Truly Bitchin.
Why.. it's all about scaleandrelativity {too.}
Makes my whole week, esp. after hearing pols endlessly regurgitating unimaginitive 'solutions' for and to a nation of smug cluless narcissists.

A cousin of [link|http://schoolnet.gov.mt/thinkingskills/thinkingtools.htm| Edward de Bono], some of whose sessions of the Thinking Course I have still, on beta tapes.

It's a great way of throwing right out, the normalcourseexpectations of the jelloware, for a fresh start.
(I recall also the same opening gambit - binary division / successive approximation - as the root Idea of a small coil-bound book called, Logical Electronic Troubleshooting --Ex: the sleuthing of a serial chain of amplifiers (and all 'chains'.))

I wish.. I'd been exposed to Any of these authentically awake honchos First! way-before the 'prescriptive teaching' ever began. Even at The Institute\ufffd, where one fully expects to encounter rilly Clever folk, I can recall only a few events with a very-few teachers who grokked these ideas, even artlessly.
(mostly, re techno - these were {sigh} grad students. Top brass at lectures, only.)

There is so bloody-little! Thought in this world of -now- exponentially-climbing (thus Useless-) data == storage of unsorted-Everything; just-because-We-Can. Purest: Rumpelstiltskin inAction.

Another rarity: not only does Mr. Niquette have a 'game plan', as well as handy icons for the varieties of snoozing students, but he can even explain what his recipe is (and he need not 'explain' that his approach mirrors Life, because if he had to...

Sincere Thanks, deranged-one, for a worthy addition to my miniscule Basic-BASICS file.


I Who Be


lots more at that site, of course..