Why de Bono Thinking Tools

de Bono tools will equip your students to become excellent lifelong thinkers. CoRT Thinking Lessons have been taught in schools since the mid 1970s. They have since become the most widely used school materials for the direct teaching of thinking as a basic skill worldwide. This widespread use of de Bono's school materials across different nationalities and cultures is due to the simplicity and robustness of the materials. They can be used by teachers and students with widely differing backgrounds, ages (6-adult), abilities (IQs of 75-140), and qualifications.

	Paul MacCready Ph.D. one of the greatest engineers of the 20th century. "First I would introduce Edward de Bono's thinking courses in all schools." MacCready is the Inventor of the world's first human and solar-powered aircraft and car, President of Aerovironment Inc. Monrovia, CA.

	Professor David Perkins Harvard Graduate School of Education Professor David Perkins has conducted a detailed research in de Bono’s CoRT® course. In his book called “Outsmarting IQ - The Emergence of Learnable Intelligence (1995) “, he wrote: "It is reasonable to conclude that CoRT (one of de Bono's thinking programmes) has considerable impact on thinking… Also, there can be some impact on general measures of intelligence and on school performance… CoRT is straightforward, ingenious, and quite easy to apply. Intelligence can be taught by CoRT."

	Sheldon Lee Glashow Nobel Prize Laureate for Physics (1979)： "Dr. de Bono's innovative thinking methods have been tried and tested by many pupils and professionals, and they do seem to help people to be more creative and original. I saw the system in action at an impasse during a seminar of Nobel laureates. When a Random Word (one of de Bono's thinking tools) was injected into the discussion, the problem was quickly resolved."

	John Naisbitt Author of Megatrends 2000： "It is a function of clarity of de Bono's approach that his thinking course works well with school children or executives. Quite frankly, his tools work. They are practical, proven and often yield powerful results when applied."

Dr. de Bono is currently number 40 on Thinkers 50 List—the most influential business thinkers in the world. Check out the list: http://www.Thinkers50.com

Here are some business examples:

The Eurhythmics rock group posted a note of thanks to Edward de Bono on the cover of a best selling LP.
The United Kingdom reduced unemployment from 3 million to 1 million.
Motorola developed and brought to market the first PDA/MP3 Player.
Boeing navigated through and avoided a deadlock between management and its labor union.
3M developed market-breaking product innovations—such as: Duct Tape targeted for women.
ABB went from $0 to $60 million in profit in just 2 years in the country of Syria.
Dupont benchmarked every creativity process on the market for its Creativity Center. Dr. David Tanner, former technical director of DuPont, says that “the de Bono Techniques were the most useful” to DuPont. For example, an employee’s suggestion — the reengineering of a manufacturing process for Kevlar® — eliminated nine steps in the process, leading to savings of $30 million as a result of using Lateral Thinking™ techniques.

Dr. de Bono's background is in medicine and psychology. He was a Rhodes Scholar and held faculty appointments at the universities of Oxford, Cambridge, London, and Harvard. He has written over 75 books with translations in more than 38 languages.

In his book The Mechanism of Mind, Dr. de Bono first described how the nerve networks in the brain behave as a self-organizing system. It was from this base that Dr. de Bono designed his thinking methodologies. He is the inventor of the term "Lateral Thinking," the creator of Six Thinking Hats and the designer of the CoRT Thinking Program for Schools, which is the most widely used program internationally for teaching children thinking skills.

You will find teachers teaching de Bono methods to students in countries such as Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Hong Kong, China, Canada, India, Malta, South Africa, and England. Check out what other countries are doing.