In the twenty-first century, education needs to do more than treat students like empty chalices to be filled with the elixir of knowledge. In these days of rapid change, citizens need to know how to think and to reason to make informed choices, to adapt, they need to have at their disposal the tools to enable learning to continue throughout their lives. This amalgamation of Thinking Skills and Accelerating Learning helps provide pupils with the expertise for the modern world-and teachers with workable strategies to help them.