Does studying science make you a better person?

[AikidoSoul]

75. "He taught me the process he used to correctly determine what was wrong with a system."

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Permit me to make a bet on how he did this....and I do think this is a process that is extremely important, and almost totally neglected in educational institutions, and even with parents teaching kids how to think at an early age. I do believe that intuition is important... if coupled with at least some thinking skills that can be taught, and can before part of that person's "toolkit" for life. Children are not taught that their exquisite brains are tools and that the goal is to use our brains as effectively as possible so that they don't just make associations in a linear way, and good but are trained to develop thinking skills that regularly go outside the narrow path of linear thinking.

Lateral thinking is an actual area of study, a method, created by Dr. Edward DeBono. He was able to get the Brazilian government to teach it to kids before the age of six. If I was able to, I'd get this country to teach the method to kids in pre-kindergarten... when their brains are the most open and able to develop thinking habits.

Frankly I wish all Democratic Party leaders would take these courses and then practice them. It might even be fun and useful to develop a group here on DU that takes these courses online and then discuss them....and THEN....WE CAN CITE PROBLEMS THAT NEED TO BE SOLVED....AND SEE WHAT WE COME UP WITH. HOW FUN AND EXCITING MIGHT THAT BE???!!!!

http://www.edwdebono.com/debono/lateral.htm

http://www.debonogroup.com/?gclid=CO22qpmfmLYCFQ6ynQoddQ0A5w

http://www.lateralthinkingonline.com/Lateral_Thinking.asp?MerchantID=32667&AdID=579621&mm_campaign=5e44343120aa94d4c309a4b74ebb70e0&mm_replace=true&gclid=CKv0m5afmLYCFQ7znAodliAAzg