thinking", an alternative to thinking in what de Bono calls "vertical" and "horizontal" ways. Pupils are intended to maintain their original "thinking bias".
Parallel thinking is a teaching method that combines various lateral thinking tools, either alone or with other pupils, to protect the individuality of each of the pupils.
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