How long does it take to read The Educated Mind?
Kieran Egan
The Educated Mind by Kieran Egan takes about 5 hours 36 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 5 hours 36 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1997. 305 pages, about 83,875 words.
12 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 9 hours 19 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 36 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 30 minutes |
The page count is the median across 3 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The Educated Mind offers a bold and revitalizing new vision for today's uncertain educational system. Kieran Egan reconceives education, taking into account how we learn. He proposes the use of particular "intellectual tools"—such as language or literacy—that shape how we make sense of the world. These mediating tools generate successive kinds of understanding: somatic, mythic, romantic, philosophical, and ironic. Egan's account concludes with practical proposals for how teaching and curriculum can be changed to reflect the way children learn.
Subjects: Civilization, Western, Cognition and culture, Education, Educational anthropology, Educational sociology, History
