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"A fascinating and provocative study of cultural and linguistic history, and of how various kinds of understanding that can be distinguished in that history are recapitulated in the developing minds of children".--NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW. "A compelling vision for today's uncertain... read more
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- Rousseau: Add a description of this character.
- Romantic
- Piaget
- Vygotsky
- Egan
- Rorty
- John Dewey
- Kierkegaard
- Philosophic
- Donald
- Olson
- Hayek
- Dick
- Bruner
- Gardner
- Tom
- Alice
- Cornford
- Schlegel
- Darwin
- Peter Rabbit
- Wordsworth
- Snell
- Thrasymachus
- Luria
- Macintyre
- Tyrone
- Lloyd
- Descartes
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Education is one of the greatest consumers of public money in the Western world, and it employs a larger workforce than almost any other social agency.
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- Kieran Egan (Author)
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- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 370
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