Top Highlights

• Perception is a key part of thinking. Research by David Perkins at Harvard has shown that ninety per cent of errors of thinking were errors of perception.
• No amount of excellent logic will make up for errors of perception.
• today universities are out of date. Universities were set up to make the wisdom and knowledge of the past available to students of the present. In the digital age, all needed information can be directly obtained. Perhaps universities should be teaching skills: information skills, thinking skills, people skills, management skills, etc., etc.
• Authority is too often our only way of checking accuracy. If the source is authoritative and credible, we believe what we read or what we hear.
• Story-telling is important to all parts of the media. It is believed, probably correctly, that only stories are interesting – accurate facts are not. Story-telling demands a single point of view, not multiple points of view.