Quando as organizações interiorizarem este parágrafo, Portugal poderá ser bem melhor. Edward de Bono, pela sua simplicidade, pela pureza e alcance das suas teorias, pela facilidade de aplicação, é um dos grandes 'gurus' da actualidade.

"The teaching of thinking is not then teaching of logic but the teaching of perception. There is a need to make this point very strongly. Our traditional approach to the teaching of thinking as a skill has concerned itself almost exclusively with the teaching of logic. Logic, and especially Aristotelian logic, has played an important part in our culture for centuries. This has come about both as a result of the classics tradition but even more as a result of the way St. Thomas Aquinas repackaged Aristotle and so provided the Scholasticism that determined the thinking of the Church and the whole education system which the Church then controlled. Logic is tangible and direct. We can make rules and observe mistakes. It almost has the neatness and formality of mathematics. Whenever anyone sets out to teach thinking there is a strong temptation to drift back into teaching logic, because this seems to be the only definite thing that can be taught. " - Edward de Bono - Lateral Thinking @1976