page_title: The School and Society
section_title: Reception
hierarchical_section_title: The School and Society / Reception
caption_attribution_description: English: Copyright page with impressions history from early edition of The School and Society
context_page_description: The School and Society: Being Three Lectures was John Dewey's first published work of length on education. A highly influential publication in its own right, it would also lay the foundation for his later work. In the lectures included in the initial publication, Dewey proposes a psychological, social, and political framework for progressive education. Notably, this includes collaborative practical experimentation as the central element of school work. He argues that the progressive approach is both an inevitable product of the Industrial Revolution and a natural fit with the psychology of children. A final chapter details some of the experiments done at the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools.
  Articles in the 1915 edition extended his argument with reprints of Dewey's work published in the Elementary School Record.
context_section_description: The 1900 edition was warmly received and widely translated and published. The book had almost immediate popularity and influence, with three printings within its first year, comprising 7,500 copies between them.
  By the time of the 1915 edition, the Elementary School Record went so far as to say:
  It is given only to a few men to write educational classics. Since Spencer wrote his essays there has not been a more important contribution to educational reform than Dewey's School and Society.
caption: Impressions history from copyright page of late impression of 1900 edition.
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