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THE SCHOOL AND SOCIETY
THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS
Agents THE CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
LONDON AND EDINBURGH
THE MARUZEN-KABUSHIKI-KAISHA
TOKYO, OSAKA, KYOTO
KARL W. HIERSEMANN
LEIPZIG
THE BAKER & TAYLOR COMPANY
NEW YORK
The SCHOOL and SOCIETY BEING THREE LECTURES by JOHN DEWEY
SUPPLEMENTED BY A STATEMENT OF THE UNIVERSITY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS CHICAGO, ILLINOIS
Copyright 1900 By John Dewey
All Rights Reserved
Eleventh ImpressionFirst Edition—1,000 copies. Printed November, 1899. Eleventh ImpressionSecond Impression—1,500 copies. Printed February, 1900. Eleventh ImpressionThird Impression—5,000 copies. Printed July, 1900. Eleventh ImpressionFourth Impression—2,500 copies. Printed June, 1904. Eleventh ImpressionFifth Impression—2,500 copies. Printed February, 1905. Eleventh ImpressionSixth Impression—1,000 copies. Printed August, 1907. Eleventh ImpressionSeventh Impression—1,000 copies. Printed September, 1909. Eleventh ImpressionEighth Impression—1,000 copies. Printed August, 1910. Eleventh ImpressionNinth Impression—1,000 copies. Printed August, 1911. Eleventh ImpressionTenth Impression—1,000 copies. Printed March, 1912. Eleventh ImpressionEleventh Impression—2,000 copies. Printed August, 1913.
Composed and Printed By The University of Chicago Press Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.
TO MRS. EMMONS BLAINE TO WHOSE INTEREST IN EDUCATIONAL REFORM THE APPEARANCE OF THIS BOOK IS DUE
CONTENTS
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
PUBLISHER'S NOTE
The three lectures presented in the following pages were delivered before an audience of parents and others interested in the University Elementary School, in the month of April of the year 1899. Mr. Dewey revised them in part from a stenographic report, and unimportant changes and the slight adaptations necessary for the press have been made in his absence. The lectures retain therefore the unstudied character as well as the power of the spoken word. As they imply more or less familiarity with the work of the Elementary School, Mr. Dewey's supplementary statement of this has been added.
AUTHOR'S NOTE
A second edition affords a grateful opportunity for recalling that this little book is a sign of the coöperating thoughts and sympathies of many persons. Its indebtedness to Mrs. Emmons Blaine is partly indicated in the dedication. From my friends, Mr. and Mrs. George Herbert Mead, came that interest, unflagging attention to detail, and artistic taste which, in my absence, remade colloquial remarks until they were fit to print, and then saw the results through the press with the present attractive result—a mode of authorship made easy, which I recommend to others fortunate enough to possess such friends.
It would be an extended paragraph which should list all the friends whose timely and persisting generosity has made possible the school which inspired and defined the ideas of these pages. These friends, I am sure, would be the first to recognize the peculiar appropriateness of especial mention of the names of Mrs. Charles R. Crane and Mrs. William R. Linn.
And the school itself in its educational work is a joint undertaking. Many have engaged in shaping it. The clear and experienced intelligence of my wife is wrought everywhere into its ​texture. The wisdom, tact and devotion of its instructors have brought about a transformation of its original amorphous plans into articulate form and substance with life and movement of their own. Whatever the issue of the ideas presented in this book, the satisfaction coming from the coöperation of the diverse thoughts and deeds of many persons in undertaking to enlarge the life of the child will abide.
January 5, 1900
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