Here is the entrance to the Thinking Universe. Click HERE to read what the First Orbit is and what are the Learning Principles. Read more on BOOKS The book is written for: Readers who appreciate the work of Ken Robinson…
Beyond Tests and Textbooks Education too often gets reduced to a mechanical cycle: lessons, worksheets, tests, and marks. Learners are rewarded for memory rather than meaning, and success is measured in numbers instead of growth. But true learning was never…
In 1980, Alvin Toffler published his book The Third Wave.He described three great surges of human civilization: Toffler’s warning was clear: a society caught in the wrong wave will drown in its own past. Our Classrooms Are Still Industrial And…
Read this in colaboration with Stop Teaching. Promote Thinking. The purpose of Thinking Tools is to build a thinking culture in every home, in every school, in every community. This isn’t just a slogan. It’s a mission. A rallying call.…
Read this blog in collaboration with Stop Teaching. Promote Thinking. Education is at a crossroads. For too long, classrooms have been driven by rote learning, endless notes, and memorization drills. Learners are trained to parrot back answers — yet leave…
Read this blog in collaboration with Pillars of the Stop Teaching. Walk into almost any classroom today and you’ll see the same scene:The teacher talks. The learners listen. Notes are written down. Pages are memorized. Tests are taken. It looks…
Most learners make summaries.They condense chapters, trim notes, and rewrite in “shorter” form.They believe this makes learning easier. But when the exam comes, it all falls apart. ❓ “I knew the work, but I couldn’t answer the questions.”❓ “It looked…
Read this blog alongside the previous two blogs: The next blog is about How weak performances are masked by roleplayers. Hans Christian Andersen’s famous tale, The Emperor’s New Clothes, tells of a king who parades through his city wearing nothing…
In the first blog, we looked at the invisible ceilings that schools build — often without realizing it. Ceilings that quietly teach learners they can only grow as far as the system expects. Read this blog alongside When Schools Believe…
Read this blog alongside the blog Breaking the Ceiling: Teaching Learners to Think Beyond Limits Here’s what the researchers found in the study “Knowledge Does Not Protect Against Illusory Truth” (Fazio et al., 2015): Think of learning a garden path:Walk…