Education: How to Exercise Dogs and Minds

THE problem is not the most serious that mankind faces, but it is intriguing enough: How would you design a dog-exercising machine? As part of a research project on the way humans think, British Psychologist Edward de Bono recently gave that assignment to readers of the British education magazine Where. The first 72 answers were from children aged four to 14. attending schools in both the United Kingdom and its former overseas territories. The unedited results, along with De Bono's commentary, are contained in an offbeat and fascinating new book entitled, naturally. The Dog Exercising Machine (Simon & Schuster; $3.95).

Although often...