Kieran Egan has one of the most original, penetrating, and capacious minds in education today.  This book provides the best introduction to his important body of work.  "-

Howard Gardner, author of Multiple Intelligences: The Theory In Practice

Kieran Egan writes with clarity and wit on one of the most crucial issues of our time.  The school train, Egan warns us, is lost in a confusion of philosophical dead-end tracks; we need new directions, new signs and signals to help us rethink the journey.  In Egan's imaginative portrayal of 'the development of understanding,' he gives us an entirely new map, for immediate use.  If we begin by reinventing the teacher as storyteller and recognizing the children as the intuitive poets and dramatists they are, we will be ready to join Egan in his extraordinary vision of sensible schooling available to all."

-Vivian Paley, author of Kwanzaa & Me: A Teacher's Story

The University of Chicago Press

ISBN 0-226-19036-6