It deals with deBono's concepts of creative/Lateral thinking.
Thinking, something that a number of people take for granted, is
one of the underlying core competencies of lofelong learning.
Walter Derzko
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> way human perception works as a self-organizing system. Such
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-- Posted by: Walter Derzko wderzko@epas.utoronto.ca