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[This is one of the finalists in the 2023 book review contest, written by an ACX reader who will remain anonymous until after voting is done. I\u2019ll be posting about one of these a week for several months. When you\u2019ve read them all, I\u2019ll ask you to vote for a favorite, so remember which ones you liked]

\u201cThe promise of a new educational theory\u201d, writes Kieran Egan, \u201chas the magnetism of a newspaper headline like \u2018Small Earthquake in Chile: Few Hurt\u2019\u201d.

But \u2014 could a new kind of school make the world rational?

I discovered the work of Kieran Egan in a dreary academic library. The book I happened to find \u2014 Getting it Wrong from the Beginning \u2014 was an evisceration of progressive schools. As I worked at one at the time, I got a kick out of this.

To be sure, broadsides against progressivist education aren\u2019t exactly hard to come by. But Egan\u2019s account went to the root, deeper than any critique I had found. Better yet, as I read more, I discovered he was against traditionalist education, too \u2014\xa0and that he had constructed a new paradigm that incorporated the best of both.

https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/your-book-review-the-educated-mind