Teach Your Child How to Think

From Publishers Weekly
Some parents may be confused by this busy primer, while others will agree with the author's premise that creative thinking skills can be directly taught. De Bono, a business and educational consultant, asserts that this manual is equally applicable to teaching children or senior executives. Crammed with exercises, games and diagrams, the book stresses that thinking involves "operacy"--the skills of doing or making things happen--as well as devising mental patterns more effective than the mind's routine habits. De Bono ( I Am Right You Are Wrong ) takes a no-nonsense approach, pointing out that much thinking is inefficient and that many highly intelligent people are not good thinkers. He urges the use of speculation, hypotheses, provocation and other techniques as a way to get out of mental ruts and generate ideas. Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.


From AudioFile
Covering a highly intellectual topic, the philosophy and psychology of thinking, this audiobook is geared towards adults and older children. A longtime veteran in the field, de Bono gives listeners exercises to expand their thinking capacity. Zimbalist's reading is appropriately unemotional and flat. He does the best he can with dry subject matter, but the listener will find it difficult to stay engaged. Dry material plus a droning reading make it too easy to tune out. A.G.H. (c) AudioFile, Portland, Maine


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Edward de Bono's renowned educational program for developing children's thinking skills has been adopted in countries and schools around the world. Teach Your Child How to Think makes that program directly available for the first time to anyone who wants to give their children a better chance in life. With examples, exercises, games, and drawing, de Bono demonstrates the difference between intelligence and thinking and provides a step-by-step method for helping children develop a clear and constructive thinking pattern (how to make decisions, take initiatives, and become more creative) that an increasingly complicated life demands. Even one or two thinking habits or tools taken from this book can strongly affect a child's whole life.


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