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Your Book Review: The Educated Mind

Astral Codex Ten Podcast

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The Importance of Using Ironic to Balance Understanding

Geeks seem to be natural systematizers, and creating logical systems is a very philosophic thing. Egan's big complaint is that schools don't recognize the more obviously emotional, the more story-centric kinds of understanding. Even if I had the chance to send my super geeky son to an Egan school, I'm not sure I'd feel comfortable doing so.

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