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www.peopleandmanagement.com SR: So, is this what inspired you to coin the idea of mind mapping? TB: Actually, Truth inspired me. SR: I am sorry, I didn’t get that. Truth about what? Could you please explain which ‘Truth’ you are talking about? TB: This year my next book’s 5 pages will reveal this.. Every teacher fi rst needs to know how to teach to mentally retreat and how can one apply what the brain offers? In this way, the students can love the process of learning. SR: Today, most of the teachers & parents come with an issue, that what should they ‘focus’ on, in their child. Cover of the book has the Uzlomberg Pattern, taken from Greek Mythology. It is an elliptical pattern which is spirally moving; Which brings me to that statement that the world needs more teachers, who promote thinking and learning on the part of students as well as themselves. This brings me to my next book - Teacher; Most important profession in the world. TB: Both parents & teachers need to change their focus to the fact that it is a human being.Teachers & Parents are having genius with untapped potential in front of him, but they get arrogant, criminal. and this inspired me to get people to get out of the prison - ethical prison, functional prison, shackled, changed hand & leg cuffed, power in padlock and are told that is true, actually its only true when they decide to true. TB: Do you Day dream. With reference to our education systems, it is SR: Yes important to realize that our formal education institutions are on average less than 150 years old. TB: Did you day dream in school? They are, in the context of the evolution of the SR: Yes information in the brain was in very short supply, TB: Look, Daydreaming is an essential act, without day dreaming you cannot form a concept. human race, just babies! Until a mere 20 years ago, and therefore it could not be properly integrated into educational systems. With the recent sudden explosion of brain information, we are already The educational system which labels a student for seeing a very rapid uptake and application of this day dreaming, are not good. As a little boy, I was information in education systems. a prisoners of others thoughts it too. It took me decades, to understand the mind map & unlock it for everyone. It is a mental abuse for the child if he is not allowed to daydream. SR: Can you please explain it in detail? I believe that within the next few years, we will see a global educational shift, in which all schools will have a Mental Literacy module incorporating information for the students. This information would be a huge amount of learning, thinking, creativity, memory skills, speed-reading, study skills, and the application TB: Most current methods of handling information of these mental literacy skills to all subject-areas and are based on the 19th Century linear, verbal and to all aspects of learning. monotonic model. This worked comfortably for the Industrial Age. It does not work so well in the age of This will bring about a tectonic shift in education and knowledge, creativity and intelligence. a positive future for our planet. Vol. 10 Issue 3 • MARCH 2019, Delhi NCR | 19