Education Dewey became involved in education while he was Secretary of the Board of Regents. He pushed for an important role for libraries in education. He thought that libraries were especially important for adult and life-long education. The present movement for adult education which ought to be called Home Education, is to reach into the homes of the cuntry and to induce both yung and old who can no longer giv their main time to skools to go on with education by means of libraries, museums, study clubs and extension teaching, including lectures, sermons, etc. In an Address to the Convocation of the University of the State of New York, Albany on the first of July 1888, Dewey discusses the importance of life-long education and the role libraries have to play in this.
Education is a matter of a lifetime.
We provide the schools for the first ten or fifteen years and are only come to the threshold of seeing our duty to the rest of life. We must struggle to teach our masses to read in our schools. Profits from the Lake Placid Club were put into the Lake Placid Club Education Foundation and were partly used for the development of future Classification editions. The Lake Placid Club was a very good business. That the 1932 Winter Olympics were held at Lake Placid is largely attributed to Godfrey Dewey, Dewey's son.