(...) being right all the time acquires a huge importance in education, and there is this terror of being wrong. The ego is so tied to being right that later on in life you are reluctant to accept that you are ever wrong, because you are defending not the idea but your self-esteem. (...) this terror of being wrong means that people have enormous difficulties in changing ideas.

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Edward Charles Francis Publius de Bono was born in Malta on 19 May 1933.

Edward de Bono (born 19 May 1933) is a Maltese physician author inventor and consultant. He originated the term lateral thinking[citation needed] wrote the book Six Thinking Hats and is a proponent of the deliberate teaching of thinking as a subject in schools.