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In The Educated Mind, Kieran Egan claims that our thinking about education
is about as sharp as 16th-century views on inflation. Egan offers a new theory
of psychology and education. He claims that we acquire five distinctive kinds of
understanding—somatic, mythic, romantic, philosophic and ironic. The book
is ambitious, literate and entertaining. Read it. Published by University of
Chicago Press, £11.25, ISBN 0226190390.