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he School and Society 
The educational situation has nowhere been so 
clearly stated nor so graphically illustrated as in 
the odd hundred pages of Professor Joun DEWEY’s 
new book. The problem of elementary education 
is one that forces itself not only on teachers and 
school boards, but is felt with continuously grow- 
ing anxiety by the parents. The ‘fads and frills” 
of the Public School — Nature Study, Manual 
Training, Cooking, and Sewing—remain despite 
their critics, but they cannot be assimilated. Pro- 
fessor DEWEY gives a most luminous statement of 
the meaning of these branches for the school and 
for life. It has been his good fortune to have 
stepped out of the field of theoretical pedagogy 
and to stand upon the successful results of three 
years’ experimentation in the Elementary School 
of the University of Chicago. This school, insti- 
tuted as a laboratory of the Pedagogical Depart- 
ment, has been the subject of innumerable inqui- 
ties, and many unintelligent criticisms. The ideas 
behind it and the methods of applying them are 
Presented here in a style neither abstruse nor 
technical, Being originally lectures delivered 
before a popular audience, and reaching publica- 
tion as a result of the interest excited there, the 
public has the guarantee of their interest and com- 
prehensibility for all who feel the responsibility 
of bringing the meaning of life home to the child. 
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