I have been a big fan of mind mapping and I used to teach my classes how to mind map. Many schools in Singapore do get their students to learn mind mapping through external agencies. But usually these efforts to teach mind mapping go to waste because the teachers in the school very rarely follow-up upon the training by not insisting that students make their own mind maps of what they have learned. Teachers even sabotaged these efforts by providing students with teacher-prepared notes.

Perhaps we can all gain by watching this video where the originator of mind maps himself, Tony Buzan, explain the thinking that goes on behind the use of a mind map. Enjoy.