A children's toy is a simple but very effective means to teach children the basics of analytics.By simply sorting out the child learns in practice that some objects are different from others.The fact that all objects differ from each other in form and color, is well seen and known to a child. But the knowledge that objects are different does not mean much to the child. Well, they are different from each other, so what? Unless he begins to align the holes with the objects so that the objects fit inside the box. And at this moment, the child realizes that the difference between a triangle, a trapezoid,a star and other figures has practical significance. And the next step the child will realize that the rhombus and the square, despite the fact that they have four corners and equal sides, are still different figures, since the small circumstance i.e. the angle that the sides of objects form, is a significant qualification difference that cannot be ignored as well as the number of sides of a triangle or a star. And then the child will learn that, despite the fact that the oval and the circle are similar to each other, they are still different figures.
So it is in people's lives. Most people do not even think about how different the various processes in public life are, how these processes are related to each other and how they affect the lives of all people in general and the life of an individual in particular. To identify how processes differ, how they are related to each other and what consequences this has for society is the sphere of professional activity of various analysts, political scientists, and politicians. And it is enough to turn on the TV to be convinced of the professional incompetence of the vast majority of representatives of previously mentioned categories. And with a certain similarity of processes, they very often can not understand how this or that process differs,being like a child who can not distinguish a rhombus from a square, an oval from a circle, or a circle from an octahedron.But it is not uncommon for them to take one process for another, as if they see five separate, unrelated triangles, unable to understand that they see a star. However, at present we live in a rapidly changing world, surrounded by such a powerful information flow that no one, even the most professional analysts, can manage to orient the entire mass of people so that people do not suffer from certain processes in the life of society and support those processes that are objectively good. Life requires that all people have analytical abilities, so that they can navigate themselves in a turbulent, constantly changing world. "Many things are incomprehensible to us, not because our notions are weak, but because these things are not included in the circle of our notions.- said Kozma Prutkov .