THE thinking method platform

CANCELLED

The Thinking Method Platform was been meant as a space where independent teachers who want to learn to write Thinking Method style courses can upload their material for public use, and for my free and personalised feedback, contributions and guidance. For this to work, new writers needed to take their writing as far as they could using the infrastructure I have created before using me personally. This is something new writers have consistently not done, as well as expecting me to overlook the rules and limitations established by the Platform in order to give them preferential treatment based on promises - something the Platform was set up to avoid, as was clearly communicated.

For years people have written me emails pages in length describing their motivations, but it seems that more often than not those motivations are about associating themselves to a project that has been so impactful for them, rather than actually working on it. After years of the same experiences, I’m afraid to announce that my patience has been worn thinner than I should have ever allowed it to, and I cannot justify giving more time and energy to the idea of so generously opening up the Language Transfer project. I have accepted that those who follow through with their ideas and promises are such a wild minority that I cannot possibly think to filter through them myself. I have also accepted that I myself need to continue to create new learning material, but that this cannot continue in the way it once did. I need real tangible support, support that at this stage I clearly deserve, in order to create the material that everybody wants.

I may offer my consultation in the future which I will charge for so that people take it more seriously, and I will share any courses I feel are “Thinking Method Style” rather than just “Socratic Style” (which is this Q&A system used and which many other methods use) - it was never my intention to promote the Socratic approach in itself which has as much potential to confuse as it does to enlighten, but rather the “Thinking Method” I have built around that approach.

I will continue to improve infrastructure for new writers (such as the guidebook) and to share and promote this way of learning generally, but I will no longer be offering my very limited resources to potential new writers so openly and generously when it is of clear detriment to the Language Transfer project as a whole.

Apologies for any inconvenience this may cause.