The Dog-Exercising Machine

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Children ranging in age from four to fourteen were invited to invent a dog-exercising machine. This book, with comments by Edward de Bono, is a selection of the results. What precisely is the function of the Thyristor GRS 3/40? Who would have thought of exercising a dog in a stationary position by attaching springs to each leg (result: dog 'pufed out')? If you could lay on thunder and lightning, would the dogs 'do it faster? No one looking at these drawings can fail to be impressed by the ingenuity and imagination of children when they are allowed a free hand. As Dr de Bono says, 'A child's drawing lies somewhere between poetry and reason and humour and art.' The remarkable thing about these children's inventions is that the reason is as great as the poetry, the art as strong as the humour. 'Look at the drawings in any way you like,' writes Dr de Bono. 'Generate your own comments. There is nothing sacred about the comments I have made. . . . For my part I am interested not so much... Tovább

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Children ranging in age from four to fourteen were invited to invent a dog-exercising machine. This book, with comments by Edward de Bono, is a selection of the results. What precisely is the function of the Thyristor GRS 3/40? Who would have thought of exercising a dog in a stationary position by attaching springs to each leg (result: dog 'pufed out')? If you could lay on thunder and lightning, would the dogs 'do it faster? No one looking at these drawings can fail to be impressed by the ingenuity and imagination of children when they are allowed a free hand. As Dr de Bono says, 'A child's drawing lies somewhere between poetry and reason and humour and art.' The remarkable thing about these children's inventions is that the reason is as great as the poetry, the art as strong as the humour. 'Look at the drawings in any way you like,' writes Dr de Bono. 'Generate your own comments. There is nothing sacred about the comments I have made. . . . For my part I am interested not so much in imparting any message but in rescuing the thinking process from the irrelevant complications that make it seem so artificial and boring. I would like to suggest with the help of these drawings that it is a fascinating and beautiful process.' Cover illustration by Michael Burns de Bono For copyright reasons this edition is not for sale in the USA Vissza