Kieran Egan

Kieran Egan (22 May 1942 – 12 May 2022) was an Irish educational philosopher and a student of the classics, anthropology, cognitive psychology, and cultural history.[1] He has written on issues in education and child development, with an emphasis on the uses of imagination and the stages (Egan called them "understandings") that occur during a person's intellectual development. He has questioned the work of Jean Piaget and progressive educators, notably Herbert Spencer and John Dewey. He taught at Simon Fraser University.[2] His major work is the 1997 book The Educated Mind. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kieran_Egan_(philosopher)